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Footprints of Thunder

Humans and Dinosaurs, Together Again Author: James F. David What’s better than dinosaurs? Dinosaurs running amok among people, of course! Footprints of Thunder is a science fiction / techno thriller in the vein of a Michael Crichton epic. Science and adventure/action survival merge here when time waves, caused by humanity’s reckless use of nuclear weapons, brings parts of the past into the present and parts of the present into the past. This is happening on a global scale – suddenly and viciously. Cities have gone missing – including Portland. In their place, primordial forests and savannahs have emerged, populated by strange [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-07T20:35:37-07:00October 7th, 2025|Tags: book review, dinosaurs, horror, read, reading, science fiction, techno thriller, thriller|

Something In The Walls

"I wonder how the grief can still twist inside you ... when you least expect it." Author: Daisy Pearce Mina is an inexperienced, newly graduated Child Psychologist with enough trauma to easily keep a team of psychologists both busy and irritated. So, of course, it’s time for her to get in way over her head and go to the creepy countryside and offer her services to a family with a possessed child. The rando who told her about the case will also come along for the ride, because REDEMPTION. Alice Walker is a young teen, supposedly possessed by a witch. She’s [...]

Frances Carden2025-10-06T08:56:42-07:00October 6th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, witch|

Thirteenth Child, The

“I couldn't have a lifetime, but I could have this moment.” Author: Erin A. Craig Hazel’s parents never wanted her. As a matter of fact, they gave her to The Dreaded End as an infant. Since then, they have none so patiently waited for this thirteenth child of theirs to be taken by the Dreaded End, her supposed godfather. But he never comes. And so Hazel waits for him, year after year, unwanted, unloved, un-celebrated. On her twelfth birthday, after watching her closest brother be given to the dissonant Fractured Ones, The Dreaded End finally comes for Hazel and whisks [...]

Frances Carden2025-09-22T11:22:22-07:00September 22nd, 2025|Tags: book review, botm, fantasy, read, reading|