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Butcher Game, The

"Sometimes the devil is just a human who wants to inflict pain." Author: Alaina Urquhart Dr. Wren Muller still remembers the woods. The terror. The serial killer who nearly ended her life. Right now, she’s taking some forced time off and trying to recalibrate her mind, but she knows that he’s still out there – the Bayou Butcher, otherwise known as Jeremy Rose. And she knows him. His sick game isn’t over. Sooner or later, he’ll come for the one that got away. The Butcher Game is the second in the Dr. Wren Muller series, and my introduction to the writing [...]

Frances Carden2025-08-24T10:46:13-07:00August 24th, 2025|Tags: Alaina Urquhart, book review, crime, read, reading, serial killer, The Butcher Game, thriller, Wren Muller|

Gila!

Monster Mayhem Author: Les Simons In the beautiful world of giant, oversized monsters run amok through unprepared humanity, the 1959 movie The Giant Gila Monster was always one of my personal favorites. I discovered it on a cheap DVD set, late one night, cuddling in bed and watching a literal cheesefest of B-horror movies. I fell in love. It has everything you want from a movie so ludicrous that it’s good. I needed more. I needed a book length epic of giant Gila Monsters eating people (because really, who DOESN’T need that in their life.) Enter Gila! by Les Simons [...]

Frances Carden2025-08-23T18:56:09-07:00August 23rd, 2025|Tags: B-movie, book review, Gila, Gila Monsters, horror, read, reading|

Salvation Day

“The world not as it is, but as it is meant to be.” Author: Kali Wallace The House of Wisdom is half legend, half nightmare. A once mighty exploration vessel, it orbits now in space, abandoned, all its inhabitants dead, the victims of a virus that spread and killed indiscriminately. There was only one survivor – a lone child named Jaswinder Bhattacharya – who was shot into space in an experimental vessel. And he has said nothing all these years. Flashforward ten years. Jas is an adult man now, traveling on a spaceship with his childhood best friend (and would-be lover) [...]

Frances Carden2025-08-17T14:59:44-07:00August 17th, 2025|Tags: book review, horror, read, reading, Salvation Day, sci-fi, science fiction, space, space horror|