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|summary=Vic McQueen has Love is love; although humans continue to be confused by this sentiment. Gay conversion therapy is ongoing. The UK government ruled out plans to make it a talent for finding thingscrime and, in the US, nearly 700 000 adults have received it. Her little Raleigh bicycle can take her over Although it is both a seemingly demolished bridge near her home secular and takes her a religious prejudice, Chuck Tingle, in his new horror, ''Camp Damascus'', peels back the skin of Christian ''pray the gay away'' camps to places where lost items have come outshow the reader the horror lurking within.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529382823|title=The Last Passenger|author=Will Dean|rating=4. Over the years, 5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Caroline Riley (she prefers 'Caz') is middle-aged and has built up stories found herself somewhat surprisingly in her head as love with Pete. They're off on a cruise to how she found these itemsNew York on ''Atlantica''. Caz's sister, Gemma, reckons that Pete is going to propose but as Caz hasn't spotted a ring-shaped bulge in his suit pocket and she gets older, doesn't know whether she becomes more 's relieved or disappointed. They've not been a couple for that long and more unable the trip will be an excellent opportunity to find herselfget to know him a bit better. One dayMeanwhile, she takes her bridge to a place where she finds Charles Talent Manx III, a man Gemma is looking after Caz's cafe as well as their mother who has a similar talent, but uses it dementia. It's going to take children out of the worldbe good, rather than bringing lost things back into isn't it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575130679</amazonuk>?

 {{newreviewfrontpage|isbn=1803363002|author=Chris WoodingEric LaRocca|title=SilverThe Trees Grew Because I Bled There|rating=5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Horror taps into something primeval within us. It is used as a way to reflect our darkest emotions and how we as humans react and process them. Most horror fiction feature a ''Big Bad'Silver' has , whether that is a home invader, a monster or a large ant with silver circuits on the coverghost, it usually something tangible and while there are no actual ants in this book, by the illustration is very well suited. This books puts a unique twist on end of the ever popular zombie genre. Instead of living corpsesstory, we have nanobots which can turn humans into machinesbeatable. They possess a swarm intelligence similar to antsEric LaRocca's ''The Trees Grew Because I Bled There'' is not like that. This sounds far fetched but It is a great deal collection of progress has been made in research currently being conducted with just this in mind - to create nanobots with swarm intelligence - a phenomenon well known short stories more interested in the natural sciences in which a less intelligent organism is capable horrors of highly intelligent behaviour through a hive mind. It would be impossible for scientists to control hundreds or thousands of nanobots independently - so the idea is to control a few illness, grief and have these control the resthumiliation. Of course there would always be safeguards on this type of technology Horrors that linger and there were safeguards in the book as well - they just didnare harder to defeat than any ''Big Bad''t work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407124285</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Darren Shan|title=ZOM-B Angels|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=OkBut of course, he knows why. I'm Sam is an erstwhile drug dealer who escaped this down and dirty life by going to do this for all books in this series except the first onea retreat and emerging as a neophyte Buddhist monk. Before we begin. If you haven't read Recently returning to join the first book community in this serieshis old neighbourhood, DONhe knew his past would be hard to escape but he hadn'T read t imagined it exploding into this review. It contains spoilers. Read my review of the first book, read the first book itself, then come back. If you don't, you'll be sorry..new life in quite such a violent fashion. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077643</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lily HerneChristopher Golden|title=DeadlandsRoad of Bones|rating=3.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=I was hesitant to choose this bookThe Kolyma Highway… the 'Road of Bones'… the R504. I love Stretching for over a good dystopian future bookthousand miles across Siberia, it's one of the world's most notorious routes. The problem is For months of the year it's a spread of sheet ice suspended above the permafrost surrounding it, while its 'spring' sees it turn into a huge blodge of unremitting, apocalyptic-level mud, which dries into rutted, puddly dust. I don't define think google streetview updates it very many of them as goodoften. I have read far Built because Stalin wanted so much uranium and other Siberian minerals, and because he wanted to give too many zombie books people a lesson, it legendarily cost a life every metre it covers. You can easily find documentaries about it online, but that really don't offer anything differents a bit rich, plenty for one of bloodour main characters, goreFelix 'Teig' Teigland, and damsels in distressis a film-maker, but not enough character developmentdoing a recce with his cameraman buddy, or logical thoughtJohn Prentiss – who's mostly there to encourage the project to fruition to claw back some of the funds he'd invested in the pair's prior TV projects. Psychological horror can be ever They pick up their oh-so much more chilling than blood and guts-chatty local guide, but it is also much more difficult to pull off. Sarah and Savannah Lotzgain the company of a local beauty, the mother and daughter team who have written this book under fetch up at the pen name Lily Herne, have managed guide's childhood village. And that's where things start to do this perfectly.go awry…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1472100905</amazonuk>1803361476

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Chris PriestleyAlly Wilkes|title=Through Dead EyesAll the White Spaces

|genre=TeensHorror|summary=After In post-WWI England, Jonathan Morgan stows away on an unfortunate episode at schoolArctic expedition led by the famous Australis Randall. For Jonathan, Alex has joined his father on this adventure represents a chance for a business trip to Amsterdam. He had been hoping fresh start, and the opportunity to spend some time with live life as his fatherauthentic self and true gender, but instead he is palmed off on Angelien, daughter without the disapproval and constraints of his father's new girlfriendparents. But Angelien is pretty and so Alex is quite happy to be shown around by her. When her boyfriend Dirk However, Jonathan isn't aroundthe only one fleeing the confines of his past and the shadow of the war hangs like a funeral shroud over the expedition. Guilt, that is. At an antique marketmistrust and grief stalk the party and, when disaster strikes and they are forced to overwinter on land, Alex finds himself drawn a menacing presence waits to an ancient-looking maskprey on their darkness. He can't help but buy If Jonathan is to make it. And out of the Arctic winter alive, he will have to face his demons once boughtand for all, he can't help but put it onor risk making the barren, icy landscape his tomb. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408811065</amazonuk>1789097835

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Shaun HutsonAmanda Mason|title=The Revenge of FrankensteinHiding Place|rating=43.5

|summary=Imprisoned Needing an escape from their turbulent life, Nell Galilee takes her husband and sentenced stepdaughter to death for the crimes he feels were caused Whitby, where they rent a cliffside holiday cottage by his creation and not his drive to bend the reach and morals name of medical science, Doctor Frankenstein is given a way Elder House. She hopes that it will be the perfect place to sort things out of the guillotine. But there's grasp, something not quite right about Elder House. The atmosphere is unsettling and off – and gains a loyal adherent in the misshapen form of Carl. They move on before long Nell starts to work together at a charitable hospital, which serves merely as a front for the Doctorsuspect that she and her family aren's usual experimentst alone there…|isbn=1838771964}} {{Frontpage|isbn=8409290103|title=If Only|author=Matthew Tree|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Twenty-one-year-old Malcolm Lowry had been sent abroad by his father, transplanting body organscotton-broker AO Lowry: he asked his accountant, reviving corpses or bits thereofMr Patrick, to ensure that the young man got on board the boat and bringing new forms of life thereafter Patrick was to the worldsend him a monthly allowance. Cue yet another problematic creation, with an unfortunate way of leaving Patrick sent the money regularly and a trail correspondence - of violence and vehemencesorts - sprang up between the two although we hear more about what Lowry has to say than Patrick. It wasn't that Lowry senior didn't care for his son, but with another innocent female it was that he didn't care to tender have him, in this respectful country where he might be a danger to his wife and intelligent sequelother children. The alcohol problem was obvious even before Patrick managed to get the young man on his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556235</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Andrew Fukuda1787301435|title=The PreyDark Waters|author=G R Halliday

|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Having escaped Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turrit. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the vampires hunting them on blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the boat left by steering wheel and hit a tree. When she came round after the Scientistsaccident she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'd made her first mistake some time ago, Genealthough the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.}}{{Frontpage|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Women, Sissy by and large, have always been the boys make their way down subjugated sex. Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the river powerful man and arrive at the Missionlet nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. Food It is abundant, an ode to the place is peaceful, and the Elders promise strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a trip on the next train predatory male vampire who moves in to Civilisationtheir quiet cul de sac. Gene |isbn=1683691431}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529009677|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Tom Sullivan and Sissy can hardly believe ithis wife Rachel are having problems. But it It's soon apparent that not just the Mission is not all it seems usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and Gene begins to wonder if they havenat sixteen wasn't simply exchanged one hellhole for anotherlegally entitled to drive. Although they find out Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a great deal more about the Scientist - tree, but he developed the Originalso killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a cure for vampirism - understanding his plans sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is as frustrating as everbroken, but she wants to forgive Michael. And with To give some space, Tom's moved out of the vampires coming ever closerfamily home, even but stresses to the Mission itselfhis thirteen-year-old daughter, and the Elders making moves of their ownHolly, time that it is running out and Gene and Sissy must decide what to do..only a trial separation. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857075446</amazonuk>

Dread Nation narrates the unconventional life of Jane McKeene who was born days before the dead began to walk the streets. An event which is interrupting the civil war between the states altered American history forever. In the changing world, minorities are forced into conscription and under the new Native and Negro Re-education Act children are placed in combat schools where they are trained extensively to destroy the dead once and for all. For Jane and other girls like her, there is however the opportunity for a better life by being employed as an attendant. With deadly capabilities and perfect etiquette, attendants protect those higher in society and are valued above all else.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Guy Booth1471407764|title=The Arthur Moreau StoryTwisted Tree|author=Rachel Burge|rating=3.5

|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Johnny Debrett is an unlikely heroMartha's world has changed. Blind in one eye after falling from a tree, given his occupation as she wakes with a seller of second hand booksdisturbing gift. She can read people through their clothes, but he has some illustrious connections, not least to Sir Frederick Appleby. Some say that ''he'' runs secrets tumble from the country and Appleby's deputyweave, Peter Tyndale is married to Debrettrevealing insights she doesn's sistert really want, Celia. Our tale began many years before with some two hundred mysterious and widely reported deaths on a French island which hadnknowledge she doesn't elicited a single cry of grief from a relative, but we join the story as Appleby asks Debrett understand. She flees to attend the funeral in France of a former business partner, Arthur Moreau. There are, apparentlyher grandmother, some unresolved queries about Moreau and despite DebrettMormor's estrangement from the deceased over recent years he's thought cabin, seeking answers no one is prepared to be the person best able to obtain the answersgive and stumbles into a world of menace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906791740</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Darren Shan1788950720|title=Zom-B Underground Whiteout (Red Eye)|author=Gabriel Dylan

|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Ok. Before we begin. Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If you haven't read the [[Zom-B by Darren Shan|first book]] in this series, DON'T read this review. It contains spoilers. Read my review of the first bookso, read the first book itself, then come back. If you don't, you'll be sorry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857077562</amazonuk>}}on!

{{newreview|author=Graham McNamee|title=Beyond|rating=4Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains.5|genre=Teens|summary=Teenager JaneHe's not having much fun. A miserable home life so far has been plagued given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kid. Charlie tends to go off by nearhimself -fatal accidents. The last one left not always a nail embedded safe thing to do if you're staying in her brain a ski resort - and the doctors say surgery this is too dangerous. And she sleepwalks at night, walking alone in a daze up what brings him into contact with one of the highway. As you can imagineski guides, Jane's parents are beyond worried about herHanna. But they donHanna herself doesn't know have the worst of it. Only Lexi, Jane's best friend happiest backstory and fellow Creep Sister, does. The truth is that Jane's shadow is trying to kill her. Literally. She has no control over it but it has control of herthis forms a connection between them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144491278X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James Herbert9386897385|title=AshNothing Lasting|author=Laura Solomon|rating=43.5

|summary=There are strange goings on at Comraich CastleWe never know the man's name but let's call him ''Boyo''. It's what his mother used to call him, with the normal poltergeist type activities of cold spots in rooms and the lights inexplicably dimming having escalated into a resident being not least because he found pinned to the wall of it annoying. When we first meet Boyo his room by his own blood mother is alive, if not ''living'' as most people would understand it. She spends her days watching daytime television and innardsdrinking. David Ash Housework is sent a foreign country. When she dies she's not missed, firstly because she'd spent a couple of years in to investigatea mental hospital, but he mainly because her ghost continues to haunt Boyo. She wants him to achieve something in his life: what she has in mind is warned that he must work alone and in secrecy, as whilst some of the residents of Comraich Castle are not ghosts, they are considered long dead by the outside world and that world must never know of their continued existencecould be a famous arsonist.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230706959</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cherie Priest1538761858|title=Eden Moore – Not Flesh Nor FeathersThe Anomaly|author=Michael Rutger

|summary=A year has passed since medium Eden Moore's brush with the [[Eden Moore Tomb Raider meets Indiana Jones within an X- Wings to Files episode, for the Kingdom by Cherie Priest|ghostly battlefields]] and she's certainly come a long way since Youtube era. Join the [[Eden Moore – Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest|first time]] we encountered her. Sheintrepid (if rather inept) team of internet adventurers as they head out on yet another search for 's learnt a lot from media celebrity Dana Marshall, is nearly 25 and has decided it's time to move out of Aunt Lu and Uncle Davidan anomaly's place. She even has her eye on an apartment in a downtown block by the river. However, some things don't change. The Read House is being renovated only to combine a hotel and Starbucks but (spoilers) actually find one room remains untouched due to paranormal activity. Eden's TV journalist friend Nick calls her in to communicate with the ghostImagine if, instead of being scared by their own acting, a young girl who isn't satisfied with scary noises Derek Acorah and shifting ornaments. Within moments of entering Eden Yvette Fielding actually found something; that is trapped as the phantom attempts to tear her limb from limb mumbling about how 'they' are coming for herstarting point of this book. Who are 'they'? Why are people disappearing near Deep in a cave within the river? Chattanooga will soon Grand Canyon our team of adventurers find out as it's about to flood themselves trapped in a Stephen King plot with added levels of paranoia and in conspiracy thrown into the mud something stirsblend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857687743</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan Hill1683690122|title=The Man in the PictureWe Sold Our Souls|author=Grady Hendrix|rating=45

|summary=There The night manager of a Best Western, Kris Pulaski is a theory regarding ghosts that they are projected recordings from the very brickwork washed up and unhappy. Few know of her past as guitarist of buildings 90's Heavy Metal band Dürt Würk – that a band once tipped for greatness, but destined to obscurity after lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career, rocketing to stardom as ''Koffin'stone tapes' can replay scenes or characters . When a shocking act of heightened emotion so violence turns Kris's life upside down – she is forced to look back to a past she has tried to forget – and to a deal Hunt made that people can see may have sabotaged more than just the vestige of what went beforeband. What if something In a bit more animated than journey that will take Kris from a building – dusty hotel to a livelyhellish music festival, realistic oil painting – can also convey collected recorded instances of such strong feelings - feelings such as mortal terror? It would be like Dorian Grayshe's portrait, recording all determined to face the horrorsman who ruined her life. But with dark forces rising and threatening everything Kris holds dear, keeping them intact in one place – but would it will Kris be able to defeat the cause or odds? Or will Hell truly be unleashed on the effectEarth…?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685443</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Susan HillETDWB|title=DollyEven The Dead Will Bleed: Book 3 of Tell Me When I'm Dead|author=Steven Ramirez

|summary=An empty house in In the remote fenlands third and final part of Englandthe ''Tell Me When I'm Dead'' series, with a man returning Dave Pulaski is headed to it alone… a lawyer sorting out an inheritance… something buried yet Los Angeles – seeking revenge and retribution. With the events of book two still yielding power… [[:Category:Susan Hill|Susan Hill]]'s nameweighing heavily on Dave, he struggles against the rage burning inside him and the subtitle 'saves Sasha – a ghost story' on young escapee from the cover… We do seem secret testing facility. As events come to be in the territory a climax, and Dave finds himself pursued by both an ex-military sociopath and a group of [[The Woman in Black by Susan Hill|The Woman in Black]]scientifically engineered humans who flay their victims alive, but worry not the stakes are higher than ever before – will Dave make it out of this new short genre novel is a very different beast.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685745</amazonuk>alive? And what kind of world will he have left?

{{newreview|author=Yrsa Sigurdardottir|title=I Remember You|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Too often, people – such as myself – refer Move on to a book as being a rollercoaster read, mostly down to a simply topsy-turvy plot. But this is the true embodiment of a white-knuckle ride. It has the anxiety of the queue as we watch three people – a couple and another young woman – get ferried across the fjord to one of western Iceland's most remote outposts, with the aim being to renovate an old building as a guesthouse. There's the crunch of the roll-cage protection bars locking us in as we find that something very malevolent is hiding in the tiny settlement. And just as the car starts we might be seeking in vain the relieved thumbs-up from those leaving the ride, telling us all is well and all survived.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444738496</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Humour Reviews]]