Tagged: Liz Kerin

Epeolatry Book Review: First Light by Liz Kerin

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​Title: First Light
Author: Liz Kerin
Genre: vampire, paranormal, coming-of-age, thriller, queer fiction
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Date: 23rd April, 2024

Synopsis: It’s been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home. But she’s not running away from the darkness–she’s running toward it, obsessively pursuing the man who gave her mother a thirst for blood and destroyed their lives. 

But when Mia finds the monsters she’s been hunting and infiltrates a secret network of fugitives, she discovers she might have been their prey all along. 

To escape their clutches, she’ll have to reckon with her mother’s harrowing past and confront a painful truth: that they might be more alike than she ever imagined.

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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: Tiny Tales of Terror: Volume 1 and 2

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Title: Tiny Tales of Terror: Volume 1: Spots and Other Stories and Tiny Tales of Terror Volume 2: Anchor and Other Stories
Editor: Dave Musson
Genre: Horror
Release Date: 5th May, 2023

Synopsis:

Tiny Tales of Terror: Volume 1: Spots and Other Stories and Tiny Tales of Terror

The kids are alright…aren’t they?

Something weird is happening in the Happy Woodland Nursery – the delightful middle class preschool setting for the delightful middle-class children in the delightful middle-class town of Kingsworth. Spots have appeared on all of the young folk in the Badger Sett room and the staff can’t work out what’s caused them.

For the most part, the little boys and girls seem fine. But then, naptime rolls around and things change.

Delve into this twisted tale from author Dave Musson, then stick around ten more afterwards – there’s creepy dolls, unwelcome visitors, evil spirits and a few bad dreams too.

Tiny Tales of Terror, Volume 2: Anchor & Other Stories

Nurse? Nurse??

The last place the man in the otherwise empty ward wanted to be on a stifling summer’s day was in hospital, but he’d passed out at work and didn’t really have a choice. Still, at least he was feeling better now. Well, kind of…

No-one seemed to be responding when he pushed the call button – probably no-one could hear the button over the white noise that screeched every time he tried. And just what was going on with the colours in the room beyond the curtain pulled around his bed? They weren’t normal.

Good job he had his anchor to tie him to the real world…whatever that is.

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Epeolatry Book Review: Linghun by Ai Jiang

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Title: Linghun
Editor: Ai Jiang
Genre: Gothic Ghost Story
Publisher: Dark Matter Ink
Release Date: 4th April, 2023

Synopsis: From acclaimed author Ai Jiang, follow Wenqi, Liam, and Mrs. to the mysterious town of HOME, a place where the dead live again as spirits, conjured by the grief-sick population that refuses to let go. This edition includes a foreword by Yi Izzy Yu, Translator of The Shadow Book of Ji Yun, the essay “A Ramble on Di Fu Ling & Death” by the author, and two bonus short stories from Jiang: “Yǒngshí” and “Teeter Totter.”

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Epeolatry Book Review: Night’s Edge by Liz Kerin

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Title: Night’s Edge
Editor: Liz Kerin
Genre: Horror
Publisher: Tor Nightfire
Release Date: 20th June, 2023

Synopsis: Liz Kerin’s Night’s Edge is a sun-drenched 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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