Posts tagged Brutality
Irons in the Fire by Juliet E. McKenna – Review
May 26th
Irons in the Fire (Chronicles of the Lescari Revolution) by Juliet E. McKenna
As an opening volume, Irons in the Fire is arguably too slow for its own good. In part, this is an unavoidable side-effect of McKenna’s style: it takes time to build up a picture of a world, and a plot, through layers of More >
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May 9th
Afraid by Jack Kilborn
Don’t you love it when a book lives up to its billing? When I first heard about Jack Kilborn’s “Afraid†what immediately grabbed my attention was the tagline: “Reminiscent of the best novels of Stephen King and Dean Koontzâ€. Now I love Koontz and while I’m not as big a fan of More >
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Mar 9th
Tender Morsels by Margo Lanagan
Readers who miss the days of reading fairy tales should really enjoy this book. Readers who still enjoy the retellings of fairy tales by authors such as Terri Windling, Ellen Datlow, and Angela Carter will enjoy this book even more.
Tender Morsels is a dark original fairy tale of a mistreated More >
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Mar 5th
The Girl She Used to Be by David Cristofano
Melody Grace McCartney does not know who she is. Well, to be more precise: she does not know who she would have been.
When Melody was six, she and her parents witnessed something they shouldn’t have. An act of mafioso brutality. Talked into testifying, her parents went More >
(5 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Brian Keene’s TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2008
Nov 26th
1. JUST LIKE HELL by Nate Southard – Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door is a seminal work within the horror genre. Not only was it a game-changer for an entire generation of writers–it also had a lasting impact on readers. If, like me, you read it when it was first published, you can probably More >
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) Loading ...Jesus of Cottondale by Jerry Leverett – Review
Oct 24th
Jesus of Cottondale by Jerry Leverett
Leverett sets a few disturbingly graphic scenes that include violence, sex and child abuse amidst a vivid and dynamic cast of characters with big personalities involved in a satisfying crime tale, Ã la Pulp Fiction. The star-crossed lovers at the center of the plot are highlighted against a gritty story More >
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