The Fantastic and Forgotten, edited by Judika Illes (2016) – Usually when I review anthologies, I summarize individual stories and give an overall judgement, but this anthology is such a unique concept, I must discuss the entire anthology as a whole. First of all, I’d never heard of Weiser Books who published this anthology. They publish occult, esoteric, speculative, and New Age works. This collection, however, publishes stories of forgotten authors from the 1800s, mostly English, and includes such surprising (and not forgotten) authors such […]
If Hell was really under construction, nights like this could serve as building blocks.
This book opens with the mysterious line “They found the car,” Our two main characters are driving, they arrive at a house in the middle of the night – a house they haven’t visited for seven years and they wake a man from his sleep and drag him into the night. It’s hard to explain the contents of this novel. It reads like an epilogue of what happened seven years ago. It is a free floating epilogue in this world and through it a […]
The movie with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie is better
3.5 stars From Goodreads: Fisher Braun knows how to keep a secret. As a covert paramilitary operative, his job – and his life – depends on it. He’s at the top of his game, ready for action and always in control. No enemy has ever brought him to his knees, but one lover has: Zachary Allen, the man currently sharing his bed. The perfect package of brains and brawn, Zach is someone worth coming home to, and Fisher hates keeping him in the dark about […]
Stepford Town, but not as clever.
I recently got off work a bit early (one of the many down sides of being a Fry Minion, you get sent home because of “labor costs.”) and having nothing to do but surf my phone, downloaded a reader (how did I live without one?) and started perusing my to-be-read pile, which is quite large. Wayward was one of the first books in the stack, (it was ahead of its prequel, even, which I have not read.) I’m used to starting series in the middle […]