H. L. Burke’s third book in her Superhero Rehabilitation series is Reborn. In this sequence of books, superheroes (called sables) fight supervillains as expected, but the novel treats its heroic characters as adults in adult situations. The sables work for a larger organization called DOSA, which sponsors a program to […]
I became aware of Marisha Pessl’s Night Film from an article suggesting interesting settings in thriller books. The concept of a reclusive film director, his avant-garde offerings, and a potential murder in his family was exciting and interesting. The lengthy page count kept me away for a while, but I […]
E. M. Lund’s The Urbex Trip explores the idea of a group of twenty-somethings encountering something haunted while enjoying an URBan EXploration. Urban exploration is the concept of visiting and documenting (usually with images) a human-constructed, abandoned building. In the book’s case, eight people travel to a decades-abandoned luxury resort […]
The third, and possibly end of a first trilogy, of the Alex Steward series, is entitled Free the Wolf. Alex is a homeless citizen of Hopewell, living off the charity of her friend Emma and hanging around Hell’s Bells with her other friends, Trish and Nate. She’s also a werewolf. […]
Rory Blake lives in the world of Rime, a world where the gifted, those with magical abilities, are sent, not to flourish, but to survive. Filled with disease, lawlessness, and a brutal winter’s chill, the number one rule of Rime is to look out for oneself. Emmett Santos, also a […]
Seven years ago, I read and reviewed Merona Grant and the Lost Tomb of Golgotha (review) a pulp fiction homage to the adventure tales of yesteryear. The book was a tip of the hat to another bullwhip carrying adventurer, but it was uniquely its own story. I loved it, and […]
The debut novel by Tabitha Potts, The House of Dust and Shadows, is a gothic thriller with all the right beats: family secrets, mysterious apparitions, and crumbling mansions. The novel starts with the discovery of a body, but the corpse is only one piece of this multi-threaded novel. From there, […]
Leaving university life in London behind, Sam travels to the island of Beryon to determine his future. He lives with his Aunt Alva and works at her cafe. At first, Sam finds peace collecting sea glass on the beach. He meets an islander friend named Eowyn, and a very special […]
She Waits Where Shadows Gather is the debut novel of Michelle Tang, a new voice in the horror genre. I had read her previous novella DuMort (a Shirley Jackson nominee) and was captivated by its gripping plot, complex characters, and delightful twist at the end. She Waits Where Shadows Gather […]
A quick summary of this novel is that a woman who has barricaded herself in her apartment during a zombie and vampire apocalypse for 187 days emerges to find a world in chaos. I’ve read another novel by author Jodi Jenson in a different genre and enjoyed it. I was […]