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“Little thing. You think you can just take, and take, and take until there is no more. No. The sea remembers your debts. And I will collect. I am going to take the thing you most love from you.”

The Burial Tide: A Novel by Neil Sharpson

December 27, 2025 by bjornsnipe 1 Comment

  One stormy night on Inishbannock, an eerily quiet island off the coast of Ireland, a woman with no memory wakes up in a coffin. Clawing herself out of the grave and into the night, the woman soon to be named Mara Fitch discovers that not everyone on the island welcomes her sudden return to life. Of course her return is not the only oddity; a sudden plague that killed only four people on the island, and was never reported to the mainland. The sudden […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror Tagged With: amnesia, buried alive maybe, irish mythololgy, Neil Sharpson, Seriously there has to be a sequel following this, small town secrets

bjornsnipe's CBR17 Review No:159 · Genres: Fiction, Horror · Tags: amnesia, buried alive maybe, irish mythololgy, Neil Sharpson, Seriously there has to be a sequel following this, small town secrets ·
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Seriously? That’s It?

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross

February 23, 2025 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

As I finished this book, I was hit by the immortal words of Camila Cabello in her Havana video.  “That’s it?  That’s how your story ends?”  (BTW, if you haven’t seen it, check it out.  It’s a whole movie in about 5 minutes, and is hilarious.  Abuelita is the best.)  But with some googling, found out there is a second book, which is not mentioned anywhere at the end of this one.  Anyway! Cadence is an island off the coast of Scotland (apparently) and is […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance Tagged With: Ambiguous ending, Bards and elemental spirits, But up until then good stuff, Celtic magical realism, East vs west island, Rebecca Ross, Seriously there has to be a sequel following this

elderberrywine's CBR17 Review No:10 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance · Tags: Ambiguous ending, Bards and elemental spirits, But up until then good stuff, Celtic magical realism, East vs west island, Rebecca Ross, Seriously there has to be a sequel following this ·
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