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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau - Silvia Moreno Garcia
This is quite a special review. It's almost a year to the day since I created this blog, and it was, coincidentally also a Silvia...
Slewfoot - Brom
I've been fascinated by witchcraft and the occult for as long as I can remember. When I was about 10, all the kids in all the schools in...
The Hunger - Alma Katsu
A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled on a tv show called Yellowjackets. It follows a highschool girls football team after their plane to the...
Thin Air - Michelle Paver
Call me morbid (everyone else does), but there's something that really fascinates me about mountaineering disasters. Since I first...
Anno Dracula - Kim Newman
Since I started this blog last August, this is the third vampire book I've read. I have to admit, this is quite unusual for me. Before...
The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova
As we have already established on this blog, I have always been a voracious reader. When I was a kid and my family went on holiday, half...
The Crippled Angel - Sara Douglass
This post will contain spoilers for the whole Crucible series It is done. I am finished. I have completed the series and (once I've...
When The Reckoning Comes - LaTanya McQueen
Welp, I've done it again. The first Ladies of Horror Fiction Readalong of 2022 and I've messed it up again. I started this month's book a...
The Flight of the Falcon - Daphne du Maurier
It's crazy to think that it was literally only two years ago to the week that I picked up a Daphne du Maurier for the first time. I was...
The Wounded Hawk - Sara Douglass
Alright, Take 2 on The Crucible series by Sara Douglass. The first in the series was the last review I did, which inspired pretty mixed...
The Nameless Day - Sara Douglass
They say never judge a book by its cover, and I'm afraid I might have fallen foul of this. I picked up the sequel to this, the second in...
Rotherweird - Andrew Caldecott
Have you ever started a book, that just immediately throws you onto an absolutely baffling rollercoaster, that from the first page to the...
Moonfleet - John Meade Falkner
When I was about 5, I started reading Enid Blyton's Famous Five books. I'd say about 30% of all plots were based around smuggling, which...
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