We’ve all heard the legends of the extreme-horror ten-level house, if you make it to the end, you’ll receive a cash bonus. When we look for such a house, we find it’s an urban legend. Legend Has It by D. J. Slater is a horror novel that explores the age-old […]
The second book of the Athena Club involves the main female characters traveling far from their London home to stop a fiendish scheme. The Athena Club consists of the daughters of Dr. Jekyll (Mary Jekyll) and Mr. Hyde (Diana Hyde). Also, the poisonous daughter of mad biologist named Beatrice, the […]
Visionary Investigations, book 1.5 of Dead and Back Again series by C. Rae D’Arc, is a short collection of three novellas set in the world of Novel. Novel was introduced in the Haunting Romance trilogy, and Inspector Specter was the first in this new series. Visionary Investigations details the mysteries […]
In 1714, young Adeline (Addie) LaRue makes a pact with a dark god to live a life greater than her destiny in a provincial French town. She gains, with her new freedom, a lack of identity. People cannot remember Addie for a long period of time, certainly if they lose […]
Ember Weathers is a bookstore owner on the island of Devil’s Island, Maine. She dreams of adventure and escape from her small town. Nothing ever interesting happens to her. That is, except she has an invisible dragon that only she can see. At the start of the novel, a mysterious […]
Heather Ashle’s An Heir of Realms is the first book of the Realm Rider Series. The novel is a multi-world, multi-POV, epic fantasy of soldiers who ride dragons, protecting a world. A brief summary. In the main world of D’Erenelle, Rhoswen and Thane are niece and nephew to the king. […]
Melisandre (Melissa) Roberts is a new homeowner of a wonderful house on a decent-sized lot. Her best friend, Alexandra, sends over a handsome man, Ryan, to help her move in. Ryan is not only handy around the house, he’s friendly. In addition, Melissa’s acing her classes at college and enjoying […]
Many fairytale anthologies focus on the princesses, so it’s a welcome surprise to find a collection of stories on a fable not often represented, “The Three Little Pigs.” Ye Olde Dragon Books has produced their fifth in the series of take-a-fairytale-in-an-unusual-direction series. The short stories contained in Trouble Comes in […]
Eleanor Bourg Nicholson’s novel, A Bloody Habit, is set in the early 1900s, directly after Bram Stoker published Dracula. In the novel, Londoners are talking about the Stoker book, and the main character, John Kemp, is currently reading it. Kemp is a lawyer and above such foolishness as vampires, but […]
Stefanie Gilmour’s Fear the Wolf is the initial entry in the Alex Steward series. The novel tells the story of a woman, Alex, in her twenties at odds with her lycanthropy. Alex finds herself in a traumatic experience when her inner beast first emerges. Having no idea she was a […]