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Buddy Read & Rant #12 with Jonathan Pongratz: Parachute by Holly Rae Garcia
Hello Blogging World! Iseult Hi, I’m Iseult and I come from the dimension of transparent spiders and unfettered plant growth. Jonny And I’m Jonny, lover of colorful things and parachutes as long as I’m on the ground and not jumping out of a plane! (Buy Jonny’s amazing books here – Iseult) This buddy read and…
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Book Review: Snake by Rami Ugar
After his girlfriend is kidnapped, a disturbed teenager goes on a brutal killing spree in order to get her back. This is a monster of a book, which is perhaps appropriate given it’s subject matter. At 577 pages, it’s a considerable time commitment to read about unlikable characters doing despicable things. Thankfully, for most of…
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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: Do You Get What you Pray For by O R Lea
For 24 years Alma has been haunted by scapegoat, a terrifying goat headed man, but no one believes that he exists outside of her imagination. After moving to a new town to start a new life and a new job, Alma’s new friends start dying. Can she finally persuade others that scapegoat is real and,…
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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 Review: The Sun Sets Nonetheless by Priscilla Bettis
This short story was published in The Vampire Connoisseur, an anthology of vampire fiction edited by Todd Sullivan. Told in first person by an unnamed narrator, this story focuses on a man alone after the loss of his wife and son. Once more Bettis excels in her power of description and ability to create atmosphere.…
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Buddy Read & Rant #10 with Jonathan Pongratz: The Haunting of Trinity House by Travis Liebert
Hello Blogging World! Jonny Hey Everyone, this is Jonny, purveyor of all things paranormal. Let’s get our spook on! (Buy Jonny’s amazing books here – Iseult) Iseult Hello, I’m Iseult, successfully haunting my house for the past six years. This buddy read and rant is for The Haunting of Trinity House by Travis Liebert. Blurb: He’s always…
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Book Review: Save Game by Joseph Sale
The author claims this book is his answer to Ernest Cline’s ‘Ready Player One’. I say it is the book ‘Ready Player One’ wishes it could have been. Levi lives in Birmingham in the UK. He wanted to be a lawyer, but after falling in love with computer games, he decided to become a game…
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Book Review: Return to the Black Gate by Joseph Sale
A bittersweet end to the series with this tour de force from mister mindflayer, Joseph Sale. On another world, known as Nekyia, its prince returns a changed man. Gone are his physical eyes, but with his third eye he can see the doors between all the worlds are now open and something older than the…
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Book Review: Beyond the Black Gate by Joseph Sale
An engrossing dark fantasy with epic world building and lyrical prose, Beyond the Black Gate is a completely different kettle of fish to its predecessor. Craig Smiley has made it beyond the Black Gate, but it’s not the paradise he was promised. Angry at his betrayal, Smiley decides to do what any self respecting serial…