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Isolated Island Horror

Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong

December 27, 2024 by dreadpiratekel Leave a Comment

A standalone horror novel from Kelley Armstrong, Hemlock Island is the story of Laney Kilpatrick who is renting out her (amazingly described) second home.  She’s doing this begrudgingly, she got the house in her divorce but the cost of maintaining her isolated island home, plus maintaining the apartment she shares with her niece, well it’s share your space with strangers, or not have the house on Hemlock Island at all.  However, some of the people renting out the island home have left some … remnants […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: Hemlock Island, horror, Kelley Armstrong

dreadpiratekel's CBR16 Review No:48 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: Hemlock Island, horror, Kelley Armstrong ·
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A selection of books from the last several months

Y: The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan

Hell of a Book by Jason Mott

Dead Man's Walk by Larry McMurtry

Hemlock Island by Kelley Armstrong

June 26, 2024 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

I’ve been pretty terrible this year. I haven’t been reading very much, and what little reading I have done hasn’t inspired much writing. So I’m just going to throw these reviews into a box, just to remind myself that I like doing this. Y: The Last Man (Vol. 1) (3 stars) Set in a post-apocalyptic America where all mammals with a Y-chromosome (including sperm and embryos) suddenly and simultaneously die – except for Yorick Brown and his pet monkey, Ampersand. What’s left is a world […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Horror, Mystery, Western Tagged With: Brian K. Vaughan, Dead Man's Walk, Hell of a Book, Hemlock Island, jason mott, Kelley Armstrong, Larry McMurtry, Y The Last Man

ingres77's CBR16 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, History, Horror, Mystery, Western · Tags: Brian K. Vaughan, Dead Man's Walk, Hell of a Book, Hemlock Island, jason mott, Kelley Armstrong, Larry McMurtry, Y The Last Man ·
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