Review: The Haunted Trail by John C. Lukegord
At first impressions, The Haunted Trail seems to be a a smorgasbord of mismatched […]
Review: Skeletal by Katherine Hayton ★★★★★
Set in New Zealand’s gateway to the South, Christchurch, this New Adult Urban Horror is a brilliantly sinister and completely original story of despair, darkness and the horrors of teenage life in a broken home.
You won’t read anything like Skeletal anywhere. Forget Carrie, and her weird religious-driven telekinetics, or Christine, and her firestarting habits. Forget Gone Girl’s Amy and her psychotics. Compared to Skeletal, these unbridled female psyches would seem like a picnic to Daina Harrow, our protagonist. Daina’s life is at its absolute limits of stress, and not […]
Review: Everything I Know About Zombies, I Learned in Kindergarten by Kevin Wayne Williams ★★★★★
Without scaring off genre readers, Everything I Know could be classified as a literary novel. Williams is an expert with dialect and the inner city setting. Leticia is a fully-realized protagonist, both mature […]
Review: Masque: Choices by Caridad Martin
Billed as a “fresh retelling” of the classic book The Phanton of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Caridad Martin has tapped into the public domain treasure trove and settled on adding to the overflowing list of Phantom “adaptations” available online.
It’s a given that any book that retells a classic story must be incredibly different from the original in order to be acceptable as a work of the author. With Masque:Choices, it’s hard to really say that this has been achieved with the overall plot as such, but certainly the style and writing itself is lively and entertaining, adding […]
Review: Demon in the Window by Judah Swann
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Supernatural Hero & The Witches by Eran Gadot
Supernatural Hero & The Witches by Eran Gadot is the follow-up to the award-winning Supernatural Hero. The first book follows Andy, a protypical nerd, who is bullied mercilessly by seemingly everyone in his life. When his beloved grandfather dies, Andy’s gifted with the power to see and talk to the dead. Andy uses his supernatural abilities to win the girl and go from zero to hero.
Now in book two, Andy’s the school hero with his girlfriend by his side, as well as the ghost of his grandfather who helps him along the way. This time he needs to […]
The Hangman By Dee Rose
Kente Cromwell is murdered for committing adultery with a neighbor’s wife and as a result, given demonic powers, freeing himself of Purgatory in order to return to Earth and seek avengement for his death. But a terrible war has broken out on Earth between good and evil and he will have to make a choice: to join forces with the demon who brought him back, as one of many soldiers who follow him including a band of vampires, or become a vampire slayer with the angel he […]