Rating: 4 out of 5 Ali Seay’s thriller novella Go Down Hard introduces us to Jack and Meg. Each is a serial killer. Each lives out in the middle of nowhere. Each has their own reason for killing–for Jack it…
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Review: “The Silent Places,” Skyla Dawn Cameron
Rating: 5 out of 5 I finally turned in the last of this semester’s classwork, so I immediately started reading Skyla Dawn Cameron’s The Silent Places. I love her other books in different genres, so I was looking forward to…
Review: “Jane Doe,” Victoria Helen Stone
Rating: 5 out of 5 Sure, it’s become more common lately to delve into the minds of sociopaths in our fiction. We’re fascinated by these people and want to understand how they do what they do. In Victoria Helen Stone’s…
Review: “Camp Slaughter,” Sergio Gomez
Rating: 2 out of 5 Maybe I should learn not to pick up books that Amazon algorithms recommend to me. Sergio Gomez’s Camp Slaughter isn’t bad, but it isn’t particularly good, either. Lakewood Cabin is advertised as the most secluded…
Review: “Devouring Dark,” Alan Baxter
Rating: 5 out of 5 Alan Baxter’s Devouring Dark introduces us to Matt MacLeod, a man with a strange darkness inside of him. If he goes too long without letting it out, it hurts him. But when he lets it…
Review: “Recall Night,” Alan Baxter
Rating: 5 out of 5 In Alan Baxter’s Recall Night: An Eli Carver Supernatural Thriller – Book 2, Eli Carver has spent the past two years laying low in Canada. When his ghosts come back to haunt him–all five of…
Review: “Manifest Recall,” Alan Baxter
Rating: 5 out of 5 Alan Baxter’s paranormal thriller Manifest Recall (Eli Carver Supernatural Thriller) starts out in a moving car, with Eli Carver behind the wheel. He has no idea where he is, how he got there, or why…
Review: “Shadows in Death,” J.D. Robb
Rating: 4 out of 5 J.D. Robb’s (Nora Roberts) Shadows in Death (In Death 51) starts out as so many of these books do: with a murder. The victim was a woman from an important and wealthy family, and she…
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Review: “Shiva’s Bow,” Skyla Dawn Cameron
Rating: 5 out of 5 Skyla Dawn Cameron’s Shiva’s Bow (Livi Talbot Volume 4) is the fourth book in this series, or sixth if you count two novellas. (See the end of this review for a full list, in order,…
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Short Take: “King’s Bounty,” Skyla Dawn Cameron
Rating: 5 out of 5 King’s Bounty (Livi Talbot) is sort of book 3.5 in Skyla Dawn Cameron’s “Livi Talbot” series. It takes place after Emperor’s Tomb [review], and is a novella about a short adventure that takes place locally…