Sam is my kind of reluctant hero. He is overweight, self-absorbed, and teetering on the edge of suicide after loneliness and fear have worn him down. Sam feels Life’s whip more keenly than most people. A cynical slob with no delusions of grandeur, he wonders ‘why me’ at every step. As a bewildered non-combatant he is spared, by . . .
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Though pompous with its modern advancements, Sybar City has always fostered a seedy underbelly stretching back millennia. Glory, a humble scholar with a talent for occult research, is unwillingly thrust into this world of ancient malevolent races and scientific exploitation. A girl with issues, she would just as soon crawl into a bookshelf and never come back out, leaving a . . .
Marty hated his life, especially since breaking up with the girl he loved with his whole heart, Selena. That was before the Zombie Apocalypse hit. Now life sucks even more because not only does he have a broken heart, but the undead have nearly overrun the city. Selena died, lost to the zombies. His only means of communication with . . .
Welcome to the world of master fabulist Edward Morris, where History has been pulled down a Hieronymus Bosch rabbit-hole and everything makes far too much sense. In Morris’s alternate history tour de force, on an East Coast two centuries after Armageddon, a rogue soldier throws himself back in Time to wreak havoc upon History and feed on the blood in . . .
Left all alone in a world of zombies, Delilah must overcome her fears to find food. She finds a partner in a younger girl, Cassie, and together they set out to find a safe home. How far will they get? . . .
In October 1929 Berlin, Germany, a young but brilliant detective begins to investigate a series of bizarre and gruesome murders. As he delves deeper, he finds himself drawn into a literal underworld populated by demons, both mythological and otherwise. . . .
A meteor strikes Yellow Stone’s caldera and sets off a chain of earth shattering events. Riots and widespread panic bring cities to their knees while earthquakes ripple from sea to shining sea. As ashes fall from black clouds, people begin to die, and rise again. Zombies and super volcanoes, together at last ladies and gentlemen. The story, set in . . .
A man wakes up inside a coffin with no knowledge of how he got there or who he is. After freeing himself, he finds a note in his pants directing him to “Avoid the sunlight! Don’t touch anybody!” Afraid, hurt, and alone, he starts a journey to discover the truth about himself. But some things are better left unknown. . . .
Jameson is a teenager in a world where most people are lucky to live past 30 years. His village is assaulted nightly by The Turned, walking dead that are infectious right down to their fingernails. Everyone lives in constant fear of being caught unprotected, and becoming Turned themselves. But when Jameson is infected, it doesn’t kill him- instead of killing . . .
The small town of Minde goes from being a middle American, everyone-knows-everyone mountain town to a town torn apart by fear and suspicion when fifteen year old Benny Jorgens disappears, and then shows up a few days later, a completely ruined form of life. His mind has been ripped from his body and left imprisoned, helpless as his body is . . .
A pair of necromancers have freed the dread necromancer Arkephalous from his imprisonment. While Arkephalous works to restore his undead empire to its former semi-rotten glory by unleashing a zombie plague upon the city of Constantinople, Illinois, a band of survivors tries to hold on as long as they can. Their ranks include a sandwich craftsman with a bitten hand . . .
It’s about Zombies. Groaning, moaning, maddened flesh eating abominations driven by their insensate desire to feed. Zombies, a metaphor for a struggle we face every day. A metaphor for our hopeless battle against the savage throng of the human tide . . . an ocean of grasping hands, tearing, ripping, desecrating what you have, who you are. We struggle to keep our heads . . .
Sun-kissed is a story about vampires, those hunted by vampires and those who hunt vampires. . . .
(Review written with three chapters up, subject to change).
After a foreword that is a slight extension of the above blurb, you are dropped straight into the action. Well, more like smacked in the face by it.
There’s no introduction to the [more . . .]
I’ve been a fan of Jones’ writing for a few years now. Her work is full of black comedy, suspense, memorable characters, and palpable atmosphere. 314 Crescent Manor is no exception.
Mark and Nathan Connor are estranged fraternal twins drifting through life. They know that something’s wrong, but can’t put their [more . . .]