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Review: Leafskin - Miranda Schmidt
Genre: Magical Realism Published: Stillhouse Press, March 2025 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars, rounded down "Jo moves through a world that is...
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Review: I Want to Go Home but I’m Already There - RóisÃn Lanigan
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Penguin Press/Fig Tree, March 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s...
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Review: Root Rot - Saskia Nislow
Genre: Horror Novella Published: Creature Publishing, March 2025 My Rating: 5/5 stars “He hadn’t really understood before, he mused...
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Out on a Limb - Hannah Bonam-Young
Genre: Romance Published: Independently published by the author, July 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “It’s so much easier to communicate...
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Voice like a Hyacinth - Mallory Pearson
Genre: dark academia, horror Published: 47North Publishing, January 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars “I was terrified of the possibility: how...
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Review: Nobody's Empire - Stuart Murdoch
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: HarperVia, January 2025 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “Delight in the small things, they say. I don’t know...
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Review: Woodworm - Layla Martinez
Genre: horror novella Translated: Sophie Hughes & Annie McDermott Published: Two Lines Press , May 2024, originally published by...
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Review: Moving Mountains: Writing Nature through Illness and Disability - Louise Kenward
Genre: Disability Non-fiction/Memoir, Anthology Published: Footnote Press, October 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars "It's reminded me of the...
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Review: The Empusium - Olga Tokarczuk
Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical Published: Riverhead Books, September 2024, Originally published by Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2022....
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Review: The Night Guest - Hildur Knútsdóttir
Genre: horror novella Published: Tor Nightfire, September 2024 (originally published in Icelandic by JPV, 2021) My Rating: 3.5/5...
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Review: Ludlula - Jeff Noon & Steve Beard
Genre: Fantasy Series: The Chronicles of Ludwich #2 Published: Angry Robot, December 2024 My Rating: 3.75/5 stars After the surprising,...
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Review: Playground - Richard Powers
Genre: Literary Fiction, Eco-fiction Published: W. W. Norton & Company, September 2024 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars “The world was bigger,...
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Review: The Church Beneath the Roots - Felix Blackwell
Genre : Horror Published: Independently published by the author, March 2024 My Rating: 2/5 stars “He knew not to trust the voices. He...
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Review: Graveyard Shift - M.L. Rio
Genre: Horror Novella Published: Flatiron Books, September 2024 My Rating: 1/5 stars “She learned to live in that permanent twilight of...
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Review: Eynhallow - Tim McGregor
Genre: Horror, Historical Fiction, Frankenstein Retelling Published: Raw Dog Screaming Press, February 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars " Death...
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Review: She's Always Hungry: Stories - Eliza Clark
Genre: Horror Short-Story Collection Published: Faber & Faber, November 2024 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “A teenager longs for perfect skin. A...
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Review: House of Salt and Sorrow - Erin A. Craig
Genre: Young Adult Horror, Romance Published: Delacorte Press, August 2019 My Rating: 1.5 stars “We are born of the Salt, we live by the...
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Review: Absolution - Jeff Vandermeer
Genre: Sci-fi, Horror Series: Southern Reach book 4 Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux , October 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars A quote from...
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Short Story Review: Ushers - Joe Hill
Genre: Horror Short Story (28 pages) Published: Amazon Originals for Kindle, November 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars “People die. I don’t...
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Review: Lonely Places - Kate Anderson
Genre: Young Adult Horror, Contemporary Published: North Star, October 2024 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "The bones had grown into the roots...
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