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Exorcists’ House, The

An Amateur Exorcist Story Author: Nick Roberts Daniel Hill has an idea to make some extra cash – a fixer-upper farmhouse in the isolated hills of West Virginia. This will mean moving his family there for the summer to oversee the renovations and get the house ready for sale, but a change is as good as a rest, right? Nora, Nick’s pregnant wife, has more than one reason to go along with the plan. She has a secret – an indiscretion – that she wants to escape. If that means leaving her job and being cooped up in rural Virginia, well, [...]

Frances Carden2023-07-08T17:15:35-07:00July 8th, 2023|Tags: book review, exorcist, horror, read, reading|

Daughter of Rome

A Look Into the Secrets of Priscilla and Aquila Author: Tessa Afshar Priscilla has a secret and a deep regret. She also knows someone else’s secret, and that could be deadly. As the years have passed, she has found peace, even acceptance in a synagogue. It’s not the religion of her people, but somehow it seems right, it draws her. And so, she remains, an outsider, but still an integral and beloved member of the community. Meanwhile, Aquila has his own sorrows and a devastating past, but the work of a follower of Jesus is never done, and so he continues [...]

Frances Carden2023-07-04T15:33:57-07:00July 4th, 2023|Tags: book review, Christian, fiction, historical, read, reading|

Pallbearers Club, The

Scary Jackets and Creepy Dressers Author: Paul Tremblay Art Barbara (fake name to protect the not-so-innocent) was an awkward adolescent, encumbered with a back brace and a steadily curving spine. He is now sharing his spiral into addiction through an unlikely supernatural memoir. Art claims that his friendship with Mercy was more than just two quirky adolescents with a fixation on booze and the macabre. Mercy was, of course, feeding off his life-force, and now she has her vampiric hands on his manuscript, red lining his mistakes and showcasing Art for the unreliable narrator that he is. Is this a story [...]

Frances Carden2023-07-02T09:25:16-07:00July 2nd, 2023|Tags: book review, horror, read, readin, reading|