Category: Advance Copy
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Book Review: DARK ACROSS THE BAY by Ania Ahlborn
Spotlight & Review Ania Ahlborn is one of my favorite authors, so I am extremely honored to review her latest creation, Dark Across the Bay. This novel is only available through Earthling Publications as a deluxe hardcover, but it is worth every bit of the hefty $50 price tag. In the acknowledgments, which I always…
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Review: THE BRIGHT LANDS by John Fram
Thank you to Hanover Square Press for my free copy. If you haven’t read my interview with John Fram on Tor Nightfire, click here – he’s the cat’s pajamas! Description: The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, an unremitting fear grips…
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Review: THE GOLDEN CAGE by Camilla Läckberg
Thank you so much Knopf and Abby from Crime by the Book for my free copy. Description: Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past. When Jack needs help launching a new company,…
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Review: TRUE CRIME by Samantha Kolesnik
Thank you so much Night Worms and Grindhouse Press for my free copy. Description: Suzy and her brother, Lim, live with their abusive mother in a town where the stars don’t shine at night. Once the abuse becomes too much to handle, the two siblings embark on a sordid cross-country murder spree beginning with their…
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Review: WE ARE MONSTERS by Brian Kirk
Thank you Night Worms and Flame Tree Press for my free copy. Description: Some doctors are sicker than their patients. When a troubled psychiatrist loses funding to perform clinical trials on an experimental cure for schizophrenia, he begins testing it on his asylum s criminally insane, triggering a series of side effects that opens the…
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Review: MY DARK VANESSA by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Thank you so much William Morrow for my free copy. Description: 2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused…
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Review: DOCILE by K.M. Szpara
Thank you so much Tor Books for my free copy. Description: There is no consent under capitalism. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of…
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Review: THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES by Grady Hendrix
Thank you so much Quirk Books for my free copy. Description: Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her…
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Blog Tour: THE DEAD GIRLS CLUB by Damien Angelica Walters
Thank you so much to Crooked Lane Books for my free copy. Description: Red Lady, Red Lady, show us your face… In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit…
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Blog Tour: LAST SUMMER by Kerry Lonsdale
Thank you so much TLC Book Tours and Amazon Publishing for my copy. Description: Lifestyle journalist Ella Skye remembers every celebrity she interviewed, every politician she charmed between the sheets, and every socialite who eyed her with envy. The chance meeting with her husband, Damien; their rapid free fall into love; and their low-key, intimate…