-
Book Review – Snake-Eater by T Kingfisher
30-year-old Selena has just turned up in Quartz Creek, with her black lab Copper and $27 to her name, ready to escape her life as a deli manager and her ex-partner, Walter, after the death of her mother. She’s decided that this tiny remote desert town, the home to her Aunt Amelia, is exactly what she needs while she figures out what to do. Except when she arrives, she finds out her Aunt is dead, and Selena is stuck in Quartz Creek until she can scrape together the cash for a train ticket somewhere else. As it turns out, the people who live in Quartz Creek are happy to let…
-
Book Review – Blood on Her Tongue By Johanna Van Veen
1887, the Netherlands, Lucy receives word that her twin sister Sarah is ill. In the process of excavating the bog surrounding their isolated mansion, Sarah and her husband have discovered a body. A bog Body. a perfectly preserved body of a woman, in fact, and Sarah has developed an obsession with it, an increasingly irrational one. Lucy worried that Sarah’s husband would have her committed to an insane asylum, goes to visit her sister, intending to care for her and to investigate the cause of this sudden illness. It’s clear that Sarah is hiding something, but then again, so is Lucy. When Sarah’s condition takes a turn for the worse,…
-
Ten Before the End: The Books I’m Saving for December 2025
December always has a different energy. The year is winding down, the days are getting longer (or shorter), and the mindset is shifting from start to finish, from go to stop. For me, that means one thing: a final reading push to close out the year. I’ve pulled together 10 titles horror, fantasy and a few that sit deliciously in between, that I have been saving for this exact moment. The ones that have been whispering to me “Now that you finally have the time . . .” and “Read Me, Read Me, READ ME” Many of these are New Release’s I’ve been holding back until I had the time…
English