• Categories: Book Reviews, Books, Print

      September 7, 2021

      Kyle Holl

      There's something in Leigh Harker's home. It lurks in the shadows of her bedroom watching her with round unblinking eyes, its booming footsteps filling the night air as it waits for Leigh to fall asleep. So begins The Haunting of Leigh Harker, the newest novel from prolific Australian author Darcy Coates. No stranger to hauntings [...]

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      September 1, 2021

      Kyle Holl

      The Guardian of Magic is the first entry in author Andrew Sharp's Stone Magic Series. I'll admit I had a fair amount of trepidation going into this one for a few reasons: the title is generic but the Amazon title line is absurdly overlong and descriptive, plus the cover is nigh identical to hordes of [...]

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      June 29, 2021

      Kyle Holl

      The Shade of Highfall: The Tale of Shrew is the debut novel by fantasy writer Mark O'Dell. The book is one part traditional sword and sorcery and one part coming of age that centers on the titular Shrew as she navigates her new life as a member of Highfall's thieves' guild. The story begins in [...]

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      June 15, 2021

      Kyle Holl

      Smithy is the debut novel by Inkshares author and paranormal connoisseur Amanda Desiree. The novel is an epistolary record of an animal language acquisition study centered on the titular chimpanzee Smithy (or Webster, if you're feeling formal) and the students who are teaching him American Sign Language. The researchers and their ward have taken up [...]

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      February 23, 2021

      Sean Quinn

      The Curse of Braddock Mansion begins as Natalie and her history professor husband, Evan, are quickly uprooted from their lives after Evan accepts a position to teach at a University in Atlanta. Exhausted from the seemingly fruitless search for an apartment, Natalie sparks fate when she sees a vacancy sign hanging on the gate of [...]

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      January 26, 2021

      Kyle Holl

      The Black Veldt is a new novella from Michael Reyes, an up and coming horror and dark fantasy author with previous credits in Weird Tales Magazine and Cirsova. We follow Jose Carvel, a self-described degenerate who's trying to turn over a new leaf as a writer in the Lower East Side but can't seem to [...]

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      January 7, 2021

      Kyle Holl

      Wood is a holiday horror novella by new author Dalton Primeaux. The book is about Henry, whose choice in furniture leaves a lot to be desired as the new table that he and his boyfriend Jason bring home from an antique store turns out to be infested by the spirits of long-dead witches. Having been [...]

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    • FOR RYE is a Pitch Black Descent into Madness

      October 20, 2021
    • THE HAUNTING OF LEIGH HARKER Distorts Settings and Perspectives

      September 7, 2021
    • THE GUARDIAN OF MAGIC Is a Flawed but Promising Fantasy Debut

      September 1, 2021
    • THE SHADE OF HIGHFALL is a Promising if Occasionally Overwritten Debut

      June 29, 2021
    • SMITHY Is Believable but Lacks Payoff

      June 15, 2021
    • THE CURSE OF BRADDOCK MANSION Is Compelling and Entertaining

      February 23, 2021
    • THE BLACK VELDT Is Equally Sleazy, Strange, and Inscrutable

      January 26, 2021
    • WOOD Really Needed Another Round of Editing

      January 7, 2021

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    • FOR RYE is a Pitch Black Descent into Madness

    • THE HAUNTING OF LEIGH HARKER Distorts Settings and Perspectives

    • THE GUARDIAN OF MAGIC Is a Flawed but Promising Fantasy Debut

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    • SMITHY Is Believable but Lacks Payoff

    • THE CURSE OF BRADDOCK MANSION Is Compelling and Entertaining

    • THE BLACK VELDT Is Equally Sleazy, Strange, and Inscrutable

    • WOOD Really Needed Another Round of Editing




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    • FOR RYE is a Pitch Black Descent into Madness

    • THE HAUNTING OF LEIGH HARKER Distorts Settings and Perspectives

    • THE GUARDIAN OF MAGIC Is a Flawed but Promising Fantasy Debut

    • THE SHADE OF HIGHFALL is a Promising if Occasionally Overwritten Debut

    • SMITHY Is Believable but Lacks Payoff

    • THE CURSE OF BRADDOCK MANSION Is Compelling and Entertaining

    • THE BLACK VELDT Is Equally Sleazy, Strange, and Inscrutable

    • WOOD Really Needed Another Round of Editing







  • FOR RYE is a Pitch Black Descent into Madness

  • THE HAUNTING OF LEIGH HARKER Distorts Settings and Perspectives

  • THE GUARDIAN OF MAGIC Is a Flawed but Promising Fantasy Debut

  • THE SHADE OF HIGHFALL is a Promising if Occasionally Overwritten Debut

  • SMITHY Is Believable but Lacks Payoff

  • THE CURSE OF BRADDOCK MANSION Is Compelling and Entertaining

  • THE BLACK VELDT Is Equally Sleazy, Strange, and Inscrutable

  • WOOD Really Needed Another Round of Editing