Book Reviews

The Toxic Avenger novelization is one of the rare cases where a book based on a movie actually manages to capture the wild, unhinged spirit of its source material. Written by Adam Cesare, who has made a name for himself with his energetic and fast-paced horror fiction, this novel takes everything …

Author A. Rushby (The Stand In 2022) takes readers on a journey into the dark underbelly of Georgian-era London with Slashed Beauties. In an attempt to entice male medical students to study female anatomy in eighteenth-century London, ultrarealistic wax figures of women are created – otherwise known as anatomical Venuses. …

It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your children are? Playground: Child of Divorce (COD) is the prequel to 2022’s infamously viral TikTok hit, Playground, taking place a few years before Geraldine’s twisted arena was fully built. Author Aron Beauregard has returned to bring readers once again into Geraldine Borden’s …

Time travel is something I totally geek out about. If I hear about a tv show, a movie or a book with the concept of time travel, I am so there. Additionally, I am a huge fan of historical fiction books. So when I read the synopsis of Hayley Gelfuso’s …

One Yellow Eye, is the debut novel by Leigh Radford. I always look forward to reading debut books. I know that the finished product is truly a labor of love. An author has put in so much of themselves into writing this book, which usually makes it a great read. …

I have my “tried and true authors,’ my “go to” authors if you will. However, I am always on the lookout for new ones to add to my repertoire. Glass Girls by Danie Shokoohi is a book that intrigued me immediately after reading the synopsis. It is the debut novel …

There’s something funny going on in the town of Kettle Springs, and it’s not just the town’s clown mascot, Frendo. As Quinn moves to Kettle Springs for her senior year of school, she befriends the “troubled” popular clique. Corn isn’t the only thing that grows as tensions rise between the …

Backwaters: 12 Murky Tales, is a book I’ll admit, I hadn’t heard anything about. I was contacted by Lee personally to review this book, based on reviews I have done for others. I thought that was a really a cool thing for him to do. What intrigued me about this …

Contains minor spoilers. Released in 2022, Fluids is the self-published debut novel of musician and writer, May Leitz. Fluids is an extreme horror novel that promises to upset and shock. From a cover marred with trigger warnings to a brash and caustic tone throughout, Leitz promises to leave a bad …

Reading is such a beautiful thing as it can elicit a wide range of emotions that will have the reader pondering long after the pages end. While anyone can write a book, it takes an author with a keen eye to transform a simple story into one that can all …