#Bookreview THE ATTIC ROOM by Linda Huber~ 5-star psychological thriller
“We know more about the air we breathe, the seas we travel, than about the nature and meaning of …
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#RBRT #Bookreview #Steampunk THE VIPER AND THE URCHIN
great characters are just three sliders away The usually entertaining and always brief team at Writing Excuses were playing around …
Dark #Fantasy or Horror? The Felix Chronicles: #BookReview, interview & excerpt
What if Harry Potter didn’t know about magic until he went to college? And what if (along with almost everything else to do with dorm life as a freshman) Hogwarts turned out to be more horror story than dark fantasy, and Harry’s fellow students had a tendency to end up as ketchup?
#Gothic, #Ghosts, and #Victorian Viagra, ~DANGER AT THATCHAM HALL by Frances Evesham #RBRT #Bookreviews, interview, excerpt
Arsenic poisoning was a common way for Victorians to die. They used it everywhere: in the new, fashionable green wallpaper that Queen Victoria used in Buckingham Palace; in the green dye of dresses; in “Dr Simms Arsenic Complexion Wafers and Medicated Arsenic Soap;” designed to give a woman a rosy complexion; and in a ‘pure’ form which men took to improve sexual function. Unfortunately, death often followed on the heels of such a use of “Victorian Viagra,” but at least those men died happy.
You can take the girl out of the South, but… #BookReview of #gothic #fantasy ATONEMENT, TENNESSEE
She said she was glad I wasn’t a ‘real’ Yankee (I was), gave me her recipes for red beans and rice (yum) and homemade mayonnaise (WTF?), taught me how to smock (!) and told me to watch out for the Faculty Wives Club at the University (I did).
Dark #UrbanFantasy UNHINGED by Shelley Pickens #RBRT #Bookreview
“Doctor, this woman’s kidneys are missing.” We made it through various bits of eerie mayhem—including the alien birth (tastefully shown in silhouette behind a scrim, but I still recognized my daughter as the ‘mother’)—by not meeting the eyes of any other parents.
The Power of That Glittery Hoo-ha Trope. #BookReview of THE MARRIAGE MERGER by Sandy Curtis
But once her glittery hoo-ha gets the job done, he realizes that he will never again have satisfying sex with any other woman.
Urban Fantasy vs Horror~LOSING IT by Elizabeth Armstrong #RBRT #Bookreview
In most horror, it’s enough that the main characters survive Daddy coming for them with an axe. But in urban fantasy, they catch the ghost who drove Daddy crazy and charge him with income tax evasion, bring hot dish to the ghost’s mama, and maybe end up married to the ghost’s sister.
Would you kill baby Hitler? #RBRT #BookReview of #WWII #TimeTravel Romance ISABELLA’S AIRMAN by Sofia Grey
“The first rule of time travel is that any and all modifications made to the timeline result in Hitler winning World War II. Run over a hippy in 1968? Hitler wins.
— colonel_green, ScansDaily”
Everything but the Glittery Hoo-ha~#BookReview: Plundering the Romance Novel, #parody by Ionia Martin
So Candy fell deeply in love with the monkey and changed the ending to him eating all the planes and crushing all the military vehicles, after explaining to him that she couldn’t ever be with him because inter-species relationships were not allowed on Amazon.
Barb Taub 