Author Archives: ghostvillehero
Review: Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom
Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A spirited young Englishwoman, Abitha, arrives at a Puritan colony betrothed to a stranger – only to become quickly widowed when her husband dies under mysterious circumstances. All alone in this pious and patriarchal society, … Continue reading
Review: Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Buy here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: For readers of Claire Messud and Mary Gaitskill comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. Hausfrauhaus·frau \haus-frau\ n 1: … Continue reading
Review: Absolute Unit by Nick Kolakowski
Buy here: Crystal Lake Publishing, Amazon Synopsis: Bill is a nobody, a health inspector who’s not above taking a few dollars to overlook a restaurant’s mouse problem, and hated by nearly everyone except his long-suffering girlfriend. His nephew, Trent, isn’t … Continue reading
Review: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Buy at: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a … Continue reading
Review: Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
Buy here: Amazon, Bookshop Review originally appeared at mysteryandsuspsense.com Synopsis: His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so … Continue reading
Review: Pretty Hate Machine by Daphne Carr
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: What is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails? These are the questions at the heart of this study of the band’s 1989 debut, Pretty … Continue reading
Review: Hummingbird Salamander by Jeff VanderMeer
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the author of Annihilation, a brilliant speculative thriller of dark conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. Security consultant “Jane Smith” receives an envelope with a key to a storage unit … Continue reading
Review: She Who Rules the Dead by Maria Abrams
Buy it here: Weirdpunk Books, Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Henry has received a message: he needs to sacrifice five people to the demon that’s been talking to him in his nightmares. He already has four, and number five, Claire, is currently … Continue reading
Review: The Shining by Stephen King
Synopsis: Jack Torrance’s new job at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh start. As the off-season caretaker at the atmospheric old hotel, he’ll have plenty of time to spend reconnecting with his family and working on … Continue reading
Review: Guillotine: Poems by Eduardo C. Corral
Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Guillotine traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants, the grief of loss, betrayal’s lingering scars, the border itself—great distances in which violence and yearning find roots. Through the voices of undocumented immigrants, border patrol agents, and … Continue reading
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