Book News and Reviews

Author: Heather Graham
Book: Deadly Night
Genre: Murder Mystery/Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Julia Comments: I finally am getting around to reviewing Deadly Night by Heather Graham as I promised for horror month.  Deadly Night is the first in The Flynn Brother’s Trilogy and I, for one, enjoyed it.  The book contains murder, suspense, mystery and the supernatural.  It’s one of […]

Author: Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
Book: Locke and Key - Welcome to Lovecraft
Genre: Graphic Novel/Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments:  I have always liked comics - but the graphic novel is pretty new to me.  I am a fan of Joe Hill and I bought this novel because of the enjoyment of his previous books.
I was pleasantly surprised […]

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Book: Strange Candy
Genre: Horror/Fantasy/Sci Fi
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: I really bit off more than I could chew here.  When choosing books, I thought, “Hey, it’s a book of short stories - let’s shake things up”.  I had never read Laurell Hamilton before and I didn’t know what a fantastic writer she was. 
Strange Candyreally […]

HG Wellsis known as one of the fathers of Science Fiction and in my opinion, some of his stories qualify as Sci Fi/Horror stories.
War of the Worlds is undoubtedly a Science Fiction novel, but it’s also arguably a horror novel.  There are horrible monsters (if aliens), lots of blood, disaster, death and violence.  It’s just that the […]

Is Ray Bradbury truly a “horror” author?  I think he’s one of those authors you cannot pin down to any particular genre, except to say that what he writes is classic “genre”  fiction (meaning anywhere from Sci Fi/Fantasy to Supernatural to Horror). Bradbury’s works from Fahrenheit 451 to the classic short story compilation The Illustrated Man all the way […]

 Author: Terry Pratchett
Book: Making Money
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: Making Money is the next installment of Moist Von Lipwig’s adventures into government. You may recall Moist from my very recent post about the book Going Postal by Terry Pratchett.  In Making Money, Moist has been Postmaster General for a year and is frankly, bored.  The Patrician […]

Book: Going Postal
Author: Terry Pratchett
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments: The first Pratchett book (that I know of) with the character Moist Von Lipwig - confidence trickster extraordinaire.  It begins with the ending of his life as a confidence trickster and forger.  Moist undertook the name of Albert Spangler to dupe people, and he is to be […]

Book: Good Omens
Authors: Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 10
Comments:  This is the book that got me into Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett - both of whom I am slightly obsessed with now. 
“Well,” you say, “she must have read that book a long time ago, why review it now?”
Because I’ve reread it, that’s why.
Anyway, […]

Just so anyone who is expecting a review knows, these are the books I’m currently reading:
- An Embarrassment of Riches by Gerald Hansen - I’m almost done with this one.  Gerald asked me to review it and he was also nice enough to send me a copy of the book.  So far I would say I […]

Book: Ravenous
Author: Ray Garton
Genre: Fantasy
Julia Rating: 6
Comments: Ravenous is about a werewolf infecting a small town in Northern California via sexually transmitted disease. In this book the author proposes becoming a werewolf is, much like AIDs or syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease. Unfortunately, the only way to cure this disease is death […]