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Summer Slashers: Gory Horror Reads for the Hottest Days of the Year
January in Australia is the perfect time for Slashers. The days are hot (it’s 37 degrees today, or 98.6 for my American friends), the drinks are cold, and everything feels like it’s coming apart at the seams, and that engery that off-kilter, unhinged vibe is exactly what I want from my first TBR of the year. Summer Slashers is my January TBR, its a collection of gory, fun unputdownable (I hope) horror reads packed with masked killers, summer camps, cabins in the woods, bad decision’s and some serious final girl energy and who doesn’t need some of that in their life. My hope is these books will feel like watching…
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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…
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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,…
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