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“All Shesheshen could do for Homily was be patient with her, and make space for her, and eventually, one day behind her back, eat her mother.”

Someone You Can Build A Nest In by John Wiswell

April 11, 2026 by bjornsnipe Leave a Comment

Shesheshen is an amorphous lump who lives at the bottom of a pool in an abandoned house, hibernates during the winter, and occasionally shapeshifts into something vaguely  humanoid, wanders down to the village, and eats people. Only apparently bad people, but I guess you can’t make the carnivorous monster who is the lead of your book unsympathetic by having them eat an orphan or an old lady or a kitten or a puppy or something like that. All goes well until the day hunters come […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Horror, Romance Tagged With: aro/ace representation, cozy horror, found family, John Wiswell, monster as hero, unhealthy families

bjornsnipe's CBR18 Review No:13 · Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Romance · Tags: aro/ace representation, cozy horror, found family, John Wiswell, monster as hero, unhealthy families ·
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Where Lovecraft Meets Spycraft

The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross

April 11, 2026 by LittlePlat Leave a Comment

I’m still making my way through the Laundry Files books, in hope that I’ll be reviewing the final one before the year is out. In my review of the Atrocity Archives I did mention that while the premise was good, the book was quite episodic and disjointed. To expand on that a little: re-reading it, it seems clear that the author was exploring two distinct ideas — mixing the public sector with eldritch horrors, and mixing espionage with eldritch horrors. Some of the later books […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: #fantasy, Bond James Bond, charles stross, crunchy and good with ketchup, Laundry Files, Lovecraftian horrors, novella, Satire ·, SysAdmin

LittlePlat's CBR18 Review No:7 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: #fantasy, Bond James Bond, charles stross, crunchy and good with ketchup, Laundry Files, Lovecraftian horrors, novella, Satire ·, SysAdmin ·
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These Familiar Walls by C.J. Dotson

These Familiar Walls by C.J. Dotson

April 6, 2026 by Classic Leave a Comment

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. Trigger Warning: Animal cruelty I had to give this three stars because honestly there’s a lot of terrible people in this one which can sometimes work for you as a reader, and this time it absolutely did not. And most importantly, there’s too many twists in this one that just got kind of tossed at you that really drove me up the wall. I felt like I was […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: C.J. Dotson, These Familiar Walls

Classic's CBR18 Review No:31 · Genres: Horror · Tags: C.J. Dotson, These Familiar Walls ·
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The Lamb by Lucy Rose

The Lamb by Lucy Rose

April 4, 2026 by Classic Leave a Comment

Trigger warning: Very gory and some people may get a bit sick at parts. I did not read this while eating, but even after finishing, my stomach is a bit ugh. I am not spoiling anything going into this cause the synopsis lets you know right away you are reading about a mother and daughter who are cannibals. So that’s what is going on from the bat. I actually really enjoyed this, gore and all, but it is not something that I would read again, […]

Filed Under: Horror Tagged With: Lucy Rose, The Lamb

Classic's CBR18 Review No:30 · Genres: Horror · Tags: Lucy Rose, The Lamb ·
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The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

April 3, 2026 by Classic Leave a Comment

This is hands down my favorite book of Moreno-Garcia since Mexican Gothic. I don’t know about anyone else, but I found some of her other works not hitting it for me. This one had it all, memorable characters, a very strong plot, and a great ending. The Bewitching follows in essence three distinct timelines that all come together in the end. Timeline one follows Minerva, an international graduate student from Mexico that is currently enrolled in Stoneridge College in Massachusetts in 1998. Minerva is trying to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: silvia moreno-garcia, The Bewitching

Classic's CBR18 Review No:28 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: silvia moreno-garcia, The Bewitching ·
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(Mostly) Horror Roundup

London Rules (Slough House #5) by Mick Herron

The Drift by CJ Tudor

The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig

November (Darker Days) by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

April 2, 2026 by Zirza Leave a Comment

London Rules (Slough House #5, Mick Herron) *** I enjoy the Slough House books, but I never do know what to write about them. They’re well written and the plot is usually creative and unpredictable, but in spite of that (or perhaps because of that) it’s always the same: River fucks something up, Louisa is prickly, Shirley is aggressive, Diana Taverner is sneaky and antagonistic and Jackson Lamb is smarter than everyone else. There is enough intrigue to keep things interesting (and the Apple TV […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: chuck wendig, CJ Tudor, mick herron, Slough House, Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Zirza's CBR18 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense · Tags: chuck wendig, CJ Tudor, mick herron, Slough House, Thomas Olde Heuvelt ·
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