Category: 5 stars
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In Too Deep by C.F. White || Great Mystery with added Spice
Digging deeper might mean falling too far. DI Harrison Black knows getting involved with Jake Whitton is complicated. Jake is an ex-con who doesn’t trust the police. Harrison is the detective reopening the case of his missing sister. They should have kept their distance. They didn’t. Now the attraction they fought so hard has…
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REVIEW: The Darkness Bites Back by Laura R. Samotin and Ben Alderson
Centuries ago, Tobias Osian had his mortality stolen from him when he was unwillingly turned into a vampire. Ever since, he’s been consumed by the need for revenge against the monster who took his humanity – Vladimir Damianos, the head of Britain’s most powerful vampire clan. Now, Tobias is finally ready to enact his…
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REVIEW: I’m Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why… I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there.…
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REVIEW: Troubled Bodies by Jake Vanguard
We can be monsters together. Curiosity has led Payne down a path of experimentation filled with corpses, connections to the underground–and a dead partner. When he finds Blaze, broken and lifeless, on a crime cleanup scene, Payne’s knowledge of anatomy and his created serums assist in bringing Blaze back to life… The only hitch…
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REVIEW: Father Material by Alexis Hall
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes…what was that, exactly? Luc and Oliver have been through it all: fake dating to save Luc’s career, I-guess-this-is-actually-for-real dating when all of that blew up spectacularly, (briefly) breaking up over irreconcilable differences, (definitively) getting back together over perfectly reconcilable everything else, (almost) getting married, (finally) moving…
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REVIEW: Voidverse by Damien Ober
AN ENDLESS VOID. A POWERFUL ANOMALY. A QUEST FOR REVENGE. When The Sinker was a child, her home was destroyed by The Construct, a floating machine that consumes all in its path. To survive, she fled into the void, a seemingly infinite nothingness where few dare venture, filled with floating, vertically stacked rocks. Some of…
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Of Beasts by M. Jane Worma
In this queer horror novel debut, a priest falls in love with the antichrist and even God can’t stop the horror it will bring. Dante, a protestant young man, and Jude, a sadistic pastor of a small Texas church, harbor a terrible secret from the world; they’re together. The two share a taboo and…
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The Red Winter by Cameron Sullivan
A devastating love story. A bewitching twist on history. A blood-drenched hunt for purpose, power, and redemption. In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives the news he fears most: the terrible Beast of Gévaudan has returned, and the French countryside runs red in its wake. Sebastian knows the Beast. A monster-slayer with centuries of experience,…
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Never After by Alexis Hall
From fan-favorite author Alexis Hall comes a story of faith, redemption, and love—a melancholic tale of queer romance set in nineteenth-century England. On the grim streets of London, a young man succumbs to his demons. Discarded by his lover and left penniless and alone, Michael “Micha” Dashwood uses sex to pay the bills and…
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Awaken My Love by Marat Earendel
He feels nothing. The vampire feels everything. The castle wants the rest. Astaire Bloom, an unfeeling man devoid of hope, takes a job in a remote castle under a mysterious employer. As sinister events unfold around him, he starts to feel things he thought himself incapable of. And the castle is hungry for it.…
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Obsession and Desire: The Pretty Poison Series by C.F. White
When privilege claim poison, desire turns fatal. Razor Slade was never meant to survive this long. Now he’s inside, where power shifts fast, loyalty means nothing, and weakness could get him killed. His reputation might keep men at bay, but it won’t save him from the enemies closing in. Especially not the ones…
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Review: Jack Be Nimble by Jackie North
On the run. Riding the rails. Looking for love. Nimble doesn’t know anywhere else but the streets of his hometown, but when his father’s alcoholism spirals out of control, Nimble decides he can’t take the abuse anymore. With fifty bucks in his pocket, and a duffle bag of stuff he probably won’t need, he…
