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Scourge Between the Stars, The

Alien Retold Author: Ness Brown There is a ship, suspended in the glittering, perfect stillness of cold space. The captain is incommunicado, locked away in his chambers. The food stores are running low. The colony aboard the ship is returning from their planet, having failed to thrive. They are just hoping that Earth is still there, still a place welcoming return. It’s a desperate effort, and everything is going wrong. Acting Captain Jacklyn Albright, the daughter of the current captain, is trying her best to make sense of the situation. Meanwhile, her creepy technician’s overly sexualized female android, complete with lifelike [...]

Frances Carden2025-03-04T20:23:27-07:00March 4th, 2025|Tags: alien, book review, horror, read, reading|

Day of the Door, The

Murder Behind Closed Doors Author: Laurel Hightower The Lasco siblings were torn apart by their mother, Stella, and her evil, her abuse, and the day when she took their 17-year-old brother behind a door and beat him to death with a baseball bat. After that, the authorities came, separated them, took her away, and yet, somehow, never quite found her guilty. Self-defense, she claimed. Shawn was suicidal, a creature driven by rage. A troubled teen. He was the violent one. Twenty years later though, as the remaining siblings have come together, each left with nightmares and troubles, Stella says that now [...]

Frances Carden2025-02-18T18:10:27-07:00February 18th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, Laurel Hightower, read, reading|

Ghost Station

"Some of us are broken enough that we don’t get to be fixed." Author: S.A. Barnes Dr. Ophelia Bray is in way over her head – far more than her adversarial crew mates realize. This is her first space-based mission. Her job is to watch the crew for signs of ERS, a deadly, infectious condition that might have led one of their previous members (Ava) to her isolated and inexplicable death. ERS manifests through self-harm and, worse still, murderous psychotic rampages. But it’s preventable, even treatable, if caught in time. But Ophelia is not bringing her A game. She is distracted, [...]

Frances Carden2025-02-02T13:55:21-07:00February 2nd, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, sci-fi|