To say Saturday was a stellar book mail day would be an understatement. I got some highly anticipated horror releases and I'm stoked to have them on the TBR.
A big thank you to the publishers and authors for the gifted copies. I also had to include some of the outtakes from trying to get photos of these books. Billy has been LOVING being able to be outside again - the lack of snow and cold temperatures have been really nice. When Billy can roam, he always seems to find me and has to jump into the photos.
Book Mail - Anticipated Horror Reads:
NO ROAD HOME - John Fram (Releasing July 23rd, 2024 - Thanks to John and Atria Books for the copy)
For years, single father Toby Tucker has done his best to keep his sensitive young son, Luca, safe from the bigotry of the world. But when Toby marries Alyssa Wright—the granddaughter of a famed televangelist known for his grandiose, Old Testament preaching—he can't imagine the world of religion, wealth, and hate that he and Luca are about to enter.
A trip to the Wright family's compound in sun-scorched Texas soon turns hellish when Toby realizes that Alyssa and the rest of her brood might have some very strange plans for Toby and his son. The situation only grows worse when a freak storm cuts off the roads and the family patriarch is found murdered, stabbed through the heart on the roof of the family's mansion.
Suspicion immediately turns to Toby, but when his son starts describing a spectral figure in a black suit lurking around the house with unfinished business in mind, Toby realizes this family has more than murder to be afraid of. And as the Wrights close in on Luca, no one is prepared for the lengths Toby will go in the fight to clear his name and protect his son.
AMBROSIA - Hamelin Bird (Released January 16th, 2024 - Thanks to Hamelin for sending me a copy)
"A riveting blend of horror and suspense"—Kirkus Reviews When Travis Barnes returns home following the unexpected death of his mother, leaving his career with the Seventh Naval Fleet, he hopes to begin a new chapter in life. Unbeknownst to him, a series of impossible coincidences soon draws the attention of the Bureau, a fringe government agency formed from the rubble of Projects Monarch and Stargate.But when Lola Agnew, the Bureau's genetically-altered ringleader—along with her erudite headhunter, Drexl Samson—confront him with a clandestine force with powers beyond this world, Travis must face a forgotten secret from his past. His partner Tara Reilly, meanwhile, has secrets of her own, and when the couple are pushed to their limits, they must join together to overcome the darkness...
In the tradition of the classic speculative fiction of Richard Matheson, Ira Levin, and Ray Bradbury, Hamelin Bird's AMBROSIA is a genre-defying deep dive into the mysterious and uncanny.
NOWHERE LIKE HOME - Sara Shepard (Releasing February 20th, 2024 - Thanks to Dutton for the copy)
When Lenna gets a call from her old friend Rhiannon, she is startled; Rhiannon disappeared years ago without a trace. But Lenna is even more startled to learn that Rhiannon has a son and that she lives off the grid with a group of women in a community called Halcyon. Rhiannon invites Lenna, a new mother herself, to join them. Why suffer the sleepless nights by yourself? It takes a village, after all.
Lenna decides to go and hopefully repair her relationship with Rhiannon, but as she drives into the desert and her cell service gets weaker, she becomes suspicious. Who are these women and why did Rhiannon invite her here? And that is before she learns about the community's rules (no outside phone calls, no questions about people's pasts) and the padlock on the gate that leads out to the main road. But Lenna has other concerns, secrets from her past she is terrified will come out. When a newcomer arrives in the community, Lenna's worst fears are confirmed—she was brought here for a reason.
Nowhere Like Home tackles themes of complicated friendships and trauma but all with Sara Shepard's expert twists that you don't see coming.
DRENCROM - Hamelin Bird (Released May 4th, 2023 - Thanks to Hamelin for sending me a copy)
Driven from home at eighteen, Coda has indulged a rambling, hippie-soul existence.
Now in sunny California, those freewheeling days are long since behind her, with no promises of a better life ahead. But her fortunes begin to change when she drops a new kind of drug bought off the dark web, her consciousness shattered as something sinister takes root from within, threatening to claw into our world.
Entangled in the lives of her neighboring tenants, Coda struggles to maintain her sanity while her mind expands into the greater beyond, thrust into a dread-spiral of madness as she plunges into the insatiable grip of DRENCROM .
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