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Buddy Read & Rant #6 with Jonathan Pongratz: Camp Carnage by Joshua Winning and Elliot Cross
Hello Blogging World! Iseult: Hello campers, it is I, Iseult, mistress of dark fiction and things that go bump in the night. Jonny : And this is your camp-hating nerd friend Jonny! I have a healthy dislike of camping, well that and creepy basements, which you can find in my Reaper novel here. Let the campy slashy…
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Book Review: Dead Voices by Katharine Arden
Imagine a trip to the Overlook hotel, for a middle grade audience, and then turn the dial up to 11. You get Dead Voices. Our three young hero’s from Small Spaces, Ollie, Coco and Brian, are back. Two months after their terrifying Halloween school trip, Ollie’s dad wins a ski vacation, so off they go…
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Buddy Read & Rant #5 with Jonathan Pongratz: Dead Voices by Katherine Arden
Hello Blogging World! Iseult: Hello all, Iseult here. I love to read and write horror, fantasy and science fiction, and rant about it afterwards. There’s no one better to rant with about books (or anything at all, to be honest), than my bestie, Jonny. He’s also a wonderful writer, so BUY HIS BOOK! Buy it, or…
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Book Review: Small Spaces by Katharine Arden
Small Spaces is my June buddy read with the wonderful Mr Pongratz over at Jaunts and Haunts. Click here to read his review. What is it about scarecrows and cornfields that makes them so scary? If they only had a brain, huh? Ollie hasn’t been the same since her mother died. She’s not looking forward…
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Buddy Read & Rant #4 with Jonathan Pongratz: Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
Hello Again Blogging World! Iseult: Well hullo! Smiling horror writer, Iseult, here to offer you the deal of a lifetime. Only three more days to avail of the low low launch price of 99c for my horror novel, 7 Days in Hell. Jonny : And this is Jonny, your scarecrow-phobic lover of all things creepy! You…
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Book Review: Shutter by Courtney Alameda
Shutter is my buddy read for May with Jonny @Jaunts and Haunts, and I’m so disappointed that I didn’t love it as much as he did. Read Jonny’s review of Shutter here. 17 year old Micheline Helsing is near the end of her training as part of an elite group of soldiers that hunt ghosts…
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Buddy Read & Rant #3 with Jonathan Pongratz: Trigger and Shutter by Courtney Alameda
For our buddy read this month, Jonny and I read YA horror novel, Shutter, and it’s prequel short story, Trigger. Click on the book names to read Jonny’s reviews of Trigger and Shutter here. Click on the names of the books to read my reviews of Trigger and Shutter. This is the first book that…
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Book Review: Trigger by Courtney Alameda
A short story prequel to the young adult novel, Shutter, Trigger introduces readers to Micheline Helsing and the hunters of the undead. 15 year old Micheline inherited her Tetrachromatic eyes from her mother, allowing her to see ghosts and trap them in mirrors. She’s also being trained to take over from her commander father, and…
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Book Review: Pax by Sara Pennypacker
In a strange, alternate United States of America, on the brink of war, a boy tries to find the pet fox he was forced to abandon. Peter’s father has gone to war, but before he left him in the care of his curmudgeonly old grandfather, he forced him to release his beloved pet fox, Pax,…
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Book Review: Thornhill by Pam Smy
Drawings and a diary combine to produce a moving story of neglected youth. In 2017, Ella has just moved into a house across from the ruins of Thornhill house, which used to be an orphanage in the 1980’s. In 1982, Mary writes about her traumatic experiences in Thornhill. This story is deceptively simple. Ella’s story…