Fractured Tears: Book Review
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Fractured Tears: Book Review

It is as if Anna herself is sat across from you, recounting the horrors she went through. Poignant, heartbreaking, and genuine.

Just as a warning, this book contains prolonged and serious domestic assault, resulting in injury.

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Split Scream Vol 2: Book Review
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Split Scream Vol 2: Book Review

Unique in style and theme from Volume 1, the novelettes in Volume 2 did not disappoint. I can now safely say that Dread Stone Press knows how to put together delicious double features for horror fans everywhere.

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Tales from Between: Anthology Review
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Tales from Between: Anthology Review

Overall, I enjoyed this anthology and found the illustrated entries a refreshing addition to the prose. Again, this anthology didn’t have a theme but I enjoyed that because then you never knew what to expect — not in story topic or even subgenre.

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Blood Mountain: Collection Review
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Blood Mountain: Collection Review

This whole collection is thick with blood, despair, and the overpowering menace of the landscape, the mountain, and nature herself. I was hooked by the first page and yanked in, drowning deliciously in Brenda’s beautiful prose and brutal themes.

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Beulah - Novel Review
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Beulah - Novel Review

Character-driven and heavy with atmosphere, Beulah pulls the reader into a slow-burning ghost story as surreal as a dream, but rife with brutal moments of harsh reality. Gothic foreboding colours every page of this novel.

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Your Mind Is A Terrible Thing: Novella Review
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Your Mind Is A Terrible Thing: Novella Review

Dealing with themes of isolation, anxiety, and self-doubt, Your Mind Is A Terrible Thing explores what it means to be human, what it means to be one’s authentic self despite flaws and hurt. It’s beautiful. It’s brutal. It doesn’t let go and the ending leaves you with a bittersweet mix of hope and despair.

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Sing Like A Canary: Novel Review
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Sing Like A Canary: Novel Review

Right away, I got Agatha Christie vibes from the writing! The settings are luscious, I really enjoyed the strong, realistic females characters in this book though I also grew fond of the informant, an avid dog lover and puzzler, and the ending was as unexpected as it was satisfying.

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The Cabin Sessions: Book Review
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The Cabin Sessions: Book Review

Darkly decadent, The Cabin Sessions traps the reader in one place, sinking them deep in the mire that is the town of Burton’s twisted history. The reader learns secrets piecemeal, drowning in the suspense, as Blackthorn rushes them to the explosive conclusion.

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