It was an accident that I found out about the Forward collection on Amazon Prime—but I’m so happy I did. Turns out, if you have Prime, it’s free, and each short story is interesting in its own way. There’s six in all, so I thought I’d cover my thoughts on each of these tales.
Rules for Vanishing is such a different book from anything we’ve reviewed on the site in a long time. It’s a dark medley of The Wizard of Oz, Lovecraftian Horror, and The Blair Witch Project.
40+ is a novella with a powerful hook but is hampered by a few things, including how short it is. It would be easy to imagine it expanded into a larger novel, detailing both the world as it was and how the change affected it.
Calling Harrow Lake a disappointment is perhaps too strong a phrase, but the book does fail to deliver in a few key aspects. There was a missing ingredient, a piece withheld, that made it appear mismanaged.
Rules for Vanishing is such a different book from anything we’ve reviewed on the site in a long time. It’s a dark medley of The Wizard of Oz, Lovecraftian Horror, and The Blair Witch Project.
With the movie Chaos Walking out—which I haven’t seen—I figured it would be a good idea to review the book it was based on: The Knife of Never Letting Go.
Lazarus Thoth went away for the summer, fell into a good book…and we haven’t seen him since. From Brandon Scott, author of many of our Friday Fiction posts and review articles, comes a new horror novel about one boy’s descent into his own timeline and other dimensions. Will Lazarus be able to escape the strange…
It was an accident that I found out about the Forward collection on Amazon Prime—but I’m so happy I did. Turns out, if you have Prime, it’s free, and each short story is interesting in its own way. There’s six in all, so I thought I’d cover my thoughts on each of these tales. Ark…
Project Nemesis Keeps On Twisting Itself Project Nemesis is a book series guilty of something that the internet has long figured out is not an “effective” way of storytelling but is amazing for marketing: The “Mystery Box.” The idea that mysteries trump actual good storytelling and it’s best to set up things that seem interesting…
“You must want to survive more than the storm does. When you drive your hand into the heart of a storm, it in turn drives into you. It will search out every weakness, every insecurity. If you are afraid to die, it will know.” Reading a brief synopsis of Roar before I decided to invest…
Good Omens: A Book Worthy Of Adaptation With the upcoming release of Good Omens, the show on Amazon Prime, I figured a review of the book that started it was in order. Though, if you’re a fan of Terry Pratchett or Neil Gaiman (as you should be) then you’ve already at least heard of this…
It’s been nearly ten years since J.K Rowling published Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and ended the legendary journey of the boy wizard Harry Potter. Rowling has since published a few spin-off novels but has recently penned a sequel in the form of a play alongside Jack Thorne and John Tiffany. Harry Potter and the…
