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Book Review: Forgotten Lore by Blanket Fort Writers
Rhonda Parrish runs a wonderful virtual hangout for writers and readers on Discord, called The Blanket Fort, and last year she and six other writers put together this anthology of short stories based on the theme of Forgotten Lore. MLD Curelas starts the anthology on a strong note with Nickel-Plated Demon. Ex-cop turned pawnshop owner,…
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3 Book Review: The Martian Dairies Trilogy by H E Wilburson
The Day of the Martians A new mission from Mars threatens Earth in this exciting sequel to H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds. It’s been ten years since the first Martian invasion, when the blood hungry, tripod traveling aliens were defeated by bacteria. The narrator from the original novel is now living in…
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Book Review: Inheriting Her Ghosts by S H Cooper
Forty something Eudora Fellowes defies Victorian convention in many ways. She’s single by choice, prefers the company of her wolfhounds, Cerberus and Black Shuck, to other humans, and she often wears trousers rather than dresses. When her great-aunt leaves her the seaside manor of High Hearth, Eudora looks forward to a quiet country idyll. Unfortunately,…
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2 Book Review: Idriel’s Children and Night of Ash by Hayley Reese Chow
Idriel’s Children It’s been 28 years since Kaia and Klaus’s epic battle against Idriel’s dark forces, and much has changed in Okarria. However, when enemies at the borders call the Dragon and Shadow Heirs away, it leaves their children – fire blessed son, Zephyr, and shadow gifted daughter, Aza – to travel to the forest…
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Bookouture On Tour: The Water Witch by Jessica Thorne
About the book: Sitting side by side on the clifftop, he turns to her solemnly and says, ‘The water witch is real.’ She rolls her eyes and grins, teasing him. ‘Sure. A psycho mermaid. Got it.’ But now he’s gone forever… will she find the truth beneath the waves? Brittany, France. Ariadne Walker’s fiancé Simon…
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Book Review: The Quiet Game by Rami Ungar
These five tales to chill your bones mightn’t be quite as dark as the Master of Fear’s more recent work, but they’re highly entertaining and a great way to spend an hour. Addict opens the collection with an interesting second person point of view take on addiction. The focus is sex addiction, and a main…
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Book Tour: The Old Dragon’s Head by Justin Newland
About the book Constructed of stone and packed earth, the Great Wall of 10,000 li protects China’s northern borders from the threat of Mongol incursion. The wall is also home to a supernatural beast: the Old Dragon. The Old Dragon’s Head is the most easterly point of the wall, where it finally meets the sea.…
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Book Review: The Pure World Comes by Rami Ungar
The Pure World Comes is the story of a young woman, Shirley Dobbins, who works as a maid in London during the late nineteenth century. After the unfortunate sudden demise of her employers, she is taken on by the new guardian to the master and the mistress of the house. Sir Joseph is an eccentric…
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Book Review: Lucretia’s Hum by Priscilla Bettis
This story was published in Among the Headstones, an anthology of graveyard themed stories edited by Rayne Hall. Lucretia is a lonely young woman who hears the industrial hum, and seeks to escape it each night by sleeping in a graveyard where the bodies are left on the surface to rot and be predated. There’s…
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Book Tour: Thunder Road by Colin Holmes
About the book In this gamble, more than a few poker chips are at stake. When an Army Air Force Major vanishes from his Top Secret job at the Fort Worth airbase in the summer of 1947, down-on-his-luck former Ranger Jefferson Sharp is hired to find him, because the Major owes a sizable gambling debt…