Today several of our team members are sharing their recent and recommended reads. We hope you find something you’ll love!
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The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson
A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut.
In the lands of Bethel, where the Prophet’s word is law, Immanuelle Moore’s very existence is blasphemy. Her mother’s union with an outsider of a different race cast her once-proud family into disgrace, so Immanuelle does her best to worship the Father, follow Holy Protocol, and lead a life of submission, devotion, and absolute conformity, like all the other women in the settlement.
But a mishap lures her into the forbidden Darkwood surrounding Bethel, where the first prophet once chased and killed four powerful witches. Their spirits are still lurking there, and they bestow a gift on Immanuelle: the journal of her dead mother, who Immanuelle is shocked to learn once sought sanctuary in the wood.
Fascinated by the secrets in the diary, Immanuelle finds herself struggling to understand how her mother could have consorted with the witches. But when she begins to learn grim truths about the Church and its history, she realizes the true threat to Bethel is its own darkness. And she starts to understand that if Bethel is to change, it must begin with her.
Audra’s Teaser Review
This is a powerful horror novel for fans of dark dystopian and feminist reads such as The Handmaid’s Tale.
Read Audra’s entire review at Goodreads.
Halldark Holidays anthology
The holidays are a time for romance, sentimental longing for a simpler time…and MONSTERS! Editor Gabino Iglesias brings you 22 stories from the hearts and absolutely twisted minds of some of horror’s finest. Right from the get-go this book slays. Greg Sisco’s “The Morbs” is like “The Lottery”, but more screwed-up. Brian Keene delivers as always with “The Hatching” and Gabino swears you might shed a tear by the time you reach Todd Robinson’s “Mother and Child”. Clara Madrigano, Cynthia Pelayo, Bev Vincent, Alan Baxter, Gina Ranalli, Kelly J. Ford, Mark Allan Gunnells are absolute killers in the genre.
Emily’s Teaser Review
I love the idea of this anthology. I found some stories that I really enjoyed (including some by new-to-me authors), and my top 5 stories were Winterland Surprise by Kathryn E. McGee, Holiday Traditions by Cina Pelayo, Christmas Every Day by Nicole Willson, Elmreach by Jonathan Duckworth, and Christmas in Quail’s Egg by Max Carrey.
Read Emily’s entire review at Goodreads.
Salt Blood by T.C. Parker
A remote island. A group of prisoners. And an evil as old as time.
Robin didn’t mean to break the law. Didn’t know at first what law she’d broken. And now she’s on her way to Salt Rock — a new-model prison for a new kind of criminal, way out in the remote Northern Isles of Scotland.
On Salt Rock, she’ll meet other prisoners like her — men and women from all over the world, spirited away from the lives they knew for crimes they didn’t know they were committing.
She’ll uncover the complex web of conspiracy that connects them all, confronting some of the darkness of her own past in the process.
And she’ll come face to face, finally, with an evil as old as the land itself.
It’s hell in those waters.
Cassie’s Teaser Review
When I picked up this book, I thought I was getting a spooky island-based horror mystery – and I did, just so we’re clear! But what I didn’t expect to get was corporate conspiracy, social/political commentary relevant to the real world right now, and a cast of morally gray women that I’d absolutely fall in love with. Saltblood pays off in the best ways: it gave me so much more than I bargained for!
Read Cassie’s entire review at Let’s Get Galactic.
Emily’s Teaser Review
Saltblood has such a fascinating concept, and it was an entertaining read! This is a solid horror novel, and it offered more than I expected.
Read Emily’s entire review at Goodreads.
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