Book Review: Corpse Creek By Vincent Ralph

09-24-2026

Interesting Use Of Grief As Horror. This is one of those books that seems unexpectedly terrifying in that you wouldn't necessarily ex

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Book Review: Fear Farm By Vincent Ralph

09-24-2026

Solid Return To Slasher Style Horror. After the more psychological/ supernatural horror of Book 3 in this series, Corpse Cree

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Book Review: Hydra By Michael Mcbride

09-24-2026

Action Packed, Inventive, And Horrifying. This tale combines arguably even *more* insane pacing than the most frenetic action Matthew Reilly or Jeremy Robinson have *ever* been able to pull off (which

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Book Review: Little Blue Dot By Katherine Dunn

09-24-2026

Solid And Comprehensive (Ish) History Of GPS And Current Issues As Of Mid-2020s. This was the next book I read on my morning walks after Killed By A Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall and which I'm following with The Grid by Gretchen Bakke... so clearly, I still (inadvertantly?) have a theme going with

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Book Review: Shifta By Miles Joyner

09-21-2026

Strong Continuation With Even Darker Real World Stakes. This is one of those tales that feels like it could be all *too* real, set in a "near future" that is effectively the actual present and building

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Book Review: The Big Bad Book Of Kaiju Edited By Jonathan Maberry And Henry Herz

09-21-2026

Something For Damn Near Everyone. Some *REALLY* Good - Some *REALLY* Bad. This is a collection of 20 short stories and 4 poems from a global variety of authors, at least a few of which I'd read before and a few more I'd at least heard of.

Fortunately/ unfortunately, most of the *really* bad stories are the *first* ones we encounter going straight through the text, meaning that at least once you get through those stories, the rest of the book really picks up.

Mostly the really bad are preachy politics that would get a single star deduction from me if they were standalone stories - these include Lee Murray's Hum, Ann Walsh's

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Book Review: Failure Point By Rebecca Hodge

09-18-2026

Solid Paced Thriller With Heart. This is one of those thrillers that starts out rather explosively, pulls back, th

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Book Review: Promise Me Never By Liv Constantine

09-18-2026

Solid Thriller Ripped From The Headlines. This is one of those "in the moment" thrillers that is eventually

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Book Review: The Wish List Trip By Kerry Lonsdale And Orly Konig

09-18-2026

Powerful Tale Of Friendship. Like so many romances, this is one of those tales where had the people involved simply took a step back and discussed the original events so much sooner than they eventual

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