Despite my recent tendencies to avoid newer releases at their release, You Weren’t Meant to be Human, by Andrew Joseph White, had an idea that was a little too tantalizing to pass up. However, I feel I came away from it with more mixed feelings than I expected, especially since I so easily slipped into…
Continue reading ➞ You Weren’t Meant To Be Human – A Dark and Bloody Birth
Let’s close the spooky season with an out-of-this-world but extremely relatable horror novella, Walking Practice, by author Dolki Min. It’s funny, it’s gory, and it’s going to stir up your emotions and encourage examination of love, identity, and how we connect as humans. After crash-landing on Earth, a solitary alien has spent years perfecting its…
Continue reading ➞ Walking Practice – Survival Of The Fittest
Come for the demons and stay for the relationship drama in S.T. Gibson’s newest book, Evocation. In this story, we follow two ex-lovers trying to play nice in their secret magical boys club, and there is plenty of character development and paranormal problems to satisfy your spooky soul. The only thing that can make the…
Though we don’t really do our Dark Horse initiative in the way we used to, we are always striving to find worthwhile debuts. When I came across Marisa Crane’s debut novel, I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself, I was instantly grabbed by the title. After reading the synopsis, I just knew I needed to read…
Continue reading ➞ I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself – A Metamorphic Debut
Rosebud is a word that is unfathomably ingrained within my psyche, even as someone who has never seen Citizen Kane. I am both at once entranced by it, yet so utterly helpless to explain its allure. So, upon seeing a book with the title Rosebud, by Paul Cornell, I had to pick it up. I…
Continue reading ➞ Rosebud – Could Have Used A Little More Compost
