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[Book Review] Little Eve by Catriona Ward & Wide Awake Sea Salt Caramel Coffee
Little Eve is a dark, gothic tale of two sisters, raised in a small secret doomsday cult off the coast of Scotland, on the isolated isle of Altnaharra, and the events leading to, and aftermath of, a bloody reckoning that leaves only one survivor on the island.
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[Book Review] Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match By Sally Thorne & Bones Coffee Red Velvet Cake
What if Frankenstein was a romance novel? Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match is a Frankenstein-retelling with the romance of Bridgerton and the eccentric excess of the Addams Family... and it's just as amazing as it sounds.
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[Book Blitz] The Harvesting Series by Melanie Karsak – Excerpt + Giveaway
It’s all fun and games until someone ends up undead.
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[Book Review] Minotaur By J.A. Rock & Peet’s Coffee Warrior Grounds
Minotaur is 60% coming-of-age story and 40% monster hunt adventure. Set in the 1930’s, the book opens with 16 year old Thera Ballard coming to live at Rock Point Girls’ Home, an all-girls orphanage, after the last of her family washes their hands of the troublesome teen. Mad at the world and determined to hate everyone and everything, Thera feels a strong kinship with the Minotaur, a vicious sorceress with her own anger problems who once went on bloody rampage through a nearby town until she was imprisoned in the labyrinth.
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[Anthology Review] The Monstrous Edited By Ellen Datlow & Dark Matters Coffee Giant Step Dark Roast
The Monstrous is a collection of some truly dark tales, but they're not just tales of horror and depravity for the sake of shock value - these are stories that will stick with the reader and make them think, even though the thoughts conjured may not be truly comfortable to contemplate.
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[Novella Review] Nightlife: Hazardous Material By Matthew Quinn Martin & Joe Coffee Wake Up Joe
If you've never heard the real life urban legend of the Polybius arcade games, I highly recommend Googling it before reading this novella – I really think it will increase your enjoyment of the story. According to the legend, which may or may not have some basis in reality, in the early 80’s a handful of Polybius game cabinets were placed in a select few arcades in Portland, Oregon. Apparently, the game was highly addictive, to the point of long lines forming and fights breaking out over who got to play next game, and reports were made of players exhibiting symptoms such as blackouts, amnesia, and night terrors. Periodically “men in…
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