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A strong new voice in the world of Psychological Crime Thrillers Cover courtesy of Uvula Publishing If you enjoy the likes of Lee Child or Michael Connelly, add J. J. Campanella to your list of new authors to read. My go to read is not the psychological crime thriller, but I check the genre out once in a while, and this book came upon my radar because of a Christmas letter. An old college friend…
Book Review #1 — Eric by Terry Pratchett Cover Image courtesy of HarperCollins Eric, by Terry Pratchett, is an interesting entry into the Discworld series because the title character is more of a catalyst than he is the protagonist of this story. The protagonist is the ever bumbling wizard Rincewind, who is never really sure where he is, why, or what he’s supposed to do about it. Which is…
Exiles by Mason Coile — Blends familiar scifi horror themes to visit some root causes of self isolation Cover Image Courtesy of G.P Putnam's Sons A three man team (two men, one woman) embark on a literal suicide mission to Mars for the sake of humanity and the purpose of colonization. They know they won’t be coming back, except under unusually special circumstances. And, of course, they come to…
Click Here for Goodreads Link I bought this book at the Los Angeles Festival of Books a few years back, and thought it would be a good quick read to finish my month and to reduce the height of my TBR book tower. It’s a crime thriller, not necessarily my go to genre, but crime thrillers can be thrilling reads once in a while, hence the reason for the genre. This might be Perron’s first stab at…
Cover Image courtesy of Harper Collins Publishers Can you hone currently relevant wisdom from a silly little novel about dragons and impotent guards set in a medieval fantasy world and written nearly thirty years ago? Why yes. Yes you can. Take, for example, this passage from Terry Pratchett's arguably most popular DiscWorld novel Guards! Guards! Excerpt from Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett…
Cover Image Courtesy of Soho Press If you are a fan of the Apple TV series Pluribus , maybe you’ll like this book—or maybe you won’t. That’s not necessarily throwing shade. The two separate endeavors share a highly similar setting where an alien invasion consists of a hive mind entity that solves everyone’s problems and makes everything possible once you surrender and accept the alien life form’s…
Cover Image Courtesy of Tor Books I’m still not sure if the title is one word or two, and I just looked it up… I’m sticking with one, though, and I apologize to Mr. Scalzi if I’ve offended. But I don’t get the impression that the author John Scalzi is easily offended, and there’s a slightly off topic reason for that. He’s a screenwriter. Let me explain. Screenwriters, even the established ones,…
Cover Image courtesy of Harper Collins/William Morrow First, thank you to the publishers for providing this ARC via NetGalley. This is my first read from author Albert, and I didn’t know what to expect. Here’s what to expect: A dark fairytale about the repercussions of childhood fame. It’s more than that, because it’s dark and edgy with elements of magical realism and characters full of seemingly…
Cover art courtesy of Deadly Seeds Press What I wasn’t expecting from Little White Flowers by Amber Hathaway, was a story that thematically falls into the realm of religious themed/cult themed horror, which is kind of my wheelhouse when it comes to the horror I tend to write Alice and Andy are brother and sister, young adults, who are tasked with spending their summer in a rural Maine town to…
Cover image courtesy of Graveside Press Howl: A Shapeshifting Anthology from Graveside Press, is a solid collection of thought provoking horror stories. I tend to like horror that tries to be more than just scares, and this series of stories achieves that end. Some dare us to laugh in the face of tragic circumstances, like The Salt Circle by Warren Benedetto, where the shifter in question is not a…
