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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: 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: Later by Stephen King
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an … Continue reading
Review: Extinction Peak by Lucas Mangum
Paperback, 163 pages Published September 22nd 2020 by Madness Heart Press Buy it here: Madness Heart Press, Amazon, Bookshop Synposis: When the raptors come out of sinkholes across the United States, Deandra Antigone Merriweather’s elder brother Johnny sees the chaos as … Continue reading
Review: Seventeen Names for Skin by Roland Blackburn
Published August 31st 2020 by Weirdpunk BooksISBN1951658167 (ISBN13: 9781951658168) Buy it here: Weirdpunk Books, Bookshop, or Amazon Synopsis: After a cancer diagnosis gives her six months to live, Snow Turner does what any introverted body-piercer might: hire a dark-web assassin and take … Continue reading
Review: The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
Buy Here: Two Dollar Radio Synopsis: The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk … Continue reading
Review: African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou
Buy here: bookshop Synopsis: Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, but while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho’s protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and relentless internal chatter. Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to … Continue reading
Review: The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Buy it here Synopsis: People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn’t there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father’s head, from Harlem to … Continue reading
Review: Elephant Vice by Chris Meekings
Buy it Here Synopsis: He’s the master of post impressionism. He’s the Hindu Remover of Obstacles. They’re cops. Vincent Van Gogh is a cop with a dark past. He painted some of the greatest artistic masterpieces of our time. He … Continue reading
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