Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (of These Books)
It’s spooky season! Time to curl up with a cozy blanket, something warm to drink, and a good book. This October has an embarrassment of riches as far as horror goes, and we have…
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Nothing But Blackened Teeth Review: Dark Smiles, Burnt Tongues
Imagine a mouth full of teeth that are black instead of white. Are you thinking of tooth decay, of weakness and rot? Are you thinking of darkness, the primal kind that lives in a…
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Reminder: T. Kingfisher Books Exist, You Should Read Them
Did you know that T. Kingfisher, authoress of the phenomenal horror novels The Twisted Ones and Hollow Places, heroine of the pandemic who gave us A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking, and the brilliant…
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A Spindle Splintered Review: Fate is a Needle but Choice is a Thread
I must shamefacedly admit that A Spindle Splintered is the first book by Alix Harrow that I've read, but I can at least say that it certainly won't be the last. This tiny powerhouse of…
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The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie Review – A Great Change.
As a longtime Joe Abercrombie reader, I had high expectations for the follow-up to his original trilogy and the series that would come after the last novel, the stand-alone Red Country. To take a…
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Light From Uncommon Stars Review: Extraordinary
This book, friends. THIS BOOK. Do you want to read something you will then have to close and hug to your chest partway through? Do you want to read a book that never flinches…
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Mordew Review: What the Dickens
If Charles Dickens had been locked in a room, given only 20th century fantasy to read for five years, and then told to produce a novel, he would have produced Mordew. Alex Pheby is…
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The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess Review: How do you forget you murdered someone?
The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess is a skin-crawlingly good horror book by Andy Marino, his first novel for adults. It explores the real and supernatural darkness inside one woman and has an excellent…
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The Pariah by Anthony Ryan Review – A Thief Learns to Read. Chaos Ensues.
Anthony Ryan's Blood Song was one of those fantasy books I instantly fell in love with when I first got my hands on it, devouring it faster than a pizza in college, without that…
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The Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Abercrombie Preview Pt. 1 – Refresher
This September we say goodbye to Joe Abercrombie’s Circle of the World with the final book in The Age of Madness series, The Wisdom of Crowds. Before it releases though, let’s take a look…
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