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My Review ~ Zipline by P. Anthony Michael

Posted: August 18, 2023 in horror, reviews, suspense, thriller
Tags: Horror, review, suspense, thriller

Welcome to the book tour for Zipline by P. Anthony Michael. Read on for my review!

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Zipline

Publication Date: June 2022

Genre: Thriller/ Suspense

If Gail knew Uncle Perkins’ stories were true, she wouldn’t have taken her friends up that mountain.

The plan was simple. Hike, camp, and ride the zipline back down the mountain. But Uncle Perkins’ stories are true, and the horrors are real. Now the simple plan is the only plan they have to get off that mountain or disappear, remaining there forever.

Zipline is an immediately gripping, fast-paced, unique story that will keep you entertained until the last sent

Available on Amazon

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MY REVIEW

I have a bucket list and taking a ride on a zipline is on the list. After reading this book, I’m sure I’ll be imaging what scary things I’m rushing past as I zip along above the tree canopy.

Coming in at just 82 pages in my paperback copy, Zipline packs an eerie punch. The author managed to flesh out his characters too, and that’s no mean feat with so few pages.

There’s something strange happening at Finch Mountain. Nicknamed BEASTLY, that tag and an old man’s warning should have been enough to deter Gail and her friends. That old saying, “Curiosity Killed The Cat” turns out to be oh so true as they venture into the dark forest. And the second part of that saying, “Satisfaction Brought Them Back” proves not so true.

The action begins almost immediately and the story “zips” along. Will they get off the mountain? Who survives? Anyone? My curiosity was answered and what fun it was finding out.

4 STARS

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About the Author

Michael received a creative writing certificate from the University of West Virginia in the late 90s. He’s been running a successful writer’s group called For The Love Of Words for almost two decades. When he has time, he teaches in the local library Story 101 – How to create a story. He has won in every category over a five-year period in a state-funded wordsmith competition in Poetry, Essay, Short Story, and One-Act Play.

P. Anthony Michael

Book Tour Organized By:

R&R Book Tours

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For a list of my reviews go HERE.

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Books From The Back Log #83 ~ Stolen Roads by Randy Chandler

Posted: August 17, 2023 in horror
Tags: Books From The Back Log, Horror

If you’re like me, you have a pile of books beckoning to you from your lists. Carole hosts this fun feature where you can share some of those older books and perhaps nudge you to finally read them. If you want to join in on the fun, head over to Carole’s Random Life In Books and leave a link to your post.

Stolen Roads

by Randy Chandler

Genre: Horror

Synopsis

“It was like I was riding on a stolen road, like somebody’d just shanghaied the road and plopped it down in some foreign land.” Thus, “stolen roads” entered the esoteric lexicon of popular culture.

William Kidd’s travels on stolen roads begin when he’s a boy on leave from a psychiatric hospital and survives a car accident that kills both his parents.

Although hallucinations are nothing new to him, Kidd knows the otherworldly thing crouched on his dying father’s chest at the scene of the accident is no hallucination. Nothing in his mental inventory of the planet’s natural creatures jibes with this pebble-skinned thing nearly as big as a man, a terrifying beast with spiky shoulders and lizard-like snout, its long knobby limbs folded insect-fashion as if it might suddenly leap or fly away without warning.

The beast claws the boy’s face, giving him an indelible totem-mark scar he still wears as a young man when he goes on the road in search of the creatures he calls “trocs.”

Kidd soon meets the Fluckers, a married couple claiming to have happened upon a “lost road,” and they entice him to join them on an expedition to ride a suspect blacktop into what may be an alternate world.

When Kidd’s psych-hospital alumnus Rose Rivers the trippy earth-obsessed rock hound pops back into his life, she invites herself along on what she calls a trip to The Big Nowhere. Rounding out the team is Rita Younger: dive bar owner, former biker club member and acknowledged “badass babe.”

But The Big Nowhere is filled with otherworldly dangers. And the road home could be a dead end.

Buckle up and hit the road for a thrilling ride into the dark fantastic. A literary collision of horror and fantasy on the road to a new kind of hell.

Amazon

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I added this back in October 2019.

Another good one for my Horror Month list. I do love otherworldly scary beast stories.

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Books From The Back Log #82 ~ A Terror Triptych by Kasey Fallon

Posted: August 10, 2023 in horror
Tags: Books From The Back Log, Horror

A Terror Triptych

by Kasey Fallon

Genre: Horror

Synopsis

Three stories. One island. No hope.

A triptych ~ three parts of one whole, reflecting your worst fears.

The new boy in school is finally making friends. On an island with centuries-old secrets, the numerous missing persons flyers are the least of Ryley’s problems as vengeance blurs the lines between then and now in The Sleepover.

A sister goes to an insane asylum, caring for her sister after a disastrous incident. But strange moments lead to terror inside the ward as she realizes she might not be able to get back out. Can she escape being The Visitor forever?

Tai and his group of friends are on the perfect vacation; blue skies, perfect waves, and a beautiful island. The brochures didn’t mention how many people died or went missing there every year, but the locals know to never go into The Copse; a grove of trees where people vanish. When Tai is forced to enter the forest he’ll do anything to survive what’s coming for them.

Amazon

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I added this back in October 2022.

A good one for my Horror Month list.

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A World Full Of Monsters…… Door To Door, Night By Night ~ Review And Giveaway

Posted: August 8, 2023 in giveaways, horror, reviews, Supernatural, thriller
Tags: giveaway, Horror, review, supernatural thriller

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the DOOR to DOOR, NIGHT by NIGHT Vol. 1 by Cullen Bunn & Sally Cantirino Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours.

Check out my Review and make sure to enter the giveaway!

DOOR TO DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT Vol. 1
: A World Full Of Monsters

By Cullen Bunn
& Sally Cantirino (Illustrations)

Pub. Date: July 25, 2023

Publisher: Vault Comics

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 128

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/DOOR-to-DOOR-NIGHT-by-NIGHT-Vol-1

A supernatural horror thriller
splattered with dark humor in the vein of Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend’s
Exorcism), Stranger Things, Welcome to Night Vale, Supernatural, and
the Midnight, Texas series (Charlaine Harris), DOOR TO
DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT Vol. 1: A World Full of Monsters tells the tale
of a traveling sales team who find that once certain doors open, they are
impossible to close.

SALES PEOPLE BY DAY. MONSTER HUNTERS BY NIGHT.

It’s 1987, and the Heritage Mills sales team travels from town to town,
knocking on doors. They’re the best at what they do… which also means they’re
the worst. They’re broken, each and every one of them, haunted by closets so
full of skeletons, they’re bursting. When they discover a terrible secret
behind one fateful door, it opens their eyes to a world full of real monsters
hidden in every small town.

Knock, knock. What’s there? Open the door if you dare…

From all-star creators, writer Cullen Bunn (Harrow County, The Last Book
You’ll Ever Read) and artist Sally Cantirino (I Walk With Monsters,
Human Remains) comes the story of a motley crew going to battle against
supernatural evil throughout the American South.

For fans of the devilishly delicious blend of nostalgic horror and dark humor,
small town secrets, moonlight fright, Stranger Things, Welcome to Night
Vale, My Best Friend’s Exorcism, IT, Summer of Night, The
Pallbearer’s Club, The Autumnal, Proctor Valley Road, Gideon Falls, The Boys,
B.P.R.D., and Something Is Killing the Children.

Volume 1 collects issues #1-4 of the smash 12-issue series!

“It’s all kinds of demon-hunting, low-life fun!” — Cavan Scott
(Comic writer, screenwriter & New York Times bestselling
author. STAR WARS: THE HIGH REPUBLIC; TITANS UNITED; SHADOW SERVICE;
THE WARD; DEAD SEAS).

“Bunn and Cantirino, as a collaborative team, create a unique, beautiful, and
terrifying world filled with monsters we could not imagine.” – Gatecrashers

“…this kind of horror storytelling … delivers across the board.” – The Fandom
Post

“A beautiful example of the merging of humor and horror.” – Gatecrashers

“…delivers on its promise …This is absolutely worth picking up.” – Comicon.com

“…supernatural horror at its best.” – Capes and Tights

MY REVIEW

Supernatural horror. I’m in for that. And there’s plenty of it in this book. Along with a cast of nice and not so nice characters. And it’s filled with action displayed in colorful, awesome graphics.

A group of door to door sales people find so much more than just some customers who slam doors in their face. They discover that monsters are real. And this is where the story takes off. You know that scene where there’s a creepy house and you know they shouldn’t go near it? Well, this group of individuals don’t take the missing person’s posters plastered all over it seriously and they enter. Normally this would have me screaming, “Don’t you watch horror movies, guys?” But nope, I was all for finding out what was inside myself. And boy did they, and me. From then on it’s bloody good fun.

Do I want to read about these characters again? Yes. And the good news is there is more coming. Can’t wait.

4 STARS

About Cullen Bunn:

Cullen Bunn is a New
York Times bestselling author and prolific writer of
horror/supernatural comics series and graphic novels including THE
SIXTH GUN, HARROW COUNTY, BONE PARISH, THE DAMNED, THE EMPTY MAN, THE GHOUL
NEXT DOOR, BASILISK, SHADOWMAN, and many other titles including The
Last Book You’ll Ever Read for Vault Comics. He has fought for his
life against mountain lions and performed on stage as the World’s Youngest Hypnotist.

About Sally Cantirino:

Sally Cantirino is
a comic artist and illustrator currently based in New Jersey. She has been
self-publishing comics and zines since she was a teenager. Her recent
comics work includes I Walk With Monsters and Human
Remains for Vault Comics, “The Final Girls”, “Last Song”,
and “We Have To Go Back”. She has also done artwork for World Champ Game Co and
bands like La Dispute and Murder By Death.

Website | Twitter | Instagram | TikTok | Goodreads

2 winners will receive a finished copy of DOOR to DOOR, NIGHT by NIGHT Vol. 1, US Only.

Ends August 15th, midnight EST.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

7/17/2023	Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer	Review/IG Post
7/18/2023	@enjoyingbooksagain	IG Review
7/19/2023	Character Madness and Musings	Interview
7/20/2023	The Book Countess	Review/IG Post
7/21/2023	Fieldstone_lfl	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic
7/22/2023	Tara’s Book Addiction	IG Post

Week Two:

7/23/2023	Sadie’s Spotlight	Interview
7/24/2023	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt
7/25/2023	Writer of Wrongs	Excerpt
7/26/2023	Locks, Hooks and Books	Review
7/27/2023	Brandi Danielle Davis	Review/IG Post
7/28/2023	#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog	Excerpt/IG Post
7/29/2023	@by_hckilgour	IG Review

Week Three:

7/30/2023	A Blue Box Full of Books	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic/TikTok Post
7/31/2023	Bookish In Bed	Review/IG Post
8/1/2023	Books With a Chance	Review/IG Post
8/2/2023	Country Mamas With Kids	Review/IG Post
8/3/2023	Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers	Review/IG Post
8/4/2023	OneMoreExclamation	Review/IG Post
8/5/2023	celiamcmahonreads	Review/IG Post

Week Four:

8/6/2023	@bookish_aly_cat	IG Review
8/7/2023	@My.Bookish.Mind	Review/IG Post
8/8/2023	FUONLYKNEW	Review
8/9/2023	Jaime_of_gryffindor	IG Review
8/10/2023	@enthuse_reader	IG Review/TikTok Post
8/11/2023	Two Points of Interest	Review

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For a list of my reviews go HERE.

For a list of free eBooks updated daily go HERE

To see all of my giveaways go HERE.

They’ve Staked Their Claim……… West Of Sundown ~ Review And Giveaway

Posted: August 2, 2023 in giveaways, horror, reviews, Western
Tags: giveaway, Horror, review, western

I am thrilled to be hosting a review spot on the WEST OF SUNDOWN Vol. 2 by Tim Seeley & Aaron Campbell, Jim Terry Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours.

Check out my review and make sure to enter the giveaway!

WEST OF SUNDOWN Vol. 2: Youthful Blasphemy

Authors: Tim Seeley & Aaron Campbell, Jim Terry (Illustrations)

Pub. Date: July 25, 2023

Publisher: Vault Comics

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 144

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/WEST-OF-SUNDOWN-Vol-2

From Dusk Till Dawn and American Vampire meet The League of
Extraordinary Gentlemen in this terrifying tale of the Old West,
survival, blood, and monsters.

La Sangre es la Vida

The New Mexico town of Sangre De Moro has accepted its strange new residents:
beautiful vampire Constance Der Abend, her thrall, Frankenstein’s monster, and
the would-be mad scientist, Griffin. But a new threat has come for the
evil-saturated soil of the mesa: Dr. Moreau and his strange companions.

West of Sundown – where Hammer Horror and literary monsters
stake their claim in old New Mexico.

A Western tale of survival starring a cast of literary horrors from the
diabolical minds of Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash, Vampire: The Masquerade, Money
Shot), Aaron Campbell (Hellblazer, Infidel), and Jim Terry (Vampirella,
Come Home, Indio)!

For fans of Westworld, Red Dead Redemption, American
Vampire, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Hammer
Horror films, Universal monsters, and Preacher!

Collects the entire second arc, issues #6-#10, of the smash-hit series!

“If you like your horse operas bloody, if you thought The
Searchers was fine, except for all the missing vampires and werewolves
and monsters, then … Tim Seeley, Aaron Campbell, and Jim Terry have a book here
for you. Come walk with them through the Old West, and don’t trust them when
they tell you it’s all going to be fine. It’s not. And we wouldn’t have it any
other way.” —Stephen Graham Jones (New York Times bestselling
author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a
Chainsaw and Don’t Fear the Reaper)

“Vigorous, bloody pulp fiction boned with fierce intelligence and blooded
with delicate observation. This just might be the start of the best monster
universe since Universal’s.” — Daniel Kraus (New York
Times bestselling author of The Shape of Water, Trollhunters,
and The Autumnal)

“Western gets weird in this gore-strewn, rollicking adventure set in the 1870s
…with a wink toward gothic Victorian horror.” – Publishers Weekly (Starred
Review)

Grab WEST OF SUNDOWN, VOL.
1 now!

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MY REVIEW

Just, Whoa! I’m not sure what wowed me more. The bad guys or the really bad guys. The plot and the character’s background bits. The insane, gory action scenes. Or the visceral and almost too colorful graphics. Some of those violent fights…… ouch.

I love a good western. And I’m definitely in for the strange western. I fell down that rabbit hole, or should I say prairie dog hole, and didn’t find my way back out until the final word.

I have to hand it to the authors and illustrator. They had me liking characters that I probably shouldn’t, tugged at my heart a little, and gave me those monsters, human and other, that I can’t ever get enough of. And now I’m getting ready to read more and can’t wait to be wowed by these fine authors again.

5 STARS

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Check out this peek inside:

About Tim Seeley:

TIM
SEELEY is one
of those “slash” people…a writer-slash-artist. He has drawn a number of
different comic book series including G.I JOE, HALLOWEEN,
WILDCATS and ANT-MAN & WASP. His writing work
include NIGHTWING, MONEY SHOT , INJUSTICE v. MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE ,the
critically acclaimed REVIVAL, and the NY TIMES bestselling HACK/SLASH. He
resides in Chicago, Illinois with his wife, daughter and 80s action figure
collection. Hometown:
Chicago, IL

About Aaron Campbell:

Aaron Campbell has been working as a comics artist for a
decade, and is now the co-writer of Vault Comics horror title, West
of Sundown. During his time in comics, he’s illustrated the
adventures of some of the world’s most iconic characters, including Hellblazer,
Batman, Harley Quinn, The Shadow, Green Hornet, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond,
and Infidel, working with such revered writers as Garth Ennis, Matt Wagner,
James Robinson, and Andy Diggle.
Hometown: Albuquerque, NM

Website | Instagram | Goodreads

About Jim Terry:

JIM
TERRY is a
Native American comic book artist who’s memoir Come Home, Indio was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize and the
Ignatz, as well as the artist on such titles as THE CROW, HACK/SLASH,
HEAVY METAL and more. He is currently working on WEST OF
SUNDOWN from Vault Comics. He lives in Chicago with his 4 cats.

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram | Goodreads

2 winners will receive a finished copy of WEST OF SUNDOWN Vol. 1 & WEST OF SUNDOWN
Vol. 2, US Only.

Ends August 15th, midnight EST.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

7/17/2023	Writer of Wrongs	Excerpt
7/18/2023	Sadie’s Spotlight	Excerpt/IG Post
7/19/2023	Must Read Faster	Excerpt/IG Post
7/20/2023	Vamplit	Review/IG Post
7/21/2023	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt/IG Post
7/22/2023	Fieldstone_lfl	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic

Week Two:

7/23/2023	#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog	Excerpt/IG Post
7/24/2023	Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer	Review/IG Post
7/25/2023	The Book Countess	Review/IG Post
7/26/2023	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt/IG Post
7/27/2023	@by_hckilgour	IG Review
7/28/2023	Country Mamas With Kids	Review/IG Post
7/29/2023	A Blue Box Full of Books	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic/TikTok Post

Week Three:

7/30/2023	OneMoreExclamation	Review/IG Post
7/31/2023	celiamcmahonreads	Review/IG Post
8/1/2023	@evergirl200	IG Review
8/2/2023	FUONLYKNEW	Review
8/3/2023	Lifestyle of Me	Review
8/4/2023	Locks, Hooks and Books	Review
8/5/2023	Kim’s Book Reviews and Writing Aha’s	Review/IG Post

Week Four:

8/6/2023	Brandi Danielle Davis	Review/IG Post
8/7/2023	@enthuse_reader	IG Review/TikTok Post
8/8/2023	Two Points of Interest	Review
8/9/2023	@jlreadstoperpetuity	IG Review/TikTok Post
8/10/2023	@bookish_aly_cat	IG Review
8/11/2023	Jaime_of_gryffindor	IG Review

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Thanks so much for visiting fuonlyknew and Good Luck!

For a list of my reviews go HERE.

For a list of free eBooks updated daily go HERE

To see all of my giveaways go HERE.

Heart Eyes by Dennis Hopeless & Victor Ibanez ~ Review And Giveaway

Posted: July 26, 2023 in apocalypse, giveaways, horror, reviews
Tags: giveaway, Horror, post-apocalyptic, review

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the HEART EYES (The Complete Series) by Dennis Hopeless & Víctor Ibáñez Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours.

Check out my Review and make sure to enter the giveaway!

HEART EYES (The Complete Series)

Authors: Dennis Hopeless & Víctor Ibáñez (Illustrator)

Pub. Date: July 18, 2023

Publisher: Vault Comics

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 144

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/HEART-EYES-The-Complete-Series

A post-apocalyptic monster story
teeming with horror, Lovecraftian-inspired monstrosities, romance, and one
devil-may-care teenager named Lupe who is much more than she seems.

SMILES HIDE WHAT LURKS BENEATH.

Sanity-eating monsters ended humanity. The unlucky few who survived now hide in
the cracks of a broken world. And yet somehow, beneath the graveyard that used
to be San Antonio, Rico met Lupe, the girl of his dreams – and an enigma. How
did she get here? And why is she smiling? No one survives out in the street. No
one smiles where the monsters lurk. But Lupe does.

Join teenagers Rico and Lupe as they journey through a the desolate landscape
of monstrous devastation – and their own obstacle-ridden relationship.

Heart Eyes explores themes of loneliness, mental illness, being your own worst
enemy, and human connection reflecting the pandemic and post-pandemic world in
which we live.

For fans of Lovecraftian monsters and horror, weird romance, post-apocalyptic
fiction,Caitlin R. Kiernan (Houses Under the Sea ,The Tinfoil
Dossier series, Vile Affections, Tales of Pain and Wonder,
Daughter of Hounds, Alabaster, Comes a Pale Rider), the Ellen
Datlow-edited Lovecraft’s Monsters, James Tynion IV’s Something
is Killing the Children, Robert Kirkman’s Oblivion Song, Scott
Snyder’s Undiscovered Country, Bad Girls, Rick Remender’s Low, Justin
Jordan’s The Spread, and Human Remains.

Collects the complete five-issue series.

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MY REVIEW

Lupe is a girl lost. Wandering San Antonio alone in a world filled with monsters that have one agenda. To consume humans. Why is Lupe able to walk among these monsters safely? Will she ever find others who can also do this? Is anyone left?

I enjoyed Heart Eyes. It had a Lovecraftian vibe and I’m always up for that. Lupe Had me curious. I wanted to know how she could do what she did. How she would end up. So did someone else. They’d been watching her. Waiting to make their move. When they did, things got crazy.

I confess, the graphics were my favorite part. So many monsters. And some wild flight scenes. The story raced along, filling in details leading up to an ending that I saw coming but was satisfied with. Don’t get attached to some of the characters. After all, this is world of monsters and they are hungry.

4 STARS

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About Dennis Hopeless:

Dennis Hopeless is a Harvey Award-winning writer from Kansas
City, MO best known for Marvel titles such as X-Men, Avengers, Spider-woman,
and Captain America. Hopeless has also written for DC Comics, Image Comics,
BOOM! Studios, and is the writer and co-creator of HEART EYES for
Vault Comics.

Keep in touch here:

Twitter | Instagram

About Víctor Ibáñez:

Victor Ibanez is a
critically-acclaimed illustrator based in Barcelona, Spain.

Keep in touch here:

Twitter | Instagram

2 winners will receive finished copies of HEART EYES (The Complete Series), US Only.

Ends August 5th, midnight EST.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Tour Schedule:

Week One:

7/1/2023

The
Book View

Excerpt/IG Post

Week Two:

7/2/2023	Tara’s Book Addiction	IG Post
7/3/2023	Writer of Wrongs	Excerpt
7/4/2023	Sadie’s Spotlight	Excerpt/IG Post
7/5/2023	Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer	Review/IG Post
7/6/2023	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt/IG Post
7/7/2023	Cara North	Excerpt/IG Post
7/8/2023	A Dream Within A Dream	Excerpt/IG Post

Week Three:

7/9/2023	#BRVL Book Review Virginia Lee Blog	Excerpt/IG Post
7/10/2023	Brandi Danielle Davis	IG Review/TikTok Post
7/11/2023	Jaime_of_gryffindor	IG Review
7/12/2023	@bookish_aly_cat	IG Review
7/13/2023	@enthuse_reader	IG Review/TikTok Post
7/14/2023	Bookish In Bed	Review
7/15/2023	The Book Countess	Review/IG Post

Week Four:

7/16/2023	Books With a Chance	Review/IG Post
7/17/2023	Locks, Hooks and Books	Review
7/18/2023	Country Mamas With Kids	Review/IG Post
7/19/2023	Fieldstone_lfl	IG Review
7/20/2023	A Blue Box Full of Books	IG Review/LFL Drop Pic/TikTok Post
7/21/2023	OneMoreExclamation	Review/IG Post
7/22/2023	@evergirl200	IG Review

Week Five:

7/23/2023	Lifestyle of Me	Review
7/24/2023	celiamcmahonreads	IG Review
7/25/2023	Kim’s Book Reviews and Writing Aha’s	Review/IG Post
7/26/2023	FUONLYKNEW	Review
7/27/2023	@jlreadstoperpetuity	IG Review/TikTok Post
7/28/2023	Nerdophiles	Review
7/29/2023	Fire and Ice	Review/IG Post

Week Six:

7/30/2023	Books with Brandie Shanae	YouTube Review/IG Post
7/31/2023	two points of interest	Review

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Thanks so much for visiting fuonlyknew and Good Luck!

For a list of my reviews go HERE.

For a list of free eBooks updated daily go HERE

To see all of my giveaways go HERE.

The Friday 56 #249 ~ The Broken Heart by N.J. Gallegos

Posted: July 21, 2023 in horror, The Friday 56
Tags: Horror

Welcome to The Friday 56 hosted by Freda’s Voice.

This is a really fun meme!

The only rules are to grab a book (any book), turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader and find a sentence or a few (no spoilers) that grabs you and post it.

Then go over to Freda’s Voice and leave your link so we can visit your 56!

My 56 for this week is from

The Broken Heart

by N.J. Gallegos

Genre: Horror

From page 56 in the paperback.

With a mean glee, I watched the encounter play out. This was way better than reality TV.

“Ma’am, I think a child’s ear infection is much less important than someone shot in the chest. Take. A. Seat,” the reception said through gritted teeth.

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Synopsis

Casey Philips has it all: a deadbeat husband, a psychopathic son, a beautiful newborn daughter, and catastrophic heart failure necessitating an organ transplant. When a serial killer becomes an unexpected organ donor, Casey gets a heart and a new lease on life.

But dark dreams plague the disgruntled housewife—visions of places she’s never been, chasing women she’s never met. Sometimes, Casey wakes up outside her kids’ rooms without realizing how she got there—knife in hand.

How far will a mother with a newly acquired taste for vengeance go to right the wrongs of an abusive husband, an increasingly violent son, and even her own sins? Only the heart knows what it truly wants.

Amazon

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Thanks so much for visiting fuonlyknew!

You can find a list of my reviews HERE.

For a list of free eBooks go HERE

To see all of my giveaways go HERE

Heart Eyes ~ Release Day Blitz And Giveaway

Posted: July 18, 2023 in giveaways, horror, Release day
Tags: giveaway, Lovecraftian Horror, weird romance

I am so excited that HEART EYES (The Complete Series) by Dennis Hopeless & Víctor Ibáñez is available now and that I get to share the news!

If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book, be sure to check out all the details below.

This blitz also includes a giveaway for 2 finished copies of the book courtesy of Vault Comics & Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, check out the giveaway info below.

Title: HEART EYES (The Complete Series)

Authors: Dennis Hopeless & Víctor Ibáñez (Illustrator)

Pub. Date: July 18, 2023

Publisher: Vault Comics

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 144

Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/HEART-EYES-The-Complete-Series

A post-apocalyptic monster story
teeming with horror, Lovecraftian-inspired monstrosities, romance, and one
devil-may-care teenager named Lupe who is much more than she seems.

SMILES HIDE WHAT LURKS BENEATH.

Join teenagers Rico and Lupe as they journey through a the desolate landscape
of monstrous devastation – and their own obstacle-ridden relationship.

Heart Eyes explores themes of loneliness, mental illness, being your own worst
enemy, and human connection reflecting the pandemic and post-pandemic world in
which we live.

Collects the complete five-issue series.

Enjoy this peek inside:

About Dennis Hopeles:

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About Víctor Ibáñez:

Victor Ibanez is a
critically-acclaimed illustrator based in Barcelona, Spain.

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2 winners will receive finished copies of HEART EYES (The Complete Series), US Only.

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Books From The Back Log #80 ~ The Wild Inside

Posted: July 13, 2023 in horror, thriller
Tags: Horror, psychological, thriller

The Wild Inside

by Jamey Bradbury

Genre: Psychological Thriller / Horror

Synopsis

A promising talent makes her electrifying debut with this unforgettable novel, set in the Alaskan wilderness, that is a fusion of psychological thriller and coming-of-age tale in the vein of Jennifer McMahon, Chris Bohjalian, and Mary Kubica.

A natural born trapper and hunter raised in the Alaskan wilderness, Tracy Petrikoff spends her days tracking animals and running with her dogs in the remote forests surrounding her family’s home. Though she feels safe in this untamed land, Tracy still follows her late mother’s rules: Never Lose Sight of the House. Never Come Home with Dirty Hands. And, above all else, Never Make a Person Bleed.

But these precautions aren’t enough to protect Tracy when a stranger attacks her in the woods and knocks her unconscious. The next day, she glimpses an eerily familiar man emerge from the tree line, gravely injured from a vicious knife wound—a wound from a hunting knife similar to the one she carries in her pocket. Was this the man who attacked her and did she almost kill him? With her memories of the events jumbled, Tracy can’t be sure.

Helping her father cope with her mother’s death and prepare for the approaching Iditarod, she doesn’t have time to think about what she may have done. Then a mysterious wanderer appears, looking for a job. Tracy senses that Jesse Goodwin is hiding something, but she can’t warn her father without explaining about the attack—or why she’s kept it to herself.

It soon becomes clear that something dangerous is going on . . . the way Jesse has wormed his way into the family . . . the threatening face of the stranger in a crowd . . . the boot-prints she finds at the forest’s edge.

Her family is in trouble. Will uncovering the truth protect them—or is the threat closer than Tracy suspects?

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The Covenant Sacrifice by Lee Allen Howard ~ Excerpt And Giveaway

Posted: July 9, 2023 in giveaways, horror, Romance
Tags: giveaway, Horror, LGBTQ+, romance

When the dead return to abduct the living, the living turn into monsters…

The Covenant Sacrifice

by Lee Allen Howard

Genre: LGBTQ Horror Romance

When the dead return to abduct the living, the living turn into monsters…

Jarod Huntingdon wants more than anything to start a family, yet he’s unable to commit to his girlfriend and isn’t sure why. When the father of his childhood best friend, Scotty, passes away, Jarod takes the opportunity to return home to the remote rural community of Annastasis Creek for a season of soul-searching.

But overnight, a violent rainstorm traps everyone in the valley, blocking roads and severing communication with the outside world. And one by one, the residents of Annastasis Creek go missing.

While helping with the search efforts, Jarod learns of a curse as old as he is, one tied to the reappearance of the cicadas, first placed on the community after five young people perished in a house fire decades before. To temporarily appease the curse, defrocked Pentecostal pastor Uriah Zalmon must find a sinner to sacrifice.

The dead are returning to Annastasis Creek…

Can Jarod break the curse for good, save the innocent from the homophobic Covenant Trustees, and vanquish what the screaming cicadas have awoken?

**Releases July 14!**

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An Excerpt from Chapter 4

by Lee Allen Howard

Agatha Abbott led the young goat into the shack behind her house, which lay hidden deep in the woods of north-central Pennsylvania. Bats chittered overhead in the darkened rafters as the old woman fixed the rope to a gore-crusted post planted in the hardpacked earth. The animal bleated, and Agatha yanked the rope, hard. She had no heart for animals. No heart for anyone but her Master.

At Baphomet’s bidding, she had mated her chosen Samael and Lilith, and their unholy union had produced the beast—the new god that would break the oppressive grip of Christianity off the world.

Agatha withdrew items necessary for the ceremony from her dress pocket and arranged them on the dirt floor.

The time had come. The song of the cicadas had begun, heralding another long-awaited opportunity to reclaim what she and her now-dead grandsons had toiled for years to produce. They had tried and tried again to breed so many girls who’d either killed themselves or otherwise failed to carry the ceremonial seed to full term. Finally, the Abbotts had succeeded, only to have the offspring stolen from them. Snatched away and hidden for over three decades.

The captor of the beast-child had kept it secretly confined. Coerced it somehow into an unnatural state of hibernation. But the infernal progenitor was meant to awaken forevermore and enact the Master’s plan: to fill the skies with winged death. It was time to set her beast-child free.

As she’d done years before, Agatha unfolded a lace handkerchief and picked out a few dark hairs and some fingernail parings she’d saved for thirty-four years. She scraped some flaky material from the clippings and brushed it all from her gnarled hands into a shard of broken crockery on the floor.

From the belt of her tattered dress, she pulled her kitchen knife and tested the blade with her thumb. Sharp as a razor. She sucked salty blood away.

The old woman grasped the kid by the nub of a horn and, with a deft motion, slashed its throat. The goat jumped once and then collapsed.

Agatha caught the hot, coppery blood in her withered hand and drizzled the dish’s contents with it. Outside, the wind moaned through the trees and buffeted the shack as if in answer.

“O wise Baphomet, I bring thee the hair of the woman, the skin of the man. Solve et coagula…” Agatha incanted the ancient spell, spilling three handfuls of blood upon the shard. She lifted a final draught to her lips, willing the darkness to be released once more.

“Come forth,” she croaked. “Come forth!”

Agatha licked her bloody hand, then raised it overhead.

“I command thee to come forth,” she cried, “and sing!”

Lee Allen Howard writes dark fiction: horror, LGBTQ+ horror, supernatural crime, dark crime, dark mysteries, and psychological thrillers. And technical manuals. All terribly horrifying.

I’ve been a technical writer and publishing system administrator in the software industry since 1985. (Why do fiction writers pretend like they don’t have day jobs? I like to eat just like everyone else!) I also edit dark fiction and non-fiction projects. I’ve done book layout and publishing consultancy.

A long time ago I earned a bachelor’s in English from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. I also earned a Master of Arts in Biblical Studies from CI School of Theology and a Master of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University.

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