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Book Review: Your Servants and Your People by David Towsey

Posted on February 17, 2015 15 Comments

Your Servants and Your People by David Towsey Genre: Fantasy Series: Book 2 of The Walkin’ Trilogy Publisher: Jo Fletcher (November 6, 2014) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars In 2013, Jo Fletcher Books sent me a copy of David Towsey’s Your Brother’s Blood and introduced me to a whole new perspective on the walking dead, and […]

Comic Stack 02/11/14

Posted on February 11, 2015 2 Comments

This week I met Poe, a young boy born with black feathers whose destiny seems to rest in a game played by omnipresent beings, Laney Griffin, a man who has a chance encounter in the woods after deciding to do whatever necessary to help his dying son, Kate Kristopher, who has to return to her fantasy […]

Audiobook Review: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Posted on February 9, 2015 14 Comments

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Genre: Horror Publisher: Penguin Books (1959) Author Information: Website Tiara’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars Occult scholar Dr. John Montague rents Hill House for the summer after hearing of the strange occurrences that happened there. No family has been able to stay in house for more than […]

YA Weekend: Shutter by Courtney Alameda

Posted on January 10, 2015 14 Comments

Shutter by Courtney Alameda Genre: Young Adult, Horror Series: Book 1 Publisher: Feiwel & Friends (February 3, 2015) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars Horror in Young Adult fiction is tricky territory, so whenever I see a novel getting some buzz, I can’t help but take notice. Shutter ended up surprising me. While it probably wasn’t […]

Mogsy: Best Of 2014 and the Year in Review

Posted on December 29, 2014 43 Comments

This has been an amazing year for reading! At the time of this writing, in 2014 I have read a total of 191 books. Here’s the Goodreads spread for what that looks like: So you see, choosing just 5 or 10 or even 20 books to highlight as the best of this year is going to be […]

Book Review: My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland

Posted on December 15, 2014 16 Comments

My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland Genre: Urban Fantasy, Zombies Publisher: DAW (January 2011) Author Info: dianarowland.com Wendy’s Rating: 5 of 5 stars Supernatural creatures like vampires and werewolves have been getting the Hollywood treatment lately, turning them into sparkly objects of desire. Well, zombies need love too! Unfortunately, there’s that whole […]

Book Review: Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix

Posted on December 1, 2014 24 Comments

Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix Genre: Horror Series: Stand Alone Publisher: Quirk (September 23, 2014) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 4 of 5 stars Horrorstör scratched a really great itch. When it comes to the Horror genre, I’m an unabashed fan of ghost stories and books about hauntings. Thing is, because so many of them follow the same formula and use […]

#RRSciFiMonth: Falling Sky by Rajan Khanna

Posted on November 25, 2014 16 Comments

Sci-Fi November is a month-long blog event hosted by Oh The Books and Rinn Reads this year, created to celebrate everything amazing about science fiction! From TV shows to movies, books to comics, and everything else in between, it is intended to help science fiction lovers share their love and passion for this genre and its many, […]

#RRSciFiMonth: Echopraxia by Peter Watts

Posted on November 17, 2014 17 Comments

Sci-Fi November is a month-long blog event hosted by Oh The Books and Rinn Reads this year, created to celebrate everything amazing about science fiction! From TV shows to movies, books to comics, and everything else in between, it is intended to help science fiction lovers share their love and passion for this genre and its many, […]

Book Review: Fiend by Peter Stenson

Posted on October 31, 2014 12 Comments

Fiend by Peter Stenson Genre: Horror Series: Stand Alone Publisher: Crown (April 8, 2014) Author Information: Website | Twitter Mogsy’s Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Despite the modest page count and a fascinating premise about what the zombie apocalypse would look like if meth heads were the only survivors – which, I have to say, is a pretty awesome social thought experiment – […]