Category: Contemporary

  • REVIEW: Worth The Wait by C.F. White

    REVIEW: Worth The Wait by C.F. White

      It was never over. It was just waiting. Nathan Carter didn’t return to Worthbridge looking for a second chance. He came back for a roof over his head, a job that pays, and maybe, if he’s lucky, a way to connect with the teenage son he’s barely known. Life in the army taught him…

  • REVIEW: June 2025 reads!

    REVIEW: June 2025 reads!

        It’s time for my June reads summary… Little art by me and short reviews!   🖤 The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson will make you cry so many times it will feel like the new normal. 🖤 A Game of Monsters by Ben Alderson is an epic conclusion to a brilliant…

  • REVIEW: Looney! by Stephen Kozeniewski and Gavin Dillinger

    REVIEW: Looney! by Stephen Kozeniewski and Gavin Dillinger

      When beloved cartoon characters come crawling out of her TV, army recruiter Gabriella Harman expects a zany romp instead of the hellish nightmare that follows. One night, haunted by her memories of Iraq, Gabriella downs a stomachful of pills and booze. When her favorite cartoon characters, the Kooky Toons, start crawling out of the…

  • 2025: May Reads!!

    2025: May Reads!!

    William by Mason Coile  A horror in which an inventor with agoraphobia creates an A.I. … being. The problem is that he’s made it a little too well and it begins to make its own decisions. It begins to make very bad decisions…deadly decision. I loved the suspense in this book. Great twist at the…

  • REVIEW: Till Death by Kellan McDaniel

    REVIEW: Till Death by Kellan McDaniel

    Two gay men—one young, one ageless—sink their teeth into reclaiming their lives and identities from those who would silence them in this insatiable romantic horror novel from Hugo and Nebula Award–nominated author Kellan McDaniel. Howard is biding his time until he can finally leave for college, where he has been promised it gets better. The…

  • REVIEW: William byMason Coile

    REVIEW: William byMason Coile

    Psychological horror meets cyber noir in this delicious one-sitting read — a haunted house story in which the haunting is by AI. Henry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career — he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot…

  • April 2025 reads

    April 2025 reads

    I read 9 books in #April and it was an adventure. I’ve pulled away from review sites a bit and plan to do so for, at least, another month. I want to catch up on the amazing books that I have bought and are sitting here waiting for me. This month I read: The Very…

  • REVIEW: Romeo Falling by Jesse H. Reign

    REVIEW: Romeo Falling by Jesse H. Reign

      What happens when he’s your Romeo…but you’re no Juliet? Romeo and I were friends long before we were lovers. Best friends. Ride or die. What started as an innocent kiss slowly unraveled and shattered, giving way to years of tears and total obsession. Now I’m back in the small town I call home, staring…

  • REVIEW: Another First Chance by Robbie Couch

    REVIEW: Another First Chance by Robbie Couch

      They Both Die at the End meets You’ve Reached Sam, in this heart-stopping speculative young adult novel from New York Timesbestselling author Robbie Couch that explores all the different ways love can live on after tragedy. It’s been a year since eighteen-year-old River Lang’s best friend died in a car accident. And every day…

  • REVIEW: Killing Me Softly by C.F. White

    REVIEW: Killing Me Softly by C.F. White

      Their love was forged in shadows. Now the darkness wants to tear them apart. Aaron Jones was never meant to fall in love. Especially not with Dr Kenneth Lyons, not only his professor but also the criminal psychologist who helped profile his parents. But Kenny sees through his defences, kisses past the pain, and…

  • Out Today: Kiss Me Honey Honey by C.F. White

    Out Today: Kiss Me Honey Honey by C.F. White

    OFFICIAL BLURB Every kiss is a sin. “Giving into temptation might not just ruin Kenny… It could kill him.” Aaron has spent his life running from intimacy, but when his professor, Dr Kenneth Lyons, broke through his defences last year, only to push him away, the sting of rejection left an indelible mark. He’s determined…

  • REVIEW: Pieces of Home by Becca Neil

    REVIEW: Pieces of Home by Becca Neil

    All he’d ever wanted was to go home. Ryan Davis has lived in hell for the last fifteen years. Kidnapped at age eight, then beaten, broken, and forced into silence, Rye managed to exist, to survive. When a chance phone call gives him an opportunity to escape, he takes it. But escape doesn’t mean safety,…