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Sadie Hartmann Book Review: LITTLE EVE by Catriona Ward

Sadie Hartmann Book Review: LITTLE EVE by Catriona Ward

Little Eve by Catriona Ward (The Last House on Needless Street, Sundial)
Release Date: October 11th, 2022 (originally published in 2018, winner of The Shirley Jackson Award and the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror)
General Genre: Horror, Gothic
Subgenre/Themes: Doomsday cult/snake cult, patriarchy, multiple POVs, strong female protagonists, motherhood, pregnancy, murder-mystery, historical fiction
Writing Style: rich, dense, atmospheric prose

What You Need to Know: The book opens with a tale told from the end, a group of people killed in a seemingly ritualistic...


Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: A History of Fear by Luke Dumas

Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: A History of Fear by Luke Dumas

A History of Fear by Luke Dumas (debut novel)
Release Date: December 6th, 2022

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General Genre: Horror, Thriller, Suspense
Subgenre/Themes: Crime-Thriller, Cult-like church, spiritual abuse, the Devil, paranoia, phobias, mental illness, college life, Scotland, Ghostwriting, LBGTQIA+
Writing Style: First Person POV, Intricately plotted, epistolary & narrative

What You Need to Know: Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil's Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it.

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Sadie Hartmann's Review: THE TRESPASS COLLECTION An Amazon Original Series

Sadie Hartmann's Review: THE TRESPASS COLLECTION An Amazon Original Series

KU Recommendation: The Trespass Collection

FREE with your KU subscription or just a few bucks each, The Trespass Collection is an Amazon Original Series edited by Jeff Vandermeer worth checking out. I just read all 6 stories and I'll rank them for you and share a little bit...


Cover Reveal: RAINBOW FILTH by Tim Meyer

Cover Reveal: RAINBOW FILTH by Tim Meyer

 

RAINBOW FILTH by Tim Meyer

Release Date: September 5th, 2023

Cover Art: Matthew Revert

Rainbow Filth is a weirdo horror novella about a small cult that believes a rare psychedelic substance can physically transport them to another universe.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tim Meyer dwells in a dark cave near the Jersey Shore. He’s the author of more than fifteen novels, including Malignant Summer, The Switch House, Dead Daughters, Limbs, and many other titles. When he's not working on the next book, he's usually hanging...


Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: ON THE SAVAGE SIDE by Tiffany McDaniel

Sadie Hartmann's Book Review: ON THE SAVAGE SIDE by Tiffany McDaniel

 

On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel

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Release Date: February 2023
Knopf Publishing Group-Thank you for the NetGalley review copy and to Tiffany McDaniel for reaching out
General genre: Literary, Domestic Drama, Crime
Subgenre/Themes: Small town, generational addiction, drugs (heroin), twins, sexual abuse, sex workers, rehab, missing women and girls, corruption, victims, trauma
Writing Style: Immersive, past & present POV, literary

What you need to know: Twin sisters are being raised by their mother and aunt in poverty and violence. A coming-of-age tale, the reader comes to intimately share in Arcade...