“Our Trespasses” has two things going for it. First, it’s a well-written novel. Second, it’s a darn good horror story. The minor glitch here is that the two aren’t completely compatible. As a novel, the strength of the story is in the characters. Everyone in the story is vividly portrayed, from the most positive love…
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“Dagger and Scythe” By Emilie Knight
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Well, this has to be the most unlikely love story in the history of the novel. The setup of the plot is that a certain god has a way to keep his humans in line; he has a coterie of undead assassins that go around committing random atrocities, thus frightening the faithful into submission. Dagger…
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“Hunt of the Fallen” by R. A. Zaugg
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“The Hunt of the Fallen” starts out as a standard Young Adult Fantasy: a bucolic scene, rather simple young people in a slightly contrived love triangle, a touch of nightmare in the background: the usual setup. However, once the hero leaves the tribe and starts his quest the plot tangles, characters have more complex motivation and the…
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“Child of the Night Guild:” Queen of Thieves Book 1 by Andy Peloquin.
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Andy Peloquin always manages to surprise, and not always in a nice way. In fact, his books are often very nasty. This one especially so, because it starts out at the level of a rather seamy Oliver Twist, and slowly, ever so slowly, drags us downward through a spiral of increasing violence into the pits of…