KINDIG

JAPANESE GOTHIC KYLIE LEE BAKER ***** 2025 Lee can't remember exactly where he hid the body, but he can remember the blood. Hiding out at his father's centuries-old home in Japan, Lee knows something is wrong with him, and he knows it has something to do with his mother's disappearance almost a decade ago. 1877 A female samurai, Sen, stalks the borders of her home to protect her family from slaughter after the abolition of the samurai class. She's not sure how they'll ever su

NIGHT BABIES LUCIE MCKNIGHT HARDY **** All my fears have vanished, and I realise now that my dreams were not nightmares but a sign of what was to come, how this will end. An inevitability.' Things were looking up for Astrid Aspden and her partner, Kit, until their house flooded. With Astrid's first solo art exhibition just weeks away, her paintings are ruined and excitement has turned to despair. She is thrown a lifeline when her best friend Flora invites her to stay in a run

WOLF WORM T. KINGFISHER ***** The year is 1899 and Sonia Wilson is a scientific illustrator without work, prospects or hope. When the reclusive Dr. Halder offers her a position illustrating his vast collection of insects, Sonia jumps at the chance to move to his North Carolina manor house and put her talents to use. But soon enough she finds that there are darker things at work in the Carolina woods. What happened to her predecessor, Halder’s wife? Why are animals acting so s

GRACE A.M. SHINE *** TO LEARN THE TRUTH WOULD YOU DESCEND INTO HELL? Off the west coast of Ireland lies a lonely island, isolated and wilfully forgotten. Some say there hasn’t been a child born on the island for thirty years. Others speak of strange deaths there, decades ago. But no one really knows what happened. Locals believe that the dark times are behind them. They are mistaken. Grace, adopted at four years old, has never known where she came from. A mysterious phone cal

WE CALL THEM WITCHES INDIA-ROSE BOWER **** Britain, two years after they came . . . Most people have been devoured by the eldritch creatures. Sara and her family have been fighting for survival. And the only thing that works against these monsters – these Witches - is their knowledge of folklore and pagan rituals. But when a girl named Parsley suddenly appears in the garden of their current camp, she cannot remember where she came from or why she’s there. As Sara and Parsley

KINDIG GEMS OF 2025 PART 1 2025 has been a great year for new book releases! I have found some GEMS this year, so lets explore them together: THE GARDEN NICK NEWMAN In a place and time unknown, two elderly sisters live in a walled garden, secluded from the outside world. For as long as they can remember, Evelyn and Lily have only had each other. What was before the garden, they have forgotten; what lies beyond it, they do not know. Each day is spent in languid service to thei

HEMO SAPIENS EMILY WEEDON ***** These women are out for blood. Detective Luke Stockton is preparing for his first child with his wife,...

THE SCALD CROW GRACE DALY ***** Brigid—that’s the Irish Breej, not “Bridge-id,” though it’s not like she’d correct you—has had a rough go...

SEASON OF FEAR EMILY COOPER ***** BLOOD SPILLS FROM VEINS, SKIN STARTS TO CRACK, IGNORE THE FOREST; TURN BACK, TURN BACK . . . In the...

UNSEEN GODS JUSTIN HOLLEY ** Careful what you search for, you may just find it. With grotesque glimpses of the disappeared, the past is...

EXILES MASON COILE ***** You can read my previous review of William by Mason Coile here . 2030. The human crew sent to prepare the first...

PLAY NICE RACHEL HARRISON ***** Clio Louise Barnes leads a picture-perfect life as a stylist and influencer, but beneath the glossy...

ONE YELLOW EYE LEIGH RADFORD ***** Full of heartbreak, revulsion and black humour, a scientist desperately searches for a cure to a...