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The elves come for two things: war and wives. In both cases, they come for death. Three thousand years ago, humans were hunted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed. Now, for centuries, the elves have taken a young woman from Luella's village to be their Human Queen. To be chosen … Continue reading Review: ‘A Deal with the Elf King’ Elise Kova
A frozen girlA haunted townA deadly challengeSix StoriesWhich one is true? In the wake of the 'Beast from the East' cold snap that ravaged the UK in 2018, a grisly discovery was made in a ruin on the Northumbrian coast. Twenty-four-year-old Vlogger, Elizabeth Barton, had been barricaded inside what locals refer to as 'The Vampire Tower', … Continue reading Review: ‘Beast’ Matt Wesolowski
As I've mentioned in previous posts, I just can't stop buying books. The rate at which I buy books far exceeds the rate at which I read them. So when I started having to do this... ...and this... ...to fit books onto my shelves, what did I decide to do? Read some of these books … Continue reading Bookish DIY project
Take a tour through the horror paperback novels of the 1970s and 80s . . . if you dare. Page through dozens and dozens of amazing book covers featuring well-dressed skeletons, evil dolls, and knife-wielding killer crabs! Read shocking plot summaries that invoke devil worship, satanic children, and haunted real estate! Horror author and vintage … Continue reading Review: ‘Paperbacks from Hell’ Grady Hendrix
"They're just kids ... It's only a game." That's what Barbara, a lovely twenty-year-old babysitter told herself when she awoke bound and gagged. But the knots were tight and painful and the children would not let her go. "They're just kids ... It's only a game," she told herself again. But the terror was real ... … Continue reading DNF: ‘Let’s Go Play at the Adams’ Mendal W. Johnson
Like most book bloggers, I have a seemingly insurmountable TBR pile. Am I gonna read it down to a respectable size before buying more books? Hell no. Here are my latest book buys, all of which are skipping the queue and jumping to the top of my TBR pile. Let's Go Play at the Adams', … Continue reading Latest book buys
As a work of post-tsunami literature and a protest against the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, this novel is of utmost importance to this moment, a powerful rebuke to the Imperial system and a sensitive, deeply felt depiction of the lives of Japan's most vulnerable people. Kazu is dead. Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year … Continue reading Review: ‘Tokyo Ueno Station’ Yu Miri
WWW Wednesday is hosted by Sam over at Taking on a World of Words. Anyone can take part and all you need to do is answer the following three Ws: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish reading? What do you think you’ll read next? What I'm currently reading Paperbacks from Hell by … Continue reading WWW Wednesday – 12th August 2020
Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a good-bye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to … Continue reading Review: ‘The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires’ Grady Hendrix
On Christmas Eve in 1988, seven-year-old Alfie Marsden vanished in the Wentshire Forest Pass, when a burst tyre forced his father, Sorrel, to stop the car. Leaving the car to summon the emergency services, Sorrel returned to find his son gone. No trace of the child, nor his remains, have ever been found. Alfie Marsden … Continue reading Review: ‘Changeling’ Matt Wesolowski
