Witch Weigh, Protecting The Dream and Mine are novella/short stories that were Amazon freebies.
How could I possible resist the cover for Witch Weigh by Caroline Mickelson.
MY REVIEW
“You want me to work with a FAIRY?”
That’s what happens when a witch feels entitled and acts like the spoiled brat she is. The fun character names fits the fun story inside. Easy reading, light hearted humor, laughs, love and some life lessons for an edgy witch.
3 Stars
MY REVIEW
She couldn’t say no to James, when he said they were going ghost hunting at the mental hospital and I am sure no good will come of it. I remember the monster under the bed, the dark basement, the chilling nighttime outdoors with no lights, no moon…and she has it so much worse…it’s following her…truly frightening, wickedly creepy.
3 Stars
I don’t think the cover does Protecting the Dream by Michelle Sharp justice.
How about this one? Which do you like better?
MY REVIEW
The old farm, the weather vane…it spoke to her. She’s a Ghost Whisperer and a cop and I am loving her right out of the gate. Ty doesn’t know much, but as she opens up to him the story grows, as do the characters and I want more. She had been aloof, disconnected since the death of her family. Ty’s breaking down all the barriers. The story is not so much about her role as a cop as it is about their developing relationship and her role as a medium.
A lot packed into this novella and I love, love, love it.
Hardcore Kelli is my first foray into Wrath James White’s world and, even though it is a novella, it rocked my world and has stuck with me, leaving me wanting more. I love reading off the wall, twisted works and Wrath supplied me with a few hours of reading entertainment. I thought it would have a three rating, but seeing I can’t get it out of my head that seemed so wrong, so four it is.
Katy is a boxer, with a losing record. A garden variety type. She only did it for the money. Her world changed when she was introduced to Hardcore Kelli by her sister, Samantha. I love her. I couldn’t help but smile and laugh, until the story took an ugly turn, one I never saw coming.
If you love a quirky tale, with blood, guts, and gore, this could be for you.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Harcore Kelli by Wrath James White.
4 stars
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Bullets whizzed past Katy as she dashed through the grass and weeds, and the maze of broken recreational vehicles, farm equipment, and other slowly oxidizing junk. She gripped the gleaming battle axe in both hands as she waded through gunfire, determined to reach her archnemesis and end his reign of terror forever. Murder Man stood in the doorway of the rundown mobile home, firing at will. She had found his lair. Now it was time to bring him to justice.
Katy hurdled the rusting skeleton of an old ’77 Ford Thunderbird like an Olympic gymnast. She had once been a cheerleader, a good one. Once upon a time she could do flips, handsprings, and somersaults with ease. That was so long ago it felt more like an ancient story from some dusty old history book than something that had actually occurred in her lifetime.
The introduction had me cracking up. Michaelbrent Collings writes some fantastic horror stories and he has a rapier wit. I love his twisted sense of humor.
I love the twisted ‘Ground Hog Day’ type story.
Could make you question technology. Love the references to current times. May have you asking yourself, who am I? What if your characters came to life, coming to you for answers.
Khonra…oh man, I love that ending!
Who would do a better job of running the world, men or women?
The Button Man is thought provoking.
The novella, The Stranger Inside was what I was really excited about, though I love anything Michaelbrent Collings writes. I have read his Legion series, with the Stranger as the star, and I am excited to see how he came to be.
‘God’s chosen his vessel, anointed by blood and fear to purge men and women of their sins.’
The tools of the trade: some electronics and pharmaceuticals, some rope and a knife. He is very hands on. If that doesn’t tell you there is some evil coming someone’s way, I don’t know what will. It was…..grrrrreat for me. LOL
I love all the personal tidbits Michaelbrent Collings shared about himself. I love that he can make be laugh, gasp, shiver, and feel like tI want to puke, all in the same story. He lets his characters be real….making mistakes, paying for them, and they are able to redeem themselves…if he chooses to let them live. LOL
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Future Tense by Michaelbrent Collings.
4 Stars
GOODREADS
Worldwide bestseller and master of terror Michaelbrent Collings invites you to peer into the future, to uncover things long hidden, and to experience worlds of a Future Tense…
A world where suicide is illegal – unless you agree to kill yourself over and over again…
A place where childhood games turn back the clock – and bring with them monsters long forgotten…
A home where secrets abound – until the killing begins…
A reality where a writer’s dreams can make her rich – if she’s willing to sacrifice the universe…
All these, and more: stories of darkness and of light. Stories of despair, and lingering hope.
Stories
of a future unknown, where ignorance feeds our souls, and where the
only hope that remains in a world gone dim… resides in Tales of Apocalyptic Vision!
Michaelbrent Collings, a double Bram Stoker Award finalist and voted one of the Top 100 All-Time Greatest Horror Writers by Ranker, invites you to brave a future unlike any you have experienced. Because the future is what we make of it… and we have made a monster.
ABOUT MICHAELBRENT COLLINGS
Michaelbrent Collings is an internationally-bestselling novelist,
multiple Bram Stoker Award nominee, produced screenwriter, and one of
the top indie horror writers in the United States.
He hopes someday to develop superpowers, or, if that is out of the question, then at least to get a cool robot arm.
Michaelbrent
has a wife and several kids, all of whom are much better looking than
he is (though he admits that’s a low bar to set), and also cooler than
he is.
Michaelbrent also has a Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/MichaelbrentC…
and can be followed on Twitter through his username @mbcollings.
Follow him for cool news, updates, and advance notice of sales. You
will also be kept safe when the Glorious Revolution begins!
Daemon Blood Mary Maddox (Daemon World, #3) Publication date: March 8th 2022 Genres: Adult, Fantasy, Horror
Our war will not unfold in your imaginary heaven. We will fight on Earth with human beings as pawns and weapons.
Lu Darlington is a seer, bound to the daemon Talion through ritual and blood. It’s not a role she enjoys, but she has little choice: daemons take what they want and destroy whoever stands in their way.
So Lu’s surprised when Talion doesn’t punish her for her newfound ability to keep him from possessing her whenever he likes. In fact he’s pleased. The stronger she is, he explains, the more powerful he becomes.
And he needs that power, because a war is brewing in the daemon world, a war that will be fought by—and through—humans.
Lu’s friend Lisa Duncan can’t see daemons but she’s seen what they can do and so has stayed far away from Lu for years. After a bizarre attack on Lisa leaves half a dozen people dead and she learns it’s just the first skirmish in the daemon war, Lisa realizes the safest place to be is with Lu.
Then Talion sends Lu away to teach her skills to another seer and Lisa must stay behind to look after Lu’s son Solly, conceived through a daemon ceremony with Talion. At four years old Solly’s seer abilities are already so strong Lisa is sometimes more afraid of Solly than for him.
As Talion’s enemies grow bolder, Lisa and Lu face attacks from every direction. There seems little hope any of them will survive—until Talion and his allies devise a plan.
The only problem is how much it will cost.
“With Daemon Blood, Mary Maddox has crafted a timeless tale of good against evil. With compelling characters and a keen sense of the darkness that lurks within us all, Daemon Blood will stay with you long after you turn the final thrilling page.”
Panic wells up in Lisa as the drugstore’s automatic door
slides open and winter air balloons against her face. The idea of stepping
outside suddenly terrifies her. Post-traumatic stress, says her therapist,
Sandi—as if naming a thing steals its power. A bearded guy in a camo jacket is
close behind her. She has to move. Clutching her plastic bag of antidepressants
and tampons like a talisman, she hurries through the door.
A semi rumbles past on the two-lane highway beyond the
drugstore’s narrow parking lot. Its diesel fumes trigger the usual nausea. The
clouds unveil the sun. She imagines getting in her beat-up Honda Civic, driving
until it runs out of gas, and then walking until her legs buckle. Wherever she
ends up will be fine with her.
“Hey Lisa!” A gaunt man pops out of his SUV and trots
across the parking lot. His glossy parka, unzipped despite the subfreezing day,
bounces against his fashionably threadbare jeans.
He’s no one she knows or wants to know. She plunges her
hand into her purse as she runs for her car. Where are the stupid keys? She’s
still groping for them when she reaches the Civic.
A hand seizes her shoulder and spins her around. The man in
the parka presses her against the car, his groin against hers, and pokes her in
the ribs with something hard. She looks down at a pistol with a short barrel,
almost toylike. His open parka conceals the gun from anyone watching. Not that
anyone is. Halfway across the lot, the bearded guy is climbing into a truck
jacked up on monster tires. She doubts he noticed her at all. “Sorry, Lisa,”
the gunman says. “I know what you’ve been through and I hate—really hate—doing
this. But we need to talk.”
Panic muffles everything but her thumping heart. She
wrenches her gaze from the gun to his face and opens her mouth to scream, but
his eyes silence her. Colorless irises encircle the bottomless wells of his
pupils. Her scream drowns in their depths, but she manages to whisper. “Who are
you?”
“Willard Steeples.” His grin displays a mouthful of capped
teeth edged with black along the gum line. “Author of Professor of Death.”
Evil parasite, feeding on people’s suffering. On her
suffering. When she was fifteen, a psychopath tortured and disfigured her, and
Steeples’ book made her into a freak show.
“You’re angry,” he says. “I get that. But your story
doesn’t end with the Professor. There’s Grifford Riley, the bent cop from
Chicago.”
She finally manages to speak. “What do you want?”
“This isn’t about what I want. My readers cry out for the
truth.”
Author Bio:
Mary Maddox is a suspense, horror, and dark fantasy novelist with what The Charleston Times-Courier calls a “Ray Bradbury-like gift for deft, deep-shadowed description.” Born in Soldiers Summit, high in the mountains of Utah, Maddox graduated with honors in creative writing from Knox College, and went on to earn an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She taught writing at Eastern Illinois University and has published stories in various journals, including Yellow Silk, Farmer’s Market, The Scream Online, and Huffington Post. The Illinois Arts Council has honored her fiction with a Literary Award and an Artist’s Grant.
The Legion Novellas by Ashley Fontainne are quick reads and can be gobbled up in a day. I must warn you though, locked doors won’t keep the evil away. Lights won’t hide the shadows. I love that the covers create a brand for the series and have an eerie feel about them. The entire series is available in paperback for $11.25.
He entered thinking one thing, facing a bloody, gory horror he never could have envisioned and by the time he figured out what really happened, he was face to face with evil and it wanted him. His faith will be tested. The book may be short, but it has the creep factor alive and well and I turned the pages faster to put an end to it. And, of course, the ending is so much worse than I thought. May be short. Isn’t sweet. Made my skin crawl. Packed a lot in this novella. For the most part three stars would work, but because Ashley Fontainne had to take me down such a twisting road, jerking me left and right til the end, she has earned that additional star.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Many be Ashley Fontainne.
A mother’s anguish and her descent into hell after her husband’s death will be called on to face a demon. A child’s anger over the loss of his family will have him questioning his faith. Will he make the right choice between good and evil? He didn’t remember that night, but evil will do whatever it takes to try and collect another soul. Legion is many and still has Clyde in his sights. Could he survive a second time? FREE WILL. Horror and evil oozes off the pages and Ashley Fontainne leaves me wanting more!
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Madness be Ashley Fontainne.
I knew it was coming, but tears formed and my heart broke. The characters have been to hell and back and Ashley Fontainne shows no mercy. Who will be called to face Evil and have their faith put to the test this time? Looking at the cover, I think I know who Legion will be targeting. Mayhem is the third novella in the Legion series, so I am anticipating some heart palpitating horror to come my way. Not all the characters will survive. How strong is their faith? WOW…Just WOW…I knew what would happen, or thought I did, but not how it would happen. I find it amazing how Ashley Fontainne managed to pack so much action in a small package, containing all the emotions a human can feel and ending the series in an uplifting way.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Mayhem be Ashley Fontainne.
5 Stars
ABOUT ASHLEY FONTAINNE
Award-winning and International bestselling author Ashley Fontainne enjoys stories that immerse the reader deep into the human psyche and the monsters lurking within each of us. She writes in numerous genres including mystery, suspense, horror, sci-fi and sometimes poetry.
Ashley lives in
Arkansas with her husband and is the proud mother of one son and
grateful daughter of co-author, Lillian Hansen. To learn more about her
books please visit https://ashleyfontainne.net/
The first chapter of Peacocks, Pedestals and Prayers by Dina Rae made me sit up and take notice…and I wonder, if it starts out this horrendous, how low can we go?
Nephilim: the offspring of female humans and fallen angels.
Andel Palistokov: a fallen angel who uses advertising to promote Satan, the Evil empire Ad Agency.
Eva Easterhouse: just out of prison. She is a recovering addict and was going to live with her sister, Julie, since her mother passed away and the family home now belongs to them.
When Satan finds out about all the rules that are being broken, he gives Andel six months to find his replacement. It was time to come home. He takes the attitude, what’s the worst Satan can to do him? He’s already going to Hell.
Andel’s and Eva’s worlds collide and even though there were no earth shattering surprises, I did enjoy the book and would recommend it. The only real issue I had was with Bell. She is only six years old, yet the writing made her seem older. It kept hitting me wrong. BUT, we do have plenty of evil doings, and blood and guts.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of Peacocks, Pedestals and Prayers by Dina Rae.
3 Stars
BLURB
A chain of advertising agencies, a new breed
of humans, and a fallen angel to worship… Andel Talistokov is a fallen angel
who uses advertising as a form of propaganda for Satan. His growing power
emboldens him to break Hell’s Commandments by soliciting worship from an
ancient angel religion. He changes their rituals forever. Furious with his
arrogance and betrayal, Satan commands Armaros to return to Hell after finding
his replacement.
Eve Easterhouse, a recovering drug addict, steps
out of prison shortly after her mother’s fatal accident. She and her sister,
Julia, unravel their mother’s secretive past. Intrigued, they learn their
bloodline is part of a celestial legacy.
Both worlds collide.
EXCERPT
Watchers: The term originated in the Book of Enoch. They
were fallen angels who fornicated with human women.
Nephilim: Offspring of female humans and fallen angels.
And there was a war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back. But he was not
strong enough. And they lost their place in heaven. Revelation 12:7-8
The Bible and other sacred writings of Jubilees and Enoch
reference a great war in Heaven waged by Satan. After his defeat, Satan was
ousted from Heaven, but he was not alone in his betrayal. One third of all
angels took his side in a feeble attempt to overthrow God. When these traitors
were cast down to their new kingdom commonly known as Hell, Sheol, Hades, and
Gehenna, Satan became their king. Determined to battle God on every front, he
assigned his most talented warriors an earthly mission of collecting souls for
his expanding army.
This is a story about Armaros, one of Satan’s Fallen. He
once deceived God, and now that he lives on earth with a plan on deceiving
Satan.
ABOUT DINA RAE
Dina
Rae lives with her husband and three dogs outside of Dallas. She is a
Christian, avid tennis player, movie buff, teacher, and self-proclaimed expert
on several conspiracy theories. She has been interviewed numerous times on
blogs, newspapers, and syndicated radio programs. She enjoys reading about
religion, UFOs, New World Order, government conspiracies, political intrigue,
and other cultures. Peacocks, Pedestals, & Prayers is her eighth novel.
I read the blurb for Golem…for fans of Silence of the Lambs, Clive Barker….and had to read it. I love the dark side and reading about the demons who walk there.
Newly pinned Detective John Ashton is on his first case and he is following up the lead for the District Attorney’s missing daughter and the criminally insane Alena who swears she has seen her.
John has his own secret. He has psychic abilities and he will need them.
Alena…Annette…
A battle between good and evil, humans and demons. The humans…their goodness… does it give them a chance against a crafty and evil Golem?
P D Alleva has no qualms about putting his characters through hell, suffering and torture.
I would have hope that thing were going well, standing strong, then something would kill it and I would wallow in despair with P D’s characters. I do like villains, but…
I love that P D Alleva was able to give me some of those spine tingling moments where I was afraid to read on,afraid to see what would happen next…and it sure didn’t end the way I thought it would. That is worth a star and solves the problem I had flipping back and forth between a three and a four.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of The Golem by P D Alleva.
4 Stars
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“Excellently written, with a twisted, spiraling, unexpected end that will leave you speechless.” ~ TBM Horror Experts
Detective. Angel. Victim. Devil.
A haunting tale of suspense, loss, isolation, contempt, and fear.
On November 1, 1951, war hero John Ashton was promoted to detective. His first assignment: find the district attorney’s missing daughter. But his only lead is Alena Francon, a high society sculptor and socialite committed to Bellevue’s psychiatric facility.
Alena has a story for the new detective. A story so outlandish John Ashton refuses to heed the warning. Alena admits to incarnating Golem, a demonic force, into her statue. A devil so profound he’s infiltrated every part of New York’s infrastructure. Even worse, he uses children to serve as bodily hosts for his demonic army, unleashing a horde of devils into our world.
When Alena’s confidant, Annette Flemming, confirms the existence of Golem, John is sent on a collision course where fate and destiny spiral into peril, and the future of the human race hangs in the balance.
The Devil Is In The Details!
Fans of The Silence of the Lambs, Clive Barker, John Connolly, old Stephen King, and Anne Rice will be fascinated by this edge of your seat psychological horror thriller with a story that tears out the heart of humanity and throws it on a slab to be feasted on.
ABOUT P D ALLEVA
“This ambitious novel plays unashamedly in the pulp-SF sandbox. . . A conspiracy mavens dream, packed with gory alien-vampire action.” ~ KIRKUS REVIEWS
“An action packed no holds barred adventure with cinematic flair. Great for fans of Jeff Vandermeer’s Annhilation, L. Ron Hubbard’s Battlefield Earth, and John Ringo’s A Hymn Before Battle.” ~ Booklife Reviews
“Forget what you know about vampires and prepare to get a new bite from the tastefully different rules in The Rose Vol. 1. Bringing a new twist to a well-known genre is usually a riskWebsite, but PD Alleva has found a brilliant way to make it work. The Rose Vol. 1 is a fantastic recommendation for fans of vampire, fast-paced action, heart-racing, and dark-themed novels.” ~ Readers Favorite
Born in Brooklyn, New York, raised in Westchester County, New York, living in South Florida since 1992. A child of the 90’s PD has coined a new genre, Alternative Fiction. Why? Because Multi-Genre Author sounds like you’ve got marbles between your cheeks.
An avid reader who loves to talk books, PD will write short reaction reviews for the books he has finished and has not one issue answering questions from readers as they come.
Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those
neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread. If you are anything
like me, you might be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in
your stacks.
Orphan Jack Templar has no memory of his parents and only the smallest details from his Aunt Sophie about how they died. The day before Jack’s fourteenth birthday, things start to change for him. At first it’s great: A sudden new strength helps him defend his nose-picking friend “T-Rex” from the school bully, and even his crush, Cindy Adams, takes notice. But then a mysterious girl named Eva arrives and tells him two facts that will change his life forever. First, that he’s the descendent of a long line of monster hunters and he’s destined to be in the family business. Second, that there’s a truce between man and monster that children are off-limits…until their fourteenth birthday! Jack has only one day before hundreds of monsters will descend on his little town of Sunnyvale and try to kill him.
As if that weren’t enough, things get even more complicated when Jack discovers that the Lord of the Creach (as the monsters are collectively known) holds a personal grudge against him and will do anything to see that Jack has a slow and painful death. To stay alive and save his friends, Jack will have to battle werewolves, vampires, harpies, trolls, zombies and more. But perhaps the most dangerous thing he must face is the truth about his past. Why do the other hunters call him the last Templar? Why do they whisper that he may be the “One?” Why do the monsters want him dead so badly? Even as these questions plague him, he quickly discovers survival is his new full-time job and that in the world of monster hunters, nothing is really what it seems.
I added Jack Templar Monster Hunter, Book One, by Jeff Gunhus to my TBR on 1.29.13. I have read some of his work and enjoyed it, so why not? I’m sure I got it free, probably during a tour as he was promoting future books in the series and offered this one for free. I do love reading about monsters of all kinds. How about you? Do you have a favorite monster?
Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those
neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread. If you are anything
like me, you might be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in
your stacks.
Greg is having a bad morning. He overslept and is late for work. All he really wants is a good strong cup of joe. He’s not going to get it. Things might be going from bad to worse before the day is over…
Take a trip into the Twilight Zone with Gone, also available in the Toes Up collection, by Adam Light.
I added Gone by Adam Light to my TBR on 1.24.13. I have read numerous books and short stories by him and his brother, Evans Light. Somehow this short story must have gotten buried. I think you can only get it on audio and in the Toes Up collection. He writes some great horror, and I plan on reading any of his books I have missed, including this one, soon.
I thought I would share Corpus Corruptum by Adam & Evans Light in the same post, seeing I got them on the same day. This is a short read too, and, like Gone, is only available in audiobook format.
These stories are our mutant children, fever dreamed hallucinations that don’t necessarily fit into any particular genre – no matter how weird they are, we love them anyway. THE CORPUS CORRUPTUM collection peeks into what happens when the body goes bad, the most universal of all human fears. We hope you enjoy it.
Stories include:
WAY OUT OF HERE, by Adam Light GERTRUDE, by Evans Light VENGEANCE BY THE FOOT, by Adam Light NOSE HEARS, by Evans Light THE PACKAGE, by Evans Light
Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those
neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread. If you are anything
like me, you might be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in
your stacks.
SHE ONLY STEPPED OUTSIDE FOR A MINUTE… But a minute was all it took to turn Jean Kingsley’s world upside down—a minute she’d regret for the rest of her life.
STEPPING INTO HER WORST NIGHTMARE… Because
when she returned, she found an open bedroom window and her
three-year-old son, Nathan, gone. The boy would never be seen again.
A NIGHTMARE THAT ONLY BECAME WORSE. A
tip leads detectives to the killer, a repeat sex offender, and inside
his apartment, a gruesome discovery. A slam-dunk trial sends him off to
death row, then several years later, to the electric chair.
CASE
CLOSED. JUSTICE SERVED…OR WAS IT?Now, more than thirty years later,
Patrick Bannister unwittingly stumbles across evidence among his dead
mother’s belongings—it paints her as the killer and her brother, a
wealthy and powerful senator, as the one pulling the strings.
WHAT
REALLY HAPPENED TO NATHAN KINGSLEY?There’s a hole in the case a mile
wide, and Patrick is determined to close it. But what he doesn’t know is
that the closer he moves toward the truth, the more he’s putting his
life on the line, that he’s become the hunted. Someone’s hiding a dark
secret and will stop at nothing to keep it that way.
The clock is
ticking, the walls are closing, and the stakes are getting higher as he
races to find a killer—one who’s hot on his trail. One who’s out for his
blood.
I added The Lion, The Lamb, The Hunted by Andrew E Kaufman to my TBR on 12.24.12. A psychological thriller…that explains everything for the addition to my reading list…and that awesome cover. What do you think of it?
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