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Book Review: The Night House by Jo Nesbo
This is the first book by Jo Nesbo that I’ve read, and I have to say I couldn’t have picked one that was more to my taste! The Night...
Tracey Carvill
Jun 101 min read
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Book Review – The Octagon’s Eight by Mairon Oakley
Earlier this year when I was at Fantasy Forest with Smash Bear Publishing promoting my book, I promised myself I was going to stop by...
Tracey Carvill
Nov 5, 20242 min read
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Book Review: Blooms of Dawn
Smash Bear Publishing’s latest charity fundraiser is in aid of PAL Humanity , and it is an absolutely adorable little book of...
Tracey Carvill
Nov 5, 20241 min read
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Book Review: You Like It Darker by Stephen King
The latest offering from the King of horror is a collection of novellas and short stories, and like most of his collections of the type,...
Tracey Carvill
Jun 27, 20242 min read
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Book Review: Gloom by Ricky Olson
This book definitely has an apt title: Gloom it is called and gloom is what you will get. Ricky Olson has written 13 short stories filled...
Tracey Carvill
Jun 27, 20242 min read
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Book Review: The Malachite Quest by Aerin Apeltun
If you’ve read The Amethyst Talisman, the first book in the Cursed Weapons series, you’ll be familiar with the world of Aerba (if you...
Tracey Carvill
Jun 27, 20242 min read
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Book Review: The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett
I should not be allowed in bookstores unattended. On the day I’m thinking of, I wandered past a Waterstones and saw an intriguing book...
Tracey Carvill
Jan 8, 20243 min read
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Book Review: The Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke
I love a split narrative story! Different points of view on the same story can broaden the reader’s scope of what’s going on, and you get...
Tracey Carvill
Dec 18, 20231 min read
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Book Review: The Dance of Lost Souls by Kelli Call
I'm primarily a horror reader, but throw a bit of spookiness into anything and I'll read it! 'The Dance of Lost Souls' does this by...
Tracey Carvill
Nov 14, 20231 min read
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Book Review: Ordinary Monsters by J M Miro
According to The Daily Mail, this book is a 'gaslit, gothic tour de force'. I don't tend to agree with The Daily Mail very often, but in...
Tracey Carvill
Nov 4, 20231 min read
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TV Review: The Fall of the House of Usher
So normally I wouldn't write a blog post about something I'd watched - I watch even more than I read so I'd be here forever and never...
Tracey Carvill
Oct 15, 20232 min read
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Book Review: Storm's Child by John Ortega
Crikey, this book moves at 90 miles an hour and you'll read it that fast, too! It's not a big book, but I still tore through it much...
Tracey Carvill
Sep 16, 20231 min read
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Book Review: 'Holly' by Stephen King
According to the dates in the back of this book, King spent just over a year writing it, and then we waited almost as long for it to be...
Tracey Carvill
Sep 9, 20234 min read
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Book Review: The Wing Thief by Samantha Atkins
I can’t lie, I picked up The Wing Thief wondering if I was about to read a childrens’ story. The (original) cover has gorgeous but...
Tracey Carvill
Sep 9, 20232 min read
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Book Review: The Dark Net by Benjamin Percy
I’ll be honest, the only reason I picked this book up is because on the front cover it claims to be ‘one of the best Stephen King books...
Tracey Carvill
Sep 4, 20232 min read
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I Think I'm Developing A Seasonal Routine!
This is just a bit of musing around how my 'professional author life' (I'm allowed to call myself that because I've been published and...
Tracey Carvill
Aug 26, 20232 min read
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Book Review – Fury: A Cinderella Story by David Allen
‘Fury: A Cinderella Story’ is a diamond of a story that just needs polishing to really make it great. The ideas in it are great – a...
Tracey Carvill
Aug 26, 20232 min read
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Book Review: The Amethyst Talisman by Aerin Apeltun
There's just something about a pretty book cover that makes me really want to read the book! And the cover for this one is absolutely...
Tracey Carvill
Aug 2, 20232 min read
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Book Review: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red by Joyce Reardon
As a huge Stephen King fan I have of course watched 'Rose Red' and 'The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer', and have both in my DVD collection. I...
Tracey Carvill
Jul 11, 20231 min read
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Book Review: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
Yes, I'm aware I'm late to the party with this one, but I wanted to read the book before the movie comes out because I'm a huge Tom...
Tracey Carvill
Jul 2, 20231 min read
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