Pros: Enjoyable horror tale about nightmares come to life Cons: Not wholly coherent Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Luke Walker’s horror novel Ascent starts in the moment of the explosion of a nuclear bomb. Five people inside an office building…
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Review: “Beyond Shame,” Kit Rocha
Pros: Very hot! Wonderful characters Cons: A few little details Rating: 5 out of 5 Kit Rocha’s erotic romance Beyond Shame (Volume 1) introduces us to a mildly post-apocalyptic world in which solar flares have done a great deal of…
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Review: “Head Full of Ghosts,” Paul Tremblay
Pros: It seems predictable… until it really, really isn’t Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 Paul Tremblay’s A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel is a book I’ve repeatedly seen recommended on Book Twitter, and finally I decided I…
Review: “A Terrible Beauty,” Nancy Baker
Pros: Intimate, engaging relationship drama Cons: A little predictable, but it’s the journey that matters Rating: 4 out of 5 Nancy Baker’s A Terrible Beauty is a gender-swapped “Beauty and the Beast” in which the Beast is a two-thousand-year-old vampire…
Review: “The Fire’s Stone,” Tanya Huff
Pros: Such an engrossing story! Cons: … Rating: 5 out of 5 I had intended to read a short horror novel, but then I happened to glance over the first line of Tanya Huff’s The Fire’s Stone, and I was…
Short Take: “The Hole,” William Meikle
Pros: Captivating tale of destruction! Cons: Two of the female characters Rating: 4 out of 5 William Meikle’s The Hole introduces us to a small town that’s about to deal with a big disaster. Residents, including 20-year-old drunkard Fred Grant,…
Review: “Feral,” Matt Serafini
Pros: Some decent humans-fighting-werewolves material; one unexpectedly interesting character Cons: See below… Rating: 2 out of 5 Matt Serafini’s Feral: A Novel of Werewolf Horror picks up in some ways toward the end, but unfortunately, by then it’s really too…