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EEK! It’s A Spider – What Hides Within by Jason Parent @AuthorJasParent

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Jason Parent writes some scary stuff, just look at the cover for What Hides Within and you will see what I mean. Does it make you want to know want to know more? It does me.

Cover by Q Design

Publisher: Bloodshot Books

What Hides Within

Amazon / Goodreads

MY REVIEW

Just looking at the creepy cover makes me cringe, yet I open it with sweet anticipation, looking forward to a great scare with same laughs, which I know Jason Parent is more than willing to provide.

With a name like Clive, I foresee some bad things coming his way. Will he be the victim or the perpetrator? We shall see.

The doctor cut open his head to remove…something…only to find everything is okay. He stitched him back up, offered an apology, and wanted him to go away. I’m sorry, but that wouldn’t work for me, and I don’t think it will work for Clive either. OMG! The nerve of the idiot moron doctor! If I was Clive, I probably would have killed him on the spot.

That is the present…NOW…let’s go to the past and find out how and why he got into this spot to begin with.

Detective Samantha Reilly was a hardened detective leading the investigation into a young girl’s death. She was inured to the brutality humans inflicted upon each other. Knowing Jason, I see more dead bodies on the horizon and a truly evil killer.

As soon as we went under the bridge, I knew where Jason was taking me. Now, I’m waiting for the twist.

Chester and Derek…OMG…I laughed so hard I cried. I love that Jason Parent packs so much action, along with the darkness and laughs, leaving me wanting more.

Chester, I wonder what’s going to happen to Chester. Every time I think about him, I try to imagine the details of his home, how and what he eats, and his dining accommodations. I wonder what Chester hopes to accomplish.

I shivered and freaked out a little. Spiders are one of my favorite critters to read about because they make me so uncomfortable. Talk about stepping outside my comfort zone.

Well, that didn’t go the way I thought and that is one of the reasons I love Jason Parent’s writing. He mixes genres seamlessly, dark horror and comedy with lots of action, and creates some amazing villains. Can’t hear so well? Have a stuffy nose? Well…

Jason, you did it again. Took me to a place filled with suspense and tension and a pace that kept me reading, wanting to know what was on the next page, and the next one…

I can hardly wait to get my hands on Victoria, Book II and the final book in the series.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of What Hides Within by Jason Parent.

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  4 Stars

GOODREADS BLURB

An award-winning horror/mystery with loads of dark comedy!

Inside all of us, there is darkness. Inside Clive, it’s tangible, and it’s aching to get out.

What Hides Within tells the story of a man held captive by an unknown evil. Clive Menard is a spineless slacker leading an ordinary existence. But when Chester enters his life, it becomes far from ordinary.

A disheveled Clive stands alone in a hospital waiting room. A series of incidences have led him to undergo unnecessary neurosurgery. A voice inside Clive’s head nags him to kill the doctor.

Weeks prior, a murder investigation and an unrelated kayaking excursion set the story’s interlocking events in motion. When a remorseful killer, a bomb-happy psychopath and a mysterious widow spider converge upon Clive, they bring with them destruction and death. Clive must discover who or what is steering his very existence before he, too, is consumed by the carnage around him.

With a driven detective following his every step and a vicious killer hiding within his circle of friends, Clive must walk a narrow and dangerous path, teetering between salvation and damnation. He must confront Chester and his own demons. But is he powerless to overcome them?

An EPIC Finalist, “Best Horror of 2013” read and eFestival eBook Award Runner-Up for Best Horror.

ABOUT JASON PARENT

Jason Parent

In his head, Jason Parent lives in many places, but in the real world, he calls New England his home. The region offers an abundance of settings for his writing and many wonderful places in which to write them. He currently resides in Southeastern Massachusetts with his cuddly corgi named Calypso.

In a prior life, Jason spent most of his time in front of a judge . . . as a civil litigator. When he finally tired of Latin phrases no one knew how to pronounce and explaining to people that real lawsuits are not started, tried and finalized within the 60-minute timeframe they see on TV (it’s harassing the witness; no one throws vicious woodland creatures at them), he traded in his cheap suits for flip flops and designer stubble. The flops got repossessed the next day, and he’s back in the legal field . . . sorta. But that’s another story.

When he’s not working, Jason likes to kayak, catch a movie, travel any place that will let him enter, and play just about any sport (except that ball tied to the pole thing where you basically just whack the ball until it twists into a knot or takes somebody’s head off – he misses the appeal). And read and write, of course. He does that too sometimes.

Please visit the author on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/AuthorJasonP…, on Twitter at https://twitter.com/AuthorJasParent, or at his website, http://authorjasonparent.com/, for information regarding upcoming events or releases, or if you have any questions or comments for him.

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Teaser Tuesday #105 – Nightlight Poetry by Anthony Renfro @atothewr

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Welcome to Teaser Tuesday hosted by The Purple Booker, the weekly Meme that wants you to add books to your TBR, or just share what you are currently reading. It is very easy to play along:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! Everyone loves Teaser Tuesday.

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Anthony Renfro writes some fantastic horror stories, but Nightlight Poetry is a bit different, a tasty treat of poetry and haikus.

Nightlight Poetry: Spine-Tingling Lines and Rhymes

MY TEASE AND ONE SENTENCE REVIEW

Entombed and 5 Deadly Senses are my favorites of Anthony Renfro’s poetry that is filled with thrills, chills, and fear in haikus and poetry that had me jumping at shadows and wanting to scream, and made me think twice about walking outside…in the dark…or snuggling up in bed.

Animated Animals. Pictures, Images and Photos
4 Stars

GOODREADS BLURB

Poetry and Haiku about the things that lurk in the darkness and the fears in every human mind.

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Sherry’s Shelves #179 – Brisk Yet Sunny Here In Florida

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Sherry’s Shelves #178 is my weekly update from 1.6.19 – 1.12.19.

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Hello fellow bloggers. How’s it shaking in your neck of the woods? We had two great days early in the week, so I picked up the debris in the front yard, sucked leaves out of the pool and messed around outside. Unfortunately, the weather didn’t hold. It is still sunny but barely gets into the fifties. Still…better than shoveling snow and scraping car windows.

I have a few reviews to catch up on from the holidays and then it will be business as usual, sorta. I’m wanting to do different kinds of posts, so I am checking out a lot of blogs looking for ideas and still learning the new WordPress crap stuff. One thing I miss that I haven’t figured out is how to do rows of books like I used to. They don’t want to stay side by side, but below each other, like the above meme banners that used to be side by side. I wanted to experiment with posts the old way, so now it makes more sense. I do like clean and simple, for the most part. I want to grab four of my own photos for the headers. We are having trouble with our office computer, so scanning photos has been put on hold. I have hundreds, maybe thousands of pics to scan before they fade. It seems like, with technology, it’s always something, but I am much more patient than I used to be. Why sweat the small stuff? It’s not like it will change anything. LOL

Have a great week and I’ll be seeing you in cyberspace.

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I am really glad I blogged ahead for the holidays and I do have some planned here and there for the new year, but need to get ahead…again. A never ending battle.

  • Sherry’s Shelves
  • Monday Mini – Free Book – Blood Debt by Nancy Straight
  • Review – What Hides Within by Jason Parent
  • Giveaway & Review – Las Vegas Crime by Leslie Wolfe
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Friday 56 #152 – Renegades by Marissa Meyer @ marissa_meyer

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The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice.The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your ereader and find any sentence or a few ( no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.

Please join Rose City Reader every Friday to share the first sentence or so of the book you are reading along with you initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires.

Please include the title of the book and the author’s name.

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I won Renegades by Marissa Meyer from Lauren @ Always Me. . Thanks so much. I kept looking at it and it kept talking to me…read me…read me…so I did. Amazing!

Renegades (Renegades, #1)

Amazon / Audio / Goodreads

MY 56

That girl had a bunch of low tech gadgets and a power that only worked through skin-to-skin contact. How had she beaten him?

Pulling the marker from the back pocket of his jeans, he sketched a water faucet on the rooftop’s concrete ledge and pulled the drawing into three dimensions. With a twist of the knob, cool water gushed forward.

BOOK BEGINNINGS

We were all villains in the beginning.

GOODREAD BLURB

Secret Identities. Extraordinary Powers. She wants vengeance. He wants justice.

The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies — humans with extraordinary abilities — who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone… except the villains they once overthrew.

Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice — and in Nova. But Nova’s allegiance is to a villain who has the power to end them both.

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Ghosts Never Say Die – End of Day by Mae Clair @MaeClair1

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Mae Clair can spin a tale and I am happy to read another story, End of Day, in the Hode’s Hill series. Look at that beautifully creepy and ominous cover. Don’t ya just love it?

Cover by: Kensington Publishing

End of Day by Mae Clair is up for preorder and will be published on 1.15.19.

End of Day (Hode's Hill, #2)

Amazon / Goodreads

MY REVIEW

End of Day by Mae Clair is Book Ii of the Hode’s Hill series. It is told from two points of view, jumping from the past to the present, keeping the mystery from both perspectives alive throughout the story.

Gabriel Vane, an emerald, and…death.

Gabriel’s death…it is so terrifyingly horrific that it gave me the shivers and had the hair on my arms and the back of my neck standing up. Mae Clair does a wonderful job of showing, not telling, as the words bring the scene to life and I couldn’t help but picture it in my mind’s eye.

Jillian Cley is an empath and that explains why she is a loner. She works for herself, designing websites. She has Maya, her one and only friend, and Blizzard, her therapy dog. I love having critters added to stories, especially dogs. It adds a ittle something extra that I like to see authors do.

Her family is responsible for the upkeep of the grave of Gabriel Vane at Hickory Chapel Cemetery. The grave has been disturbed, but they cannot allow him to die…again, the Third Death.

Elliot, her neighbor and newfound friend is going to become super important to her and she to him.

Sherree had never gotten over Boyd, her boyfriend who was murdered and she never quit looking for the secrets locked in Madison’s head. Since Gabriel Vane’s bones had been disinterred, people are dropping like flies. No two deaths are the same, no pattern. she finds a friend in Dante. She doesn’t need to convince him of anything, he already knows.

Monsters are real in Mae Clair’s world. We will definitely see them raise their ugly heads.

For whom does the bell toll? If you hear it, it tolls for you…or someone close to you.

There is a subtle hint of malice throughout the entire book. I have a feeling of doom. When will it happen? How will it happen? Who will survive the meeting?

There is an introduction to Book III, but I am not going there. It will make me agonize over the wait.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of End of Day by Mae Clair.

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  4 Stars

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The past is never truly buried…  

Generations of Jillian Cley’s family have been tasked with a strange duty—tending the burial plot of Gabriel Vane, whose body was the first to be interred in the Hode’s Hill cemetery. Jillian faithfully continues the long-standing tradition—until one October night, Vane’s body is stolen from its resting place. Is it a Halloween prank? Or something more sinister?  

As the descendants of those buried in the church yard begin to experience bizarre “accidents,” Jillian tries to uncover the cause. Deeply empathic, she does not make friends easily, or lightly. But to fend off the terror taking over her town, she must join forces with artist Dante DeLuca, whose sensitivity to the spirit world has been both a blessing and a curse. The two soon realize Jillian’s murky family history is entwined with a tragic legacy tracing back to the founding of Hode’s Hill. To set matters right, an ancient wrong must be avenged…or Jillian, Dante, and everyone in town will forever be at the mercy of a vengeful spirit.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Mae Clair opened a Pandora’s Box of characters when she was a child and never looked back. Her father, an artist who tinkered with writing, encouraged her to create make-believe worlds by spinning tales of far-off places on summer nights beneath the stars.

Mae loves creating character-driven fiction in settings that vary from contemporary to mythical. Wherever her pen takes her, she flavors her stories with conflict, romance and elements of mystery. Married to her high school sweetheart, she lives in Pennsylvania and is passionate about writing, old photographs, a good Maine lobster tail and cats.

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MY REVIEWS FOR MAE CLAIR

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Teaser Tuesday #104 – Camouflaged Encounters by David Englund #David Englund

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Welcome to Teaser Tuesday hosted by The Purple Booker, the weekly Meme that wants you to add books to your TBR, or just share what you are currently reading. It is very easy to play along:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers! Everyone loves Teaser Tuesday.

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Camouflaged Encounters by David Englund was added to my Goodreads shelf on 1.24.15. I dusted it off and began reading.

CAMOUFLAGED ENCOUNTERS (The CAMOUFLAGED Series,#1)

Amazon / Goodreads

MY TEASE

No, no, no! You can’t just drive away. These are very, very bad people. You can”t trust what they tell you. Bad people lie. They do it for a living. At least search them for more weapons Come onnnn! This can’t be happening.

(38% on Kindle)

GOODREADS BLURB

Forget what you think you know. How well do you really know your neighbors or fellow workers? Do you trust your boss? What about politicians? The fabric of our society is under attack. Our way of life, our livelihood, our very existence is under full assault. No one even realizes that it’s happening. Disguised as horrible natural disasters on the news, the world is caught unsuspecting as events draw us ever nearer to extinction. As “natural disasters” escalate and tensions between nations mount, one man hears a whisper. It has begun . . .

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Monday Mini Review The Life and Lessons of a Young Author Sunayna Prasad #SunaynaPrasad

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The Life and Lessons of a Young Author

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MY REVIEW

I debated long and hard about the rating for The Life Lessons of a Young Author by Sunayna Prasad. She does share some helpful tips on writing and publishing and it is written in a simple language. Short and to the point. I did sense her disappointment when it came to results, whether it was through reviews or through publishers. I know writers work very hard , BUT..

It seems like she won’t take her own advice. The book is short and pretty simple, yet I was disappointed with the grammatical errors and the whole thing felt like it was thrown together just to have a book.

I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of The Life Lessons of a Young Author by Sunayna Prasad.

Animated Animals. Pictures, Images and Photos 2 Stars

GOODREADS BLURB

Whether you are young or old, The Life and Lessons of a Young Author can offer those who dream of finding the right path in the world of writing and publishing. Sunayna Prasad shares her experience as a young author and discusses what went well for her and what she suggests to those who long for success.

Talking about her life as a published writer, Sunayna Prasad teaches you the rules of the writing craft and the standards of the publishing world, as well as additional tips and tricks. The Life and Lessons of a Young Author can help you choose your own writing and publishing paths.

 

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