Category Archives: Reviews
Review: Starlet by Danger Slater
Buy it here: Ghoulish, Bookshop Synopsis: FAME. FORTUNE. JELLYFISH. When an aspiring young actress accepts an invite to a fading A-lister’s home, she soon learns the terrifying secrets of the Hollywood Elite. Review: I was catching up on episodes of … Continue reading
Review: The Colony by Annika Norlin
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A mega best-seller in Sweden, with rights sold to over a dozen countries and a TV adaptation underway, Annika Norlin’s debut novel The Colony is the biggest Swedish literary phenomenon since Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called … Continue reading
Review: Crash by J.G. Ballard
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In Ballard’s hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a “TV scientist” turned “nightmare angel of the highways,” experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than … Continue reading
Review: The Witcher The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Geralt the Witcher—revered and hated—is a man whose magic powers, enhanced by long training and a mysterious elixir, have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary murderer: … Continue reading
Review: Playworld by Adam Ross
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut (“A brilliant, powerful, and … Continue reading
Review: Zola by D.E. McCluskey
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Gordon’s name was a joke. It was given to him by Anthony Zola, a controlling, and abusive father, to taunt his wife over her love of cheese, and the fact that she had been … Continue reading
Review: Coup de Grace by Sofia Ajram
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station, perfect for readers of Mark Z. Danielewski and Susanna Clarke. Vicken has a plan: throw himself into … Continue reading
Review: Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face … Continue reading
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