The Merge is a psychological horror novel with a cosmic twist, sprinkled with real astrological practices. At least, that’s what their blurb says. It follows the story of Jarvis, a PhD student who is overworked, struggling with rising debt and has medical issues. I’ll be honest, I found the book unpolished but with potential. It…
“What’s the point?”
Started very unexpected, but delivered the melancholy I hoped for well.
Sorry for the unannounced break during summer, but the Reading Guild is back! And since October is known for being the creepy Halloween month, … Theme: horror Read and review anything that’s a book – novels, comics, mangas, graphic novels, poem collections, scripts, short stories, zines, et cetera. (Audiobooks count too, of course!). How to…
Vampires at Sea follows the story of Rebekah, a vampire who feeds off sexual energy, as she goes on a cruise with her husband. Dubbed ‘a smutty horror-comedy featuring unbridled narcissism’, I had high hopes going in. While on the cruise, the couple meet an intriguing entity called Heaven and their relationship is redefined over…
Werewolves are the bad guys, crying makes their eyes turn red, flying lessons are brutal, and love turns into a bloodlust … interesting.
The blurb sounded really cool – dark. It does start pretty unhinged and like the beginning of a slowly creeping horror story, but then focuses a bit (too much for my taste) on a hetero romance and I wanted to barf. However, I had a bad feeling about the guy’s trying-too-hard-to-be-good vibe from the beginning…
A new spin, making the protagonist of African descent, a slave and a man of color. Plus, connecting it to the Haitian revolution.
It was much more the story that kept me reading than the art. I find the latter to be rather mediocre, beginner-like. Not the impression the cover gave.
A slice-of-life story that turned dark and intriguing quite quick and kinda unexpected (pacing-wise). In a good way. I loved the daily life parts, and the …
Plot After a young girl, Anna, gets bitten by her cat, bad things start to happen to her parents, who are constantly fighting and blaming her or the cat for everything that went down in their lives. When Anna tries to get rid of the cat, she discovers there might be a greater terror behind…
