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Epeolatry Book Review: Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin

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​Title: Night’s Edge
Author: Liz Kerin
Genre: Horror, Paranormal, Contemporary
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Date: 20th June, 2023

Synopsis: Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin takes a bite out of vampire lore in this blood-soaked novel about the darkest secrets we hide and how monstrous we can be to the ones we love most.

Having a mom like Izzy meant Mia had to grow up fast. No extracurriculars, no inviting friends over, and definitely no dating. The most important rule: Tell no one of Izzy’s hunger – the kind only blood can satisfy.

But Mia is in her twenties now and longs for a life of her own. One where she doesn’t have to worry about anyone discovering their terrible secret, or breathing down her neck. When Mia meets rebellious musician Jade she dares to hope she’s found a way to leave her home – and her mom – behind.

It just might be Mia’s only chance of getting out alive.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Rogue Sequence by Zac Topping

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​Title: Rogue Sequence
Author: Zac Topping
Genre: Action Adventure
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Date: 4th June, 2024

Synopsis: It’s 2091 and independent contract companies around the world are producing genetically modified soldiers…to be sold to the highest bidders.

Ander Rade is a super-soldier, a genetically engineered living weapon, and has been dutifully following orders since he gave himself to Xyphos Industries’ Gene-Mod Program several years ago. But when a mission goes sideways, he’s captured, imprisoned, and forced into brutally violent fighting pits for the better part of the next decade…until agents from the Genetic Compliance Department of the United American Provinces appear in the visiting room.

Things have changed since Rade was captured. Shortly after his incarceration, the World Unity Council banned human genetic engineering and deemed all modified individuals a threat to society. Overnight, an entire subculture of people became outlaws simply for existing. But instead of leaving Rade locked behind bars, the GCD agents have come with an offer: Freedom in exchange for his help tracking down one of his former teammates from that ill-fated mission all those years ago.

It’s an offer Rade can’t refuse, but he soon realizes that the situation is far more volatile than anyone had anticipated, and is forced to take matters into his own hands as he tries to figure out whose side he’s really on, and why.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Last Night of Freedom by Dan Howarth

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​Title: Last Night of Freedom
Author: Dan Howarth
Genre: British & Irish Horror, British Horror Fiction
Publisher: Northern Republic
Date: 11th October, 2024

Synopsis: Fifteen years after graduation, four old university friends get together to celebrate Luke’s stag party. Tucked away in a remote village in the Lake District, they expect a weekend of real ale, log fires and gentle hikes – but a stag party of locals have other ideas.

Unwillingly drawn into one-upmanship and animosity, the four friends find themselves being hunted across unfamiliar ground in a game of deadly consequences. With only one of them guaranteed to survive, old wounds and resentments threaten to tear them apart as much as their pursuers.

Can the four friends unite to fight back, or will they fall, divided and broken?

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Epeolatry Book Review: Consequential by T.C. Parker

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Title: Consequential
Author: T.C. Parker
Genre: Fantasy Mystery
Publisher: Nefarious Bat Press
Publication Date: 7th October, 2024
Synopsis: Fresh from her recent foray into crime-solving, demonic fallen god (and would-be detective) Sunny is back from Coventry – with a debt still owed to the murderous ghost of Lady Godiva, and now a giant mythical pig in need of babysitting on her to-do list.
What she needs, more than anything, is a nice hot bath and an episode of Poirot.
Fate, unfortunately, has other plans. As does her newest human ally, Jonas.
Plans that will lead Sunny down a conspiracy-riddled rabbit-hole of murder, mutilation and moral philosophy – and give her a brand-new reason to dust off her fedora and go chasing after the perp…

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Epeolatry Book Review: The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir

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Title: The Night Guest
Author: Hildur Knútsdóttir
Translator: Mary Robinette Kowal
Genre: Horror 
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Publication Date: 3rd September, 2024
Synopsis: Hildur Knútsdóttir’s The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that’s sure to keep you awake at night.

Iðunn is in yet another doctor’s office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something’s not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven’t revealed any cause.

When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same ― have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps.

Until one night Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she’s walked over 40,000 steps in the night . . .

What is happening when she’s asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won’t anyone believe her?

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Epeolatry Book Review: The Lord’s Prayer: A Series of Horror by Dawn DeBraal

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Title: The Lord’s Prayer: a Series of Horror
Author: Dawn DeBraal
Genre: Horror Collection
Publisher: Zombie Works Publications
Publication Date: 15th July, 2024
Synopsis: Encased inside are fourteen short stories, all inspired by verses from the Lord’s Prayer.
In every anecdote, the main character is tested in some way. How they come out in the end is dependent on their moral make-up. Some of them will fail because flesh is weak, some will come out very changed because of the difficulty they faced, or avoided, and some won’t make it out alive, giving in to sin and despair.
The Lord’s Prayer is readdressed through the eyes of children, the elderly, those who want to make something of themselves, the rich, poor, arrogant, liars, cheaters, drug dealers, greed mongers and snake charmers.
Not every facet of humanity is beautiful, but we were given a prayer to pray to help us through the hard times. If you truly believe, there is hope

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Epeolatry Book Review: This World is Not Yours by Kemi Ashing-Giwa

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Title: This World is Not Yours
Author: Kemi Ashing-Giwa
Genre: Scifi/Horror
Publisher: Tor
Publication Date: 10th September, 2024
Synopsis: After fleeing her controlling and murderous family with her fiancée Vinh, Amara embarks on a colonization project, New Belaforme, along with her childhood friend, Jesse.

The planet, beautiful and lethal, produces the Gray, a “self-cleaning” mechanism that New Belaforme’s scientists are certain only attacks invasive organisms, consuming them. Humans have been careful to do nothing to call attention to themselves until a rival colony wakes the Gray.

As Amara, Vinh, and Jesse work to carve out a new life together, each is haunted by past betrayals that surface, expounded by the need to survive the rival colony and the planet itself.

There’s more than one way to be eaten alive.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Tidal Creatures by Seanan McGuire

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Title: Tidal Creatures
Author: Seanan McGuire
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Tordotcom
Publication Date: 4th June, 2024
Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire takes us back to the world of the award-winning Alchemical Journeys series in this action-packed follow-up to Middlegame and Seasonal Fears.

Every night, a Moon shines down on the Impossible City…

All across the world, people look up at the moon and dream of gods. Gods of knowledge and wisdom, gods of tides and longevity. Over time, some of these moon gods incarnated into the human world alongside the other manifest natural concepts. Their job is to cross the sky above the Impossible City—the heart of all creation—to keep it connected to reality.

And someone is killing them.

There are so many of them that it’s easy for a few disappearances to slip through the cracks. But they aren’t limitless.

In the name of the moon, the lunar divinities must uncover the roots of the plot and thwart the true goal of those behind these attacks—control of the Impossible City itself.

At the Publisher’s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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