Reviews and Comments

Film and sound nerdery, Crowley-esque occult magic and meatballs, what else would you want? I really enjoyed this one and can't wait to read Mexican Gothic (which Father Christmas has kindly bestowed).

What an original little book. Borne (who in my mind usually looked like Philippe from Achewood, only a tentacled vase?) is a weird creature found by the main character, Rachel. Despite being set in yet another post-collapse dystopia, this book is anything but cliché.

Terrifying, combining a well-told and paced story combined with depth and subtlety. I recommend this so highly.

I'm about halfway through and enjoying this so much, I'm so nervous about where the story goes!!

Hell yes... excited to be back on the SGJ

I loved this and I needed to sit with it a while after I finished, before starting my next book. It's a body-horror/fairytale/love story between a 'mermaid' on land and her (plague) doctor, as they intervene in a morbid cult run by three false saints. It's like nothing I've read before (okay, maybe it's a bit T. Kingfisher-y - a good thing) and it's really beautifully written.

This begins as crass fun but it becomes very clear that it was never envisaged that this book might be read by someone other than a horny American white boy

I haven't listened to the podcast this is based on but I don't think it mattered. It's an entertaining book filled with weirdness and silliness, but with a real story underneath. It was good? But I don't think it will leave much of an impression on me.

I have never listed to the podcast but this is pretty fun a few pages in...

We can confidently say I am now a committed T. Kingfisher fan since reading What Moves The Dead, and now this. The Hollow Places follows two likeable main characters as they stumble upon a multiverse portal through a wall in the back of an eccentric small town museum. The story is gripping and unpredictable and once I got so far I literally couldn't put it down. More please!

I hesitate to recommend this book because it covers some difficult terrain. Having said that, I've already recommended it to a couple of people. I was mostly enthralled and terrified by the story but I could have done without the prologue and epilogue, which seemed to lack the originality of the rest of the book.

A trans horror, so the back cover tells me

The second book in the Indian Lake trilogy, and it definitely feels like a middle book. The first, My Heart is a Chainsaw, blew my mind and I really enjoyed this though not quite as much. It's probably unfair to compare it, to be honest. Don't Fear the Reaper gives us a terrifying new slasher, kind of a cross between Candyman and Jason Vorhees, and beloved characters Jade/Jennifer, Letha and others are back. Proofrock has a new class of seniors but hasn't really moved on from the Lake Witch Slayings aka the Independence Day Massacre. This book hurls Jade and the readers back into the path of danger and keeps things at a high intensity from there. It's bloody and brutal. I can't wait for the third book.

Sequel to the brilliant My Heart is a Chainsaw

I enjoyed this from start to finish. I really liked the characters and connected with Alex Easton immediately. The remote location constrained the setting and I felt immersed in it. The contemporary treatment of gender was interesting, relevant to the story and understated. And the story was as creepy as heck.