Thin Air by Ann Cleeves There’s nothing about the cover to tell potential readers that this book is actually sixth in a series, but in theory, that shouldn’t have mattered. It’s a mystery set in the Shetland islands, remote islands far north of Scotland. Some friends from England go up to celebrate the wedding of …
Tag: ghost
Aug 09
Book Review: Train Dreams
Train Dreams by Denis Johnson This is actually a novella, which I downloaded as an audiobook. It took only about two hours to listen to, which is a really nice length for a story. I’d head that the ebook revolution would see a proliferation of stories in lengths other than the standard mass market paperback …
Sep 10
Book Review: The Seance
The Seance by John Harwood This definitely delivers on the Gothic horror front. It’s moody, gloomy, and has plenty of lovers who die tragically in their youth. It has a treacherous bad guy, plenty of innocent maidens, and a crumbling old wreck of a house set in the middle of the haunted wood. The story …
May 07
Book Review: Will Storr Vs. the Supernatural
Will Storr vs. The Supernatural: One Man’s Search for the Truth About Ghosts by Will Storr When I first started reading this book, I couldn’t shake the feeling that it resembed ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD, a YA horror I read recently. Storr has an unusual writing style, very evocative, that sometimes borders more into fiction …
Feb 24
Book Review: Anna Dressed in Blood
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Just when I thought that the mini-genre of dark fantasy YA couldn’t be mined for anything else, something comes along like this took that charms the pants off me. How could you fail to be entranced when it opens with a teenage ghost hunter picking up a dead …
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