Hunger Pangs: Stories by Scott J. Moses

𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞, 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐟𝐲.

𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟗: 𝐀 𝐠𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲.
𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟎: 𝐀 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐱𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐝.
𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟗: 𝐀 𝐡𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐡𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐞.
𝟏𝟗𝟖𝟓: 𝐒𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 – 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝.
𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎: 𝐀𝐧 𝐢𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧.

𝐈𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐒𝐜𝐨𝐭𝐭 𝐉. 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝟏𝟑 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐰𝐨𝐞.

4 out of 5 stars!

Let’s start right off and talk about this cover! It is absolutely incredible!

Now I know the skin of a book isn’t the star of the show, the true treasure lies in the guts of the read but you can’t deny that a masterpiece on the outside isn’t the perfect eye candy every book worm adores.

When I opened the pages of Hunger Pangs I had no idea that this was Scott’s debut collection. I really should have done my research better, but honestly for this to be his first collection out into the world I am very impressed.

Scott’s stories are unique and raw. His writing is smooth and consumable. Usually when I read a collection there are a couple that really, really stand out or that you may enjoy more than others. This collection I had a hard time pin pointing my favorite. I enjoyed them all for different reasons! I use the saying “like children, you love them all just as much, only in different ways.” You can’t possibly pick a favourite.

Hunger Pangs is a collection worth getting lost in, transporting out of reality into these dark, bizarre, frightening worlds…. that is if you think you can handle it of course.

I can’t thank Scott enough for sending me an e-copy to read and review, obviously I will need to pick up a physical copy as soon as I can to add to my collection…..I mean….that COVER! But when I saw that Hunger Pangs was on audible I downloaded it right away knowing it would help me get to this review so much sooner, so I can also say the audiobook was done very well, worth checking out.

Hunger Pangs will leave a lasting, haunting effect!

Publisher: Independently published

Release Date: September 29, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your HUNGRY Book Worm

-Nichole

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(𝓒𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓼 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 2) by Candace Robinson

𝓑𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝔂 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓪𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓲𝓻𝓻𝓸𝓻 𝓚𝓮𝓮𝓹𝓮𝓻, 𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓳𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓪 𝓰𝓾𝔂 𝓲𝓷 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓸’𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓭 𝓪 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓯𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓶𝓮𝓮𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓛𝓮𝓷𝓲. 𝓣𝓱𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓛𝓮𝓷𝓲, 𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽 𝓱𝓮’𝓭 𝓯𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓭 𝓪 𝔀𝓪𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓵𝔂 𝓵𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓬 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓭. 𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓲𝓻𝓻𝓸𝓻 𝓓𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷, 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓬𝓪𝓷 𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓫𝓮 𝓫𝓻𝓸𝓴𝓮𝓷—𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓫𝓸𝓷𝓭.

𝓛𝓮𝓷𝓲 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓱𝓪𝓾𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓭𝓸𝔀𝓼 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝔀𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓮 𝓵𝓲𝓯𝓮. 𝓢𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓪𝓭 𝓴𝓮𝓹𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓫𝓾𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓷 𝓪 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓸𝓷𝓮—𝓮𝔁𝓬𝓮𝓹𝓽 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻—𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓬 𝓪𝓼 𝓪 𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷. 𝓑𝓾𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝓼𝓱𝓪𝓭𝓸𝔀𝓼 𝓪𝓻𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓵𝓮𝓭 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓟𝓲𝓹𝓮𝓻, 𝔀𝓱𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝔀𝓪𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓻 𝓷𝓸𝓽. 𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓸𝓷 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓾𝓮𝓭 𝓸𝓷 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓿𝓮 𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓮𝓬𝓽 𝓪𝓽 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓬𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓼.

𝓝𝓸𝔀 𝓫𝓪𝓬𝓴 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓜𝓲𝓻𝓻𝓸𝓻 𝓓𝓲𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷, 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓛𝓮𝓷𝓲 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓯𝓪𝓬𝓮 𝓹𝓾𝓷𝓲𝓼𝓱𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓫𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓬𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓰𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮. 𝓜𝓾𝓼𝓲𝓬 𝓪𝓵𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝔀𝓸𝓷’𝓽 𝓫𝓮 𝓮𝓷𝓸𝓾𝓰𝓱 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓹 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓲𝓶𝓮. 𝓘𝓷 𝓸𝓻𝓭𝓮𝓻 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓛𝓮𝓷𝓲 𝓽𝓸 𝓼𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓿𝓮𝓼, 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓶𝓾𝓼𝓽 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓴 𝓱𝓮𝓵𝓹 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝔀𝓸 𝓹𝓮𝓸𝓹𝓵𝓮 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓪𝓵𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓴𝓲𝓵𝓵𝓮𝓭. 𝓘𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝔂 𝓬𝓪𝓷’𝓽 𝓫𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓽𝓸𝓰𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓸 𝓭𝓮𝓯𝓮𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓻𝓸𝔂𝓪𝓵𝓼, 𝓛𝓮𝓷𝓲 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓮𝓷𝓭 𝓾𝓹 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝔂 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓫𝓮𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓱𝓮 𝓽𝓻𝓾𝓵𝔂 𝓱𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼.

Author: Candace Robinson https://www.instagram.com/literarydust/

Publisher: Midnight Tide Publishing https://www.instagram.com/midnighttidepublishing/

Date: March 17, 2021

Cover Artist: Jena R Collins https://www.instagram.com/jrc.coverdesigns/

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Thank you all for reading!

Your MUSIC LOVING book worm

-Nichole

Halloween Season by Lucy A. Snyder

ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕤𝕥 𝕨𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕗𝕦𝕝 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕦𝕤. 𝔽𝕠𝕣 𝕕𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕤, 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕠𝕟 𝕓𝕖𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕦𝕞𝕟 𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕠𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕠𝕖𝕤𝕟’𝕥 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕝 ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕥𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕚𝕟 ℕ𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣. 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕚𝕥 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕤 𝕒 𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝕝𝕠𝕥 𝕠𝕗 𝕗𝕦𝕟: 𝕤𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕞𝕠𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤, 𝕙𝕒𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕤𝕖𝕤, 𝕤𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝 𝕤𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕥𝕤, 𝕤𝕡𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕪 𝕕𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤, 𝕔𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕞𝕖 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕤, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕠𝕗 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕜 𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥. 𝔹𝕦𝕥 ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕚𝕤 𝕒𝕝𝕤𝕠 𝕒 𝕕𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕝𝕪 𝕤𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕦𝕒𝕝 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖; 𝕚𝕥’𝕤 𝕒𝕟 𝕠𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕦𝕟𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝕥𝕠 𝕣𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕠𝕣 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕠 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕡𝕒𝕤𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕟.

𝕄𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕪𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕣 𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕪 𝔸. 𝕊𝕟𝕪𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕔𝕒𝕦𝕝𝕕𝕣𝕠𝕟 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕞𝕖𝕒𝕟𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕥 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕒 𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕝𝕝-𝕓𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕧𝕠𝕝𝕦𝕞𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤. 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕤𝕖 𝕡𝕒𝕘𝕖𝕤 𝕪𝕠𝕦’𝕝𝕝 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕤, 𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕒𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣𝕤, 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕒𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕪.

𝕆𝕟𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕚𝕤 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕕𝕠𝕟’𝕥 𝕙𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗. 𝕊𝕠 𝕘𝕠 𝕒𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕟 𝕒 𝕟𝕖𝕨 𝕞𝕒𝕤𝕜 𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕨𝕠 … 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕞𝕒𝕪 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕚𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕤 𝕒 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕔𝕙, 𝕒 𝕡𝕚𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖, 𝕒 𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕧𝕠𝕪𝕒𝕘𝕖𝕣, 𝕒 𝕫𝕠𝕞𝕓𝕚𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕖𝕣, 𝕠𝕣 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕒𝕟 𝕖𝕝𝕗. 𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕗𝕖𝕔𝕥 𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕔𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕠𝕟 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕠 𝕤𝕦𝕞𝕞𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕤𝕖 𝕙𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕪 𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕦𝕞𝕟 𝕧𝕚𝕓𝕖𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕟𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕝𝕚𝕜𝕖. 𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕞𝕒𝕪 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕒 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕖𝕧𝕠𝕜𝕖 𝕒 𝕔𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕤 𝕥𝕣𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠 𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕨𝕕 𝕚𝕟 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕦𝕟.

𝕀𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕠𝕠𝕜, 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕚𝕤 ℍ𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕟!

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

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3 out of 5 stars!

Halloween Season contains 13 short stories and a couple dark poetry pieces.

The cover is so awesome but don’t be fooled! This cover screams Halloween but as the synopsis suggests there are a couple stories wrapped around a specific winter Holiday that comes in close behind Halloween.

Although this collection reads true to form on what the synopsis suggests. Sadly I personally didn’t enjoy this as much as I had wanted.

Some of the stories were a bit mind bending or tricky at times but none of them were overly chilling. However there were a couple stories that stood out for me more than others; In The Family, The House That Couldn’t Clean Itself and Toy Makers Joy.

A warning poetry piece comes in before the last two stories in this collection and this is where I thought here we go! this is it! Lucy has been holding back on us, it’s all going to go down now.. but it didn’t. I was missing the wow factor.

I guess what I am trying to say is although Lucy’s writing is good, the stories were interesting and it was a decent collection in a whole, it was missing something for me and I wasn’t feeling the Halloween goodness throughout.

Thank you so much Raw Dog Screaming Press, Lucy A. Snyder and Erin Al-Mehairi for making sure I received a review copy.

Publisher: Raw Dog Screaming Press

Release Date: October 5, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your ZOMBIE FIGHTER Book Worm

-Nichole

You can check out my video review here:

𝓢𝓽𝓪𝓻𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓖𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓼 𝓲𝓷 𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂 𝓣𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭 𝓫𝔂 𝓔𝓻𝓲𝓬 𝓛𝓪𝓡𝓸𝓬𝓬𝓪

𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓪 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽. 𝓢𝓱𝓮’𝓼 𝓼𝓸 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓰𝓾𝓲𝓵𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓽 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓮𝓵𝓼 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓸𝓭𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓾𝓷𝓻𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓵 𝓾𝓷𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓼 𝓸𝓯𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓼. 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂’𝓼 𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓲𝓼 𝓾𝓼𝓾𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽, 𝓾𝓷𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓼 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶. 𝓗𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻, 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓱𝓾𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭𝔂 𝓫𝓮𝓰𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓪𝓯𝓮𝓽𝔂. 𝓣𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓲𝓷𝔂 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓾𝓽 𝓱𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓪 𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓱 𝓬𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓪 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹, 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓰𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓯𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻’𝓼 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓼 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓷𝓮𝓾𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻, 𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓬𝔂, 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓭 𝓼𝓬𝓸𝓻𝓹𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓸𝓶 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓻𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓭𝔂 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓾𝓵𝓲𝓪𝓻 𝓼𝓴𝓲𝓷 𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓭𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓻’𝓼 𝓼𝓪𝓭𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼. 𝓞𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓼𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓰𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓻, 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓵𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼 𝓫𝓮𝓽𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓯𝓽𝓼 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓬𝓪𝓵 𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓮𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓿𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓮𝓬𝓬𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓬 𝓷𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓫𝓸𝓻, 𝓜𝓻. 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝔂, 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓱 𝓼𝓬𝓸𝓻𝓹𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻. 𝓘𝓽’𝓼 𝓭𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓿𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓜𝓻. 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝔂’𝓼 𝓼𝓾𝓫𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓮𝓪𝓷 𝓰𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓸 𝓸𝓯 𝓮𝔁𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓶𝓮𝓮𝓽𝓼 𝓪𝓷 𝓾𝓷𝓾𝓼𝓾𝓪𝓵 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰 𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵 𝓷𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓚𝓲𝓲𝓪𝓻𝓪. 𝓘𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓭𝓲𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻, 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓼𝓸𝓸𝓷 𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓬𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓚𝓲𝓲𝓪𝓻𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓱𝓲𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪 𝓰𝓻𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽, 𝓽𝓸𝓸 – 𝓪 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓸 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓭, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓿𝓲𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓬𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻.𝓭𝔂 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓪 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽. 𝓢𝓱𝓮’𝓼 𝓼𝓸 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓼𝓾𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓰𝓾𝓲𝓵𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓲𝓽 𝓬𝓸𝓶𝓹𝓮𝓵𝓼 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓫𝓸𝓭𝔂 𝓽𝓸 𝓵𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓾𝓷𝓻𝓪𝓿𝓮𝓵 𝓾𝓷𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓼 𝓸𝓯𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓼. 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂’𝓼 𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓲𝓼 𝓾𝓼𝓾𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓮𝓶𝓹𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓮𝓪𝓼𝓲𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓲𝓼 𝓲𝓷𝓿𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓶𝓸𝓼𝓽, 𝓾𝓷𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓼𝓱𝓮 𝓯𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓼 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓶. 𝓗𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻, 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓪𝓫𝓵𝓮 𝓱𝓾𝓷𝓰𝓮𝓻 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓪𝓵𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓭𝔂 𝓫𝓮𝓰𝓾𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓪𝓯𝓮𝓽𝔂. 𝓣𝓻𝓪𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓭 𝓲𝓷 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓽𝓲𝓷𝔂 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓷𝓮𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓾𝓽 𝓱𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓽𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓪 𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓼 𝓶𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓴𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓲𝓬𝓱 𝓬𝓸𝓼𝓽 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓪 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓲𝓰𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓬𝓱𝓸𝓵𝓪𝓻𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓹, 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓰𝓻𝓲𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓼 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓯𝓪𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻’𝓼 𝓭𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓬𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓼 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓷𝓮𝓾𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻, 𝓜𝓮𝓻𝓬𝔂, 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓲𝓼 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓿𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮𝓭 𝓼𝓬𝓸𝓻𝓹𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓿𝓮𝓷𝓸𝓶 𝓲𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓸𝓷𝓵𝔂 𝓻𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓭𝔂 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓾𝓵𝓲𝓪𝓻 𝓼𝓴𝓲𝓷 𝓪𝓲𝓵𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽 𝓵𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓮𝓭 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓭𝓪𝓾𝓰𝓱𝓽𝓮𝓻’𝓼 𝓼𝓪𝓭𝓷𝓮𝓼𝓼. 𝓞𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓪𝓷 𝓪𝓼𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓼𝓸𝓷𝓰𝔀𝓻𝓲𝓽𝓮𝓻, 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓷𝓸𝔀 𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓪𝓵𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓷𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼 𝓫𝓮𝓽𝔀𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝓼𝓱𝓲𝓯𝓽𝓼 𝓪𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓵𝓸𝓬𝓪𝓵 𝓶𝓪𝓻𝓴𝓮𝓽 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓿𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓼𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓮𝓬𝓬𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓻𝓲𝓬 𝓷𝓮𝓲𝓰𝓱𝓫𝓸𝓻, 𝓜𝓻. 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝔂, 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓱 𝓼𝓬𝓸𝓻𝓹𝓲𝓸𝓷𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓫𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓸 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓶𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻. 𝓘𝓽’𝓼 𝓭𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓸𝓯 𝓱𝓮𝓻 𝓻𝓸𝓾𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓿𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓼 𝓽𝓸 𝓜𝓻. 𝓡𝓲𝓭𝓵𝓮𝔂’𝓼 𝓼𝓾𝓫𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓻𝓪𝓷𝓮𝓪𝓷 𝓰𝓻𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓸 𝓸𝓯 𝓮𝔁𝓸𝓽𝓲𝓬 𝓪𝓷𝓲𝓶𝓪𝓵𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓶𝓮𝓮𝓽𝓼 𝓪𝓷 𝓾𝓷𝓾𝓼𝓾𝓪𝓵 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓷𝓰 𝓰𝓲𝓻𝓵 𝓷𝓪𝓶𝓮𝓭 𝓚𝓲𝓲𝓪𝓻𝓪. 𝓘𝓶𝓶𝓮𝓭𝓲𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓵𝔂 𝓮𝓷𝓪𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓸𝓷𝓮 𝓪𝓷𝓸𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻, 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓼𝓸𝓸𝓷 𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓬𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓚𝓲𝓲𝓪𝓻𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓱𝓲𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓪 𝓰𝓻𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓸𝓶𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽, 𝓽𝓸𝓸 – 𝓪 𝓼𝓮𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓽 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝔀𝓲𝓵𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓷 𝓽𝓸 𝓾𝓷𝓭𝓸 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓣𝓮𝓭𝓭𝔂 𝓱𝓪𝓼 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓴𝓷𝓸𝔀𝓷 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓭, 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓿𝓲𝓸𝓵𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓵𝔂 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓮 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓬𝓻𝓸𝓼𝓼 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓲𝓻 𝓹𝓪𝓽𝓱 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓭𝓲𝓼𝓪𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻.

***Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

Genre: Adult | Fiction | Dark | Horror | Novella

5 out of 5 stars!

Perfect blend of eerie and emotional…disturbing yet poetic!

An absolute beautiful piece!

Eric shows his raw talents within these pages. Each and every one of your senses will be at an all time high with his impeccable writing. I thoroughly enjoy a read where it’s almost as if I can smell, touch, feel everything around me but I have never come across something quite like this.

The whole concept of this novella is insane, unlike anything I have read before. You can feel Eric’s emotions seeping through the pages!

Teddy is such an adored and powerful character! Mourning the passing of her father, suffering with her unique ability and fighting her own inner demons. Yet no matter how scarred her life is or how traumatized her family is nothing can alter her unconditional love for her Mother and her Mother’s love for her.

In comes Kiiara to stir up the story, honestly Eric went a complete different direction with this character than I expected. Keeping me completely obsessed!

It has taken me days to mull over this read and yet I still don’t know if I have all my thoughts together. I am wowed yet confused all at the same time, in the best way possible. I want more!…I need more!

I can’t believe Starving Ghosts in Every Thread is Eric’s debut novel.

Thank you so much Eric for sending me a copy to read and review. I am absolutely a dedicated fan and can’t wait to read more of your spellbinding work.

Publisher: Independently published

Release Date: April 27, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your UNRAVELLED Book Worm

-Nichole

You can check out my video review here:

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𝐻𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝑅𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒 𝒟𝒶𝓎 𝒞𝒶𝓃𝒹𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝒷𝒾𝓃𝓈𝑜𝓃

𝓛𝔂𝓻𝓲𝓬𝓼 & 𝓒𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓼

(𝓒𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓭 𝓗𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓼 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 1)

𝐿𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝐸𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑜𝓏𝒶 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝒾𝒸—𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝒽𝑒’𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝑜 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇. 𝐻𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓎, 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓎-𝓁𝑜𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇-𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒-𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝐵𝑒𝓉𝒽, 𝓌𝒽𝑜’𝓈 𝓈𝓊𝒹𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓈𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓃 𝑜𝒻𝒻 𝓂𝑒𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒶𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝒹𝑜𝓃’𝓉 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒸𝒶𝓈𝓈𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓈, 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝑜𝒶𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝓅 𝓈𝒸𝑒𝓃𝑒, 𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑜𝒻𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎. 𝐹𝑜𝓇 𝑜𝓊𝓉𝒸𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝐿𝒶𝓇𝓀, 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝒶 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓈 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓉 𝐵𝓊𝒷𝒷𝓁𝑒’𝓈 𝒪𝒹𝒹𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝓇𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓉𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝓊𝓉𝑒 𝑔𝓊𝓎 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓈 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒱𝒾𝓃𝓎𝓁 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓅 𝓃𝑒𝓍𝓉 𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇—𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝓁𝓎𝓇𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒾𝓃 𝒸𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓈.

𝒜𝓊𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝐸𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂 𝑜𝒻 𝒷𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓈. 𝒟𝑒𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓊𝓃𝓉-𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃𝑒𝒹-𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇, 𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃’𝓉 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈—𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒷𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓊𝓅 𝒶𝒻𝒻𝓁𝒾𝒸𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇’𝓈 𝒾𝓈𝓈𝓊𝑒𝓈. 𝒟𝑒𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓁𝓎𝓇𝒾𝒸-𝓁𝑜𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝐿𝒶𝓇𝓀, 𝒜𝓊𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝓀𝑒𝑒𝓅𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓉 𝒶𝓇𝓂’𝓈 𝓁𝑒𝓃𝑔𝓉𝒽 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓁𝑒𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶 𝓅𝑒𝑒𝓀 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓈.

𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝓇𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝑜𝓌𝓃, 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓇𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈, 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝑜𝒷𝒿𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃 𝑒𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑒 𝒻𝓁𝓊𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝓊𝓃𝑒, 𝐿𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒜𝓊𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓅𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓉𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝑒𝓃𝓂𝑒𝓈𝒽𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝒸𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒. 𝒩𝑜𝓌, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓂𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒷𝓊𝒹𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓉𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝒾𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇. 𝐼𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓁, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎’𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝑒𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎.

*𝒮𝑒𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝟣𝟫𝟪𝟧 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝓃𝑜𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓁𝑔𝒾𝒶! 𝒫𝑒𝓇𝒻𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒻𝒶𝓃𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒮𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒫𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎 𝒾𝓃 𝒫𝒾𝓃𝓀.

Publisher: Midnight Tide Publishing

Date: November 11, 2020

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Buried with the Night : Stories by Syon Das

ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴅᴀʀᴋɴᴇꜱꜱ, ᴄʀɪᴍᴇ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴛᴇʀʀᴏʀ ᴀᴡᴀɪᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ɪɴ ᴛʜɪꜱ ꜱʜᴏʀᴛ ᴄᴏʟʟᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ꜱʏᴏɴ ᴅᴀꜱ. ꜰᴏᴜʀ ᴘʀᴇᴠɪᴏᴜꜱʟʏ ʀᴇʟᴇᴀꜱᴇᴅ ꜱʜᴏʀᴛ ꜱᴛᴏʀɪᴇꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴏɴᴇ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟᴇᴛᴛᴇ, ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴍᴘɪʟᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ꜱᴀᴛɪꜱꜰʏ ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜱɪɴɪꜱᴛᴇʀ ɴᴇᴇᴅꜱ. ꜰᴀɴꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴅɪꜱᴛᴜʀʙɪɴɢ ꜰɪᴄᴛɪᴏɴ, ʜᴏʀʀᴏʀ ᴄɪɴᴇᴍᴀ, ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴇʀɪᴇꜱ ꜱᴜᴄʜ ᴀꜱ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄʀʏᴘᴛ, ꜱʜᴏᴜʟᴅ ꜰᴇᴇʟ ᴀᴛ ʜᴏᴍᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜɪɴ ᴛʜᴇꜱᴇ ᴘᴀɢᴇꜱ.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

Genre: Adult | Fiction | Horror |Short Horror Stories | Novella

4 out of 5 stars!

Photo taken from my Bookstagram: https://www.instagram.com/darkbetweenpages/

It’s hard to review a collection of short stories without giving to many details away but man this collection by Syon was great!

Each and every one of these 5 stories were so different from the next and well written! Syon’s writing was detailed, smooth and had the perfect balance between storyline and character details.

Buried with the Night are those fast paced, mind bending, tricky stories that end off with a huge cliff hanger. Leaving you wanting more not only from those stories themselves but from Syon in general.

Although I can’t go into to much detail for each individual story. I can say I do believe my favorite was Curtis, which also happened to be the very first story in this collection. It was my perfect kind of messed up minds! (to read anyhow). I was instantly consumed after reading Curtis and looked forward to the rest!

I would highly recommend this collection and I can’t thank Syon enough for sending me a copy to read and review. I look forward to reading more of his work in the future!

Publisher: Independently published

Release Date: May 20, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your BURIED Book Worm

-Nichole

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The Plumbers by Terry M. West

𝕃𝕚𝕒𝕞 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℙ𝕚𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕚𝕟 𝕒 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕪 𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕒𝕘𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕪 𝕒 𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖 𝕤𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕟𝕖𝕤𝕤. 𝕀𝕥’𝕤 𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 ℂℝ𝕌𝔻, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕚𝕥 𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟𝕤 𝕚𝕥𝕤 𝕧𝕚𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕣𝕒𝕓𝕚𝕕 𝕜𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕤 𝕜𝕟𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 “𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕘𝕦𝕖𝕣𝕤”. 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕒𝕦𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕨𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕥 𝕨𝕒𝕣 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕘𝕦𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕣𝕦𝕟𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕠𝕨𝕟𝕤, 𝕓𝕠𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙𝕤, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕔𝕚𝕥𝕚𝕖𝕤.

𝕃𝕚𝕒𝕞 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℙ𝕚𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕖 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕗𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕫𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕜𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕒𝕡𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕖𝕨𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕗𝕝𝕠𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘. 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕖𝕣𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕕𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕚𝕣 𝕙𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕. ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕒𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕧𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕕 𝕒 𝕥𝕪𝕡𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕝 𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕃𝕚𝕒𝕞 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ℙ𝕚𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕖. 𝔸 𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕠𝕗 𝕕𝕚𝕘𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕖𝕤, 𝕥𝕨𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕡𝕚𝕡𝕖𝕤, 𝕤𝕠𝕝𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕛𝕠𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕤, 𝕞𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕨𝕚𝕔𝕖, 𝕔𝕦𝕥𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕟𝕔𝕖, 𝕡𝕝𝕦𝕟𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕘, 𝕓𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕘𝕦𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕚𝕟 𝕘𝕣𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕗𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕠𝕟, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕔𝕣𝕦𝕕𝕖 𝕛𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕤.

ℕ𝕠 𝕞𝕒𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕠𝕨 𝕕𝕒𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕠𝕣 𝕕𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕪 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕜, 𝕚𝕥’𝕤 𝕛𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕛𝕠𝕓 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣𝕤!

5 out of 5 stars!

YES! So much yes!

The Plumbers! A zombie read I will go back to time and time again!

Liam and Pierce have officially become some of my all time favourite characters. Two best friends, extremely snarky but they just understand each other, you know? Honestly they may have the best friendship around!

Liam’s wife also fits into this friendship perfectly. I hate saying this….it’s so cliché…but….they are relationship goals! Irene is so cheeky and knows exactly how to put that smile on Liam’s face and you can just tell how much they adore each other. Irene and Pierce also get along so well, they have so much in common, making the perfect character trio!

The world they are living is so bizarre! Liam and Pierce head out each day as if its a normal work day, helping their clients with all their plumbing needs, while becoming these freaking awesome zombie killing machines.

I am amazed on how much fun, gore and hilarious moments Terry was able to pack into this B-rated Horror flick in book form! I most definitely need to get my hands on a physical copy of this and so much more of his work!

Highly recommend this read! Unless vulgar suggestions, etc bother you. Than I would not suggest this read. The humour in this novella may not be for everyone.

Thank you so much to Terry for sending me an e-copy to read a review. Oh and PS the audio book was also done SO well. The narrator did such a phenomenal job!

Can’t wait to dive into more of Terry’s work!

Publisher: Pleasant Storm Entertainment Inc.

Release Date: October 16, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your CRUD Book Worm

-Nichole

You can check out my video review here:

When the Sky Goes Dark by Oliver C. Seneca

𝕎𝕙𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕥’𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕖 𝕠𝕣 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕦𝕡 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕜 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕦𝕥𝕖 𝕘𝕚𝕣𝕝 𝕚𝕟 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕤, 𝕁𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝔹𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕤 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕠𝕗 𝕙𝕚𝕞𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗. 𝕋𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕒 𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝕚𝕥 𝕠𝕟 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕨𝕟. 𝕋𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕤, 𝕚𝕗 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕝𝕪 𝕢𝕦𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕞𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕞.

𝔸𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕒 𝕤𝕦𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕟, 𝕓𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕕𝕚𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕣𝕒𝕨𝕝 𝕠𝕟 𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕡𝕦𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕠𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕒𝕝𝕗 𝕠𝕗 𝕎𝕙𝕚𝕥𝕖 ℍ𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕟 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕘𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕, 𝕁𝕠𝕟 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕞𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕒 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕝𝕪 𝕦𝕡𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕕𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕓𝕪 𝕧𝕚𝕠𝕝𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖. 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕖𝕨𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕝𝕞𝕖𝕕 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕣𝕖𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕔𝕣𝕠𝕤𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕣𝕪, 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕖 𝕔𝕣𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕖𝕤, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕥𝕝𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕚𝕟𝕟𝕠𝕔𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕤 𝕝𝕠𝕤𝕥. 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕪 𝕤𝕒𝕪 𝕚𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕘𝕠𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕘𝕝𝕠𝕓𝕒𝕝.

𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕟𝕠 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕒𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕨𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕣𝕠𝕡𝕙𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕒 𝕔𝕣𝕪𝕡𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝕡𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕞𝕖𝕤𝕤𝕒𝕘𝕖 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤, 𝕁𝕠𝕟 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕟𝕠 𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕚𝕔𝕖 𝕓𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕤𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕠 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕟𝕖𝕤. ℍ𝕚𝕤 𝕗𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕝𝕪 𝕞𝕒𝕪 𝕓𝕖 𝕕𝕖𝕒𝕕 𝕠𝕣 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕤𝕖, 𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕣𝕒𝕘𝕖-𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕒𝕔𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕡𝕒𝕪 𝕟𝕠 𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕪 𝕥𝕠 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕠𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕪𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥 𝕗𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤.

ℕ𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕚𝕤 𝕔𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟 𝕖𝕩𝕔𝕖𝕡𝕥 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘: 𝕁𝕠𝕟 𝕨𝕒𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕓𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕤𝕜𝕪 𝕘𝕠𝕖𝕤 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕜.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

Genre: Adult | Fiction | Horror | Apocalyptic | Thriller

4 out of 5 stars!

Don’t go out after dark!

Jon seems like a simple character but the further into the story you go you find out just how complex he is!

When the Sky Goes Dark starts off as a slow burn, getting to know your main character and what he’s all about but it’s not long and before you know it all chaos breaks loose. People are dropping left and right but the most terrifying thing happens when the sky goes dark!

Honestly and I say this will 100 positivity! The moment I jumped into this read I felt it read like a B-rated horror film…. and I was ALL for it! So much going on, mayhem everywhere, people going bonkers but yet Oliver snuck in the perfect amount of humour! As the story went on we didn’t completely lose the B-rated vibes but it shifted into more of a deeper, heartfelt story when Jon was searching for his loved ones and fellow survivors while feeling all the pain and suffering. People fighting to survive, doing anything they needed to do, even finding themselves doing things they could never see themselves doing… all in order to live through another night.

Jon has to learn how to survive keeping himself and hopefully those around him safe. Jumping into this role that’s not his usual self, you get to see his quirks and true personality traits shine though. As I mentioned he became a very complex character and where he may have been very predictable at time, others you had absolutely no idea where he was going to go with it!

Jon’s journeys and the people he comes across only become more intense and it’s almost as if he starts to loose his own sanity.

I highly recommend this read if you are into those end of the world, apocalyptic type reads. I can’t thank Oliver enough for sending me a copy to read and review. I look forward to more of his work in the future.

Publisher: Hellbender Books

Release Date: October 29, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading

Your Dark Book Worm

-Nichole

You can check out my video review here:

Gray Matters: A Novel by John Webster Gastil

Can the digital networks that record our footprints hold us steady when dementia threatens to push us off the path? This question has real stakes for data analyst Charlie Sanders. His best hope for a father succumbing to Alzheimer’s comes from assistive technology that Charlie helps design for a scrappy startup. Despite early successes, Charlie has growing doubts about the motives of each of his colleagues – the eccentric CEO in Seattle, the call center guru in India, and the Trump-loving Aussie transplant who keeps the books. His worries grow when the company takes on a clandestine client who occupies the Oval Office. Will Charlie keep his father and his country on track, or turn a whole generation into glitches?

*** Synopsis copied from amazon. ca

Genre: Adult | Fiction | Medical Fiction | Technology

3 out of 5 stars!

An interesting concept! The Synopsis really intrigued me.

Take a moment to really think what it would be like to have a technology such as this existing today.

Would it be a game changer?

The story starts off with the perspective of Charlie’s father, Barry. I was immediately pulled into the story! I enjoyed when the story was told from his perspective. Hearing his thoughts and reactions towards this technology his son helped create was stern yet humours at times. I also thoroughly enjoyed Charlie’s interactions with his father. It painted a realistic relationship when connecting with a loved one suffering from Dementia or Alzheimer’s. The emotional strains are prominent for sure but you will never stop loving and caring for that person and Charlie showed that passion for his father in the story. Working hard not to correct his father when he mixed Charlie up with his brother or trying hard not to feel the hit to the heart when his father would go on with glowing memories and stories about his brother. Charlie knew his father was suffering and nothing was intentional.

Unfortunately Barry’s direct perspective and relationship with Charlie was not highlighted enough in the story, in my personal opinion. I would have loved way more from him, but of course that was not the main feature.

I was worried the heavy political aspect behind the story was going to pull my attention away but surprisingly it didn’t. However; I did find that I did get lost in the switching from perspective to perspective and how they all came together in the end. I found with the choppy transitions the story was not as engaging, perhaps I could even say a bit dry and unfortunately lost my focus. That being said John did send me an e-copy for review and when I realised I was running out of time in order to get my review up for the target date, I turned to the audiobook. Perhaps the narration didn’t help in these moments. Again this is just my own opinion.

Over all the story was interesting. I would like to see more from John. If he was to write a whole novel on Barry and Charlie, I know I would be right there!

Thank you so much John for sending me a copy to read and review.

Publisher: Cosmic Egg Books

Release Date: July 31, 2020

And of course thank you all for reading

Your Tech Book Worm

-Nichole

You can check out my video review here:

𝐖𝐡𝐨’𝐬 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?: 𝐀 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐃𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐑𝐢𝐨

𝒞𝑅𝐸𝐸𝒫𝒴 𝒮𝐿𝒪𝒲 𝐵𝒰𝑅𝒩 𝒜𝒮𝐼𝒜𝒩 𝐻𝒪𝑅𝑅𝒪𝑅 𝐼𝒩 𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝒱𝐸𝐼𝒩 𝒪𝐹 “𝒯𝐻𝐸 𝑅𝐼𝒩𝒢”

𝒜 𝓌𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓌𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝑒𝒹𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔. 𝒜 𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉𝓂𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓋𝒾𝓁. 𝐿𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒷𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓋𝑒. 𝒜 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓈𝑒𝒹. 𝐿𝒾𝓂𝒷𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒶 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝑜𝓌𝓃.

𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓈𝑒 𝑔𝒽𝑜𝓈𝓉𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓇𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃𝑔𝑒, 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝑒𝒹, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓇𝓂 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝒸𝑜𝓇𝓃𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓂𝑜𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓃 𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝐼𝓃𝒹𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈𝒾𝒶. 𝑅𝒾𝒸𝒽 𝒾𝓃 𝒸𝓊𝓁𝓉𝓊𝓇𝒶𝓁 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓉𝑜𝓃𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒾𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒜𝓈𝒾𝒶𝓃, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓈𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝑒𝓆𝓊𝒶𝓁 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑔𝓇𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓆𝓊𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝑜𝑒𝓉𝒾𝒸, 𝒾𝓇𝓇𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁, 𝓊𝓃𝓊𝓈𝓊𝒶𝓁 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓊𝓃𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈𝒶𝓁.

𝒟𝓇𝒶𝓌𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝓃 𝓁𝑜𝒸𝒶𝓁 𝒻𝑜𝓁𝓀 𝓉𝒶𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓋𝑒𝓃𝑔𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝒷𝒶𝓃𝓈𝒽𝑒𝑒𝓈, 𝒹𝓊𝓈𝓀-𝒹𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓂𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝒶𝒹, 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝒻𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓇𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝓈𝓅𝑜𝓇𝓉 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝑒𝓅, 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝒶𝒷𝓎𝓈𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓃 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓈: 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒹.

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4 out of 5 stars!

Interesting stories!

I enjoy Urban Legends! I find it fascinating to hear stories from all around the world, unique to that culture. Dimas did a great job sharing these stories with the world.

Who’s There is something I would call comfy, cozy horror.

I didn’t find these stories to be overwhelmingly terrifying, you know those reads that leave you crawling in your skin, keep you up at night and looking over your shoulder every where you go? I found these horror tales to be gentle yet very enjoyable and easily consumed . Perfect for a horror newbie, someone looking to dip their toes into the dark fiction world or someone looking to learn more about dark tales from around the world, such as myself.

Although these stories are not overly terrifying they will twist and play with your mind, keeping you on your toes.

Dimas Rio did provide me with an e-copy to read and review, however when I saw it was on audio-book I wanted to give it a go. I was pleasantly surprised with the audio version. The narrator did a great job of bringing the eerie feels of the stories together.

My question to you is …. Who’s There? Are you gutsy enough to find out?

Thank you so much Dimas for sending me an e-copy to read and review. I am intrigued and look forward to more of your work.

Publisher: Independently published

Release Date: December 16, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading

Your CREEPY Book Worm

-Nichole

You can check out my video review here: