Fear Club: Tokyo Masquerade by Eden Crowne

Well I stumbled upon this author awhile ago and was thoroughly enchanted by her skill at writing and the worlds she creates.

Dust to Dust: Fangs For Your Memories & Fall From Grace (Avenging Angel) both are fantastic reads!

This novel starts slowly, allowing you to love the main character Lexie, hate her tormentors and want desperately to mooch around Tokyo with her.

As things soon start to heat up all sorts of critters seep out of the walls, literally.

From werecats, demon hounds, fairies, Gods, sprites and magic this books sparks and then spellbinds you (see what I did there!) to your chair compelling you to read until the end.

This is blissfully only the first book of maybe three, possibly more, as this world is so full!

Hinting at all the possibles, maybes and secrets to be revealed this shoots you to the ending, and drops you off a cliff!

The characters are believable and intriguing. The surrounding story is steeped in various myths, religions and history. The main story line is fast, furious, bloody and magical.

Eden Crowne cleverly uses local temples/structures and her obvious extensive travel knowledge to weave a fantastic world, none of which us mere mortals are aware of.

I am so looking forward to more by this author, she is brilliant!

Fear Club Tokyo Masquerade

Fall from Grace by Eden Crowne

Angels, Demons, marks of death and lots of sex! how could you go wrong with that mix!

Eden Crowne has done it again.... she has written an intricate book of demons/angels, with other monsters thrown into the mix, and then mulched it all up with some really great sex.

Poor Evie and Trick - a match made in heaven and then scuppered by the demons.

You won't find any out right gore here but you will find lots of well thought out monsters who are perfectly described and just enough information to get your imagination bubbling.

Love the character development... and Barracuda is so far my favourite... want to know more!

Cleverly woven political landscape, a light hearted read, but with an underlying current - very clever writing.

The story is focused yet eludes to a much larger "world", really looking forward to more of this.

Oh and lets not forget about the thigh clenching sex scenes, phew!

Grace Avenging Angel Series

Dust to Dust by Eden Crowne

Well, I have to admit I picked this up as part of a free promotion on a FB page.

However, I have now purchased the other two books Fear Club: Tokyo Masquerade & Fall From Grace (Avenging Angel) as I was so impressed with the story and writing.

WOW. I was thrown straight into the story as our main character, Tasmin, joins her new body and meets Drake, a Fae.

The story is intricate, well thought out, lots of differing strings attached but so wonderfully written you have NO trouble keeping up.

Throughout reading this story (a straight 4hr read, could NOT put it down) I just kept feeling myself say WOW....

All the different supernatural beings are in there, I don't think the author left one out! but none are gratuitous, all have a place!

What really comes through is the sense of story and how far this could go, so I hope the author is up to it!

The humour is amazing; one reincarnation is of a bo-peep/sheep hybrid!

Amongst the gore is also some really raunchy, yet not icky, erotica.

I cant wait for more from this Eden Crowne! I am definitely a BIG fan now.

Dust Fangs Your Memories

Pressure by Jeff Strand

A very harrowing start to the book, but wow was I gripped.

It is written as a narrative which works very well later in the book when things are merely eluded too, really builds the tension.

Split into three very distinctive parts of Alex's life, with a finale and, my favourite, an epilogue (tying up those loose, niggley end).

The story of a basically happy man Jeff Strands takes you through those angst ridden, who will like me/my parents hate me/what's wrong or right teenage years, to college life and then on into adulthood.

However, on his tail is Darren, who is just a little bit weird.

The first part is set in a boarding school which brings its own horrors as to the treatment of children and then expecting them to grow up to be nice, productive, socially acceptable people!  The issues with Darren come to an alarming conclusion as Alex and his two friends discover their own version of the Law.

As Alex looks forward to the mayhem of college and a chance to be his own man, his life turns into a type of hell with a cat and mouse game of terror.

Life it seems, becomes perfect later on, all trauma is forgotten, but the hatchet vs cactus, the pit and Gallery of Horrors soon come into play; the lovely Alex is soon considering his kangeroo court again.

Whilst I really enjoyed how this was written and the basic story was great, I was irritated by the lead character Alex for mostly being a wimp, but I suppose that IS reality, how would we all react to strange, non socially conforming behaviour?

Having previously only read Wolf Hunt I was also surprised by the lack of humour, other than HeeHee, HawHaw and HoHo   which did make me giggle a bit; that said this deals with some seriously disgusting stuff so comedy would probably have been out of place.

Really looking forward to reading all the other novels by Jeff Strand.

Pressure

Under the Scotch Broom by Allison M. Dickson

The opening line is smirk worthy! and from then on in the story is excellent.

The seemingly Plague infected Elvis, who knows everyone and possibly everything, has a proposition for the Doc. 

The research Doc who just happens to have a potential cure for all germs/elixir of immortality inoculation; I read horror, I know where this is going, maybe....

As Ms Dickson reveals her characters and the back, and ongoing, story she delighted me with her descriptions of Elvis falling to pieces.

As slowly the plot thickens speeding towards the conclusion, I was sure I knew which way this was going to end....nope! and its a brilliant one at that!

Allison M. Dickson is always a superb read, her talent in the manipulation of words to conjure up all sorts of images is excellent. 

Her imagination and ability to share those thoughts result in some real scares,  none of them overly beyond belief, such is her attention to detail and explanation.

As with all of AMD's stories she allows you in to her thought process at the end with a little comment - a really lovely, personal touch.

Under the Scotch Broom

The Vampire of Plum Run by James Glass

Told as a narrative but cleverly done as a tour guide on a battlefield, giving a real sense of ambiance to the whole tale; you can almost feel the heat shimmering off the grass and feel the cool stone walls of the castle.

For such a short story Mr Glass has done a lot of research, or has a lot of personal knowledge, regarding the area/site of the story, this lends a great authenticity.

This is only a 20 min' read but it leaves you with a real sense of curiosity and a I couldn't help but smile at the skill that makes me still think about those characters hours later.

There is nothing overly gross, vampiric or gore laden about this tale but it still left me with a spine tingle.

The Vampire of  Plum Run

Redeem Code Here by Christine Sutton

A short story of revenge that gave me a little shudder.

Christine Sutton managed to make the hairs on my arms stand up as she explains about the poor chap who loses time to a website; no, it wasn't Facebook!

He soon learns the true meaning of revenge and the consequences of his apathy.

Such are the descriptions that I wondered what was on fire in my own kitchen!

For such a perfectly timed lunch break read this really gave me the spooks; no more free codes for me thanks.

Redeem Code Here