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 [...]

Author: Dean Koontz Book: The Darkest Evening of the Year Genre: Horror/Suspense/Thriller Julia Rating: 9 Comments: I have to make an admission to start out with. I’ve never read Dean Koontz before horror month, so if I am missing some kind of a theme (aside from an affinity for golden retrievers) that is obvious to [...]

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: Tana French Book: In The Woods Genre: Suspense/Thriller/Detective Julia Rating: 7 (for writing skill) Comments: Sorry, this book isn’t really horror. I thought it was, but it turned out to be a psychological thriller. In the Woods is a book that showed great promise in the beginning, throughout the middle and failed (in my [...]

Author: Charlaine Harris Book: Dead Until Dark Genre: Horror/Murder Mystery/Romance Julia Rating: 10 Comments: Dead Until Dark is a cute and funny vampire romance/mystery.  I think it’s a little silly to call any vampire book “horror”, but from what I can tell, that’s how the bookstores classify it, so I put the mad combination up [...]

Author: Kathy Reichs Book: Devil Bones Genre: Murder Mystery/Thriller Julia Rating: 10 Comments: I screwed up on this one… it’s not horror at all! However, I recommend it if you like the TV series Bones, because it’s a Temperance Brennan novel (she’s the main character of the TV show). Temperance is a forensic anthropologist that [...]

Author: Scott Sigler  Book: Infected: A Novel Genre: Horror/Sci Fi/Thriller Julia Rating: 10 Comments: Scott Sigler is one of those “new” authors who has actually been kicking around on independent channels for years. His newest book (the first he’s released with a major publisher) is Infected.  This is the story of a terrible infection contracted [...]

Author: John Scalzi Book: The Sagan Diary Genre: Sci Fi/Romance/Introspective Julia Rating: 10 Comment: The Sagan Diary is a novelette written in John Scalzi’s universe of friends, foes, aliens and artificial bodies.  The book is based in the world created in John Scalzi’s book Old Man’s War, which – now that I’ve read The Sagan [...]

 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 [...]

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 [...]