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Review: All Your Twisted Secrets

“Welcome to dinner, and again, congratulations on being selected. Now you must do the selecting.”

What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it’s a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill…or else everyone dies.

Amber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive, but that might be easier said than done. No one knows how they’re all connected or who would want them dead.

As they retrace the events over the past year that might have triggered their captor’s ultimatum, it becomes clear that everyone is hiding something.

And with the clock ticking down, confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into panic as they race to answer the biggest question: Who will they choose to die?

Review: Gossamer Falls

Evil comes in beautiful forms….

Lawrence Karrier is the first to see the beauty while out on his morning run.

A solitary thin cloud drifting down from the mountains and settling into the lake, like nothing he has ever seen before. Later in the day as the local factory empties and the bar fills up, the spectacle of a hundred such clouds against the evening sky beguiles the whole town.

That is until someone is unfortunate enough to touch one.

After a night of horror, the people of Gossamer Falls have to pick up the pieces and try to move on. What will they do with the now rock hard cloud formations strewn all over the place? And what of the white liquid that seems to rush around inside each one? Tourist season is almost upon them and without the dollars that brings the town is doomed.

When townspeople start acting very strange, things begin to get very much worse for everyone.

Review: The Stop

What would you do to protect what’s yours?

Donnie’s whole world changed the day he met Nate at The Stop, a cruising spot outside a small Texas town. Nate saw him, knew him, cared for him, and then one day, in an incomprehensible act of violence, Nate was taken from him.

Broken but not beaten, Donnie steps into Nate’s role at The Stop with one goal in mind: Find the man who murdered his lover and see justice served no matter the cost.

Content warning: Violence, sexual situations, sex work, rough trade.

Review: Dracula

Title: Dracula Author: Bram Stoker Release: 1897 Format: Audiobook, Physical For William. Happy Halloween, love. <3 This review will contain spoilers. This is not the norm for my blog. Dracula is the first story I’ve ever read that’s comprised entirely of letters. The only other story that’s similar is Frankenstein, which I’ve previously reviewed. It… Continue reading Review: Dracula

Review: Net Impact

Dick Thornby is not Hollywood’s idea of a spy. In his rough and tumble job there are no tailored Italian suits, no bimbos eager to please, and no massive underground fortresses built by evil overlords seeking world domination – just an endless series of sinister threats to the safety and security of the billions of mundane citizens of the planet. Sure, Dick’s tough and he knows a few tricks to help him get out of a tight spot, even if his boss accuses him of over-reliance on an abundance of explosives.

But he’s also got a mortgage, a wife upset by his frequent absences on “business” trips, and an increasingly alienated teen-age son who spends way too much time playing in gaming worlds on the computer.

When a young computer expert back at the Philadelphia headquarters for The Subsidiary, an international espionage agency created in the aftermath of 9/11, discovers that bad guys are involved in a vast conspiracy, Dick is forced to partner with the espionage neophyte to battle evil on multiple fronts, leading to a final confrontation that incorporates real-world conspiracy theories and cutting-edge technology.

In the end, Dick can save his partner, save his marriage, save his son, or save the world, but he can’t do it all.

Review: Death Tally

Taliesin Throckmartin killed her family on her wedding day.

She remembers everything. Her own two hands ripping them apart. The screams. The shocked, blood-spattered face of her fiancé. The only thing she doesn’t know is…why? She loves her parents, and likes helping people. She might be a little different, as an autistic druid, but that doesn’t make her a murderer. With no other culprits in sight, however, her fiancé commits her to the Broadmoor Asylum, where she will be forced to live out the rest of her days on medication that stunts her magical abilities.

Enter the wild and likely insane Louis Blou, a man who claims to be the last of an extinct clan of shapeshifters. Refusing to let Taliesin waste away with the rest of the inmates, Louis orchestrates their escape, leaving a trail of dead bodies in their wake. On the way home to his ragtag pack of criminals, evidence of a conspiracy is uncovered. The Five Families who hold sway over Louisiana territory are plotting to resurrect forbidden magic, using it to enslave an entire race. With a chance to finally discover the truth of Taliesin’s tragedy, heal old rifts and thwart dastardly plans, Taliesin and Louis must join forces to stop the Five Families before it’s too late.

Review: Haunting You

A past life. A dangerous gift. An unlikely romance.

In the haunted halls of her boarding school, Meredith Monroe hides a dangerous gift. She can communicate with the dead.

Desperate not to stand out, she worries her powers may attract the wrong attention. Like from the alluring but totally not-for-her new student Nathan Vale.

Meredith is impressed Nathan isn’t fazed by the supernatural – not even when a ghost tries to kill him by tossing him off the Rotunda balcony. She’s less impressed with his insistence they share a romantic connection that spans centuries and lifetimes together.

Nathan refuses to let the mistakes of their past influence their chances at happiness this time around. But getting Meredith to fall in love with him a second time may be more deadly than either of them bargain for.

Review: Shelter: A Gripping Suspense Thriller

When Gabriel Warner loses his job, he and his deaf 10-year-old, Anne, hit rock-bottom. So when a new opportunity presents itself, Gabriel jumps at the chance, even though it means heading into the biggest blizzard to hit upstate New York in 20 years.

But hope turns to peril when they’re derailed by a car accident.

Desperate for shelter, they find refuge in an empty house deep in the woods.

Jake Pryor has been a broken man since the senseless loss of his family during a home invasion.

Hell-bent on protecting his new wife and children, he’s constructed an impenetrable fortress to keep them safe. However, while he and his family are out of town, he’s alerted about a break-in.

Able to remotely operate the security system, Jake activates the VaultMode feature, ensnaring the intruders until he can arrive with the authorities.

Gabriel and Anne are now trapped without electricity, communication, food, or water.

They managed to escape the storm, but will they escape their shelter?

Review: Dismantling Vindictiveness

Christopher Parker’s architectural firm is in trouble. Business has dwindled during the recession. The firm’s budget is decreasing at a breakneck pace. Employees fear their funds are being tampered with, and attacks on executives outside of his firm are resulting in murder. Caught in a frightening downward spiral, Christopher, operating only on suspicions, works desperately to unravel the mystery. But time is running out on Christopher in more ways than one. While a saboteur threatens his career, a serious illness threatens his life. Christopher has to find the culprit and make peace with those he has hurt before it’s too late. And help comes from the unlikeliest of sources.

Review: Brightness Falls

Brightness Falls isn’t just the name of the TV show that womanizing man-child Andrew Ware has been painstakingly creating for the last couple years, it’s also his hometown. A town that he loves as much as he hates.

By request of no one, Andrew returns home to help his sister separate from her husband, only to become sidetracked by a beautiful woman. A few drinks and few compliments later the woman is dead, killed in a tragic oral sex accident. In which Andrew would have lost his own life if it weren’t for the dapperly dressed, antler-headed, human skeleton named Doug. Who loves Andrew’s work, but escaped The Other Side to warn Andrew of a self-proclaimed god with desires to return to Brightness Falls.

Wow, that is a lot to take in. That above paragraph is jammed packed with a lot of crap. Thou the oral sex accident sounds interesting, doesn’t it? Let’s take the whole thing down a notch. Let’s try it again, please…

With the town’s annual festival, Brightfest, which commemorates the deadly day it’s population collectively walked to the bottom of the lake, only days away, and the threat of an inadvertently bloodthirsty, self-proclaimed god returning to reenact the event, Andrew is sent scrambling to save his sister, friends, lovers, and the town he’s loathed in, before the god is able to complete his predestined experiment to bringing his wife back. If Andrew can get out of his own way to unravel the towns dark secrets, as well as his own, maybe he’ll come out of it with a new TV show idea. Oh and save the town.

Well f–k, that wasn’t much better. Still, a lot going on in that paragraph, too. Here let me try…

This is the story of a man who loves women, hates his home town, and has to goes through a shit tone of shit for both of them. Oh and someone dies during oral sex, can’t leave that out.

Boom nailed it! Best book description ever – Your Mom