Category: Book Reviews
-
Review: ANNA K by Jenny Lee
Thank you so much Book Sparks and Flatiron for my free copy. Description: At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and dogs); she has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend, Alexander W.; and she has always made her Korean-American father…
-
Review: SKINWRAPPER by Stephen Kozeniewski
Thank you Night Worms and Sinister Grin Press for my free copy. Description: A single word strikes fear into the hearts of even the most experienced starship crews…Aboard the freighter Blue Whale, a young girl’s day begins like any other: texting her friends while her parents bicker about breakfast. Then, with a loud, sickening pop,…
-
Review: WHISPERS IN THE DARK by Laurel Hightower
Thank you to the Night Worms and JournalStone Publishing for my free copy. Description: Rose McFarland is a trained killer–a Memphis S.W.A.T. sniper with a secret. Her team knows about the burn scars that lurk under her clothes, a legacy of the house fire that killed her father and brother sixteen years before. Her supervisors…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Review: SERVED COLD by Alan Baxter
Thank you so much Sadie, Kallie, Gray Matter Press, and the author for my free copy. Description: Collected together for the first time ever, these sixteen provocative and intensely chilling tales venture into the depths of the darkest and most shadowy places where unspeakable horrors are the predators and we the willing prey. Prepare for an…
-
Review: FISHNET by Kristin Innes
Thank you so much Gallery Books for providing my copy. Description: Rona Leonard was only twenty-years-old when she walked out of her sister Fiona’s flat and disappeared. Six years later—worn down by a tedious job, childcare, and an aching absence in her life—Fiona’s mundane existence is blown apart by the revelation that Rona had been…
-
Review: WALK THE DARKNESS DOWN by John Boden
Thank you so much to the Night Worms and the author for my copy. Description: Some things are older than time. Older than darkness.-Levi is a monstrous man—made of scars and scary as hell, he’s glutted on ghosts and evolving to carry out the dark wishes of the ancient whispers in his head. He’s building…
-
Review: THE REDDENING by Adam Nevill
Thank you so much to the author for my copy. Description: Lifestyle journalist Katrine escaped past traumas by moving to a coast renowned for seaside holidays and natural beauty. But when a vast hoard of human remains and prehistoric artefacts is discovered in nearby Brickburgh, a hideous shadow engulfs her life. Helene, a disillusioned lone…