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Godsgrave (murder and amazing bi rep, what more could I want?) — Jay Kristoff

TITLE: Godsgrave (The Nevernight Chronicle, #2) AUTHOR: Jay Kristoff GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Assassin Mia Corvere has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church ministry think she’s far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she’s no closer to ending Consul Scaeva and Cardinal Duomo, or avenging her familia. And after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia begins to suspect the motives...

Pennies (twisted, but I couldn't get enough) — Pepper Winters

TITLE: Pennies (Dollar, #1) AUTHOR: Pepper Winters GENRE: Dark Romance AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Once upon a time, I was an eighteen year old psychology student. Now, I’m a man’s property. Stolen and sold, I’ve been decorated in bruises since the day my world changed two years ago. I suffer in silence, I crave freedom, but I never break. I can’t. Until he arrives. Elder Prest, the only man to look at me and see me. The only man more ruthless than my...

The Resurrectionists — Michael Patrick Hicks

TITLE: The Resurrectionists (Salem Hawley, #1) AUTHOR: Michael Patrick Hicks GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Having won his emancipation after fighting on the side of the colonies during the American Revolution, Salem Hawley is a free man. Only a handful of years after the end of British rule, Hawley finds himself drawn into a new war unlike anything he has ever seen. New York City is on the cusp of a new revolution as the science of medicine advances, but procuring bodies for...

The Fearing #1: Fire & Rain — John F.D. Taff

TITLE: Fire and Rain (The Fearing, #1) AUTHOR: John F.D. Taff GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: In the American high desert, vacationers returning from a road trip are thrust into a heart-stopping flight from death as they try to avoid a cataclysmic end. In rural Missouri, the lives of a group of high school students are destroyed after their small town is devastated and they’re forced to confront the end of everything they’ve ever known. And on the eastern seaboard, there’s someone...

Choking Back the Devil — Donna Lynch

TITLE: Choking Back the Devil AUTHOR: Donna Lynch GENRE: Horror/Poetry AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: Choking Back the Devil by Donna Lynch is an invocation, an ancient invitation that summons the darkness within and channels those lonely spirits looking for a host. It’s a collection that lives in the realm of ghosts and family curses, witchcraft and urban legends, and if you’re brave enough to peek behind the veil, the hauntings that permeate these pages will break seals and open doorways, cut throats...

The Black Farm (HOLY CRAP, that's dark!) — Elias Witherow

TITLE: The Black Farm AUTHOR: Elias Witherow GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: After the loss of a child along with a slew of agonizing misfortunes, Nick and Jess decide to end their lives. Unable to cope with the misery that fills their days, they commit one last act together and die in loving relief. But when Nick wakes up, he soon realizes that death isn’t the gentle darkness he expected. Panicked and horrified, he struggles to understand the twisted abominations and...

Asylum — Madeleine Roux

TITLE: Asylum (Asylum, #1) AUTHOR: Madeleine Roux GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program—it’s a lifeline. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excited to finally make some friends in his last summer before college. But when he arrives at the program, Dan learns that his dorm for the summer used to be a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum—a last resort for the...

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (late to the party as usual) — Michelle Hodkin

TITLE: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #1) AUTHOR: Michelle Hodkin GENRE: Paranormal AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. There is. She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love. She’s wrong. “You could...

Changeling — William Ritter (BLOG TOUR)

TITLE: Changeling (The Oddmire, #1) AUTHOR: William Ritter GENRE: Fantasy AGE RANGE: MG SYNOPSIS: Magic is fading from the Wild Wood. To renew it, goblins must perform an ancient ritual involving the rarest of their kind—a newborn changeling. But when the fateful night arrives to trade a human baby for a goblin one, something goes terribly wrong. After laying the changeling in a human infant’s crib, the goblin Kull is briefly distracted from his task. By the time he turns back, the changeling...