This is more of a pure horror, rather than thriller, so I think it would appeal mostly to horror fans who don’t mind plenty of gore.

Cine got me thinking about how strange the human mind is. Why do some of us thrive on horror films/books, yet if we witness real life acts of violence we are shocked and horrified? It’s clever how the brain experiences them as two very different things, but it’s also fascinating that our responses to true and fictional violence can be so extremely different.

Next time you feel tempted to moan about the service at your local cinema, just be grateful that it’s not quite like the new cinema in Lake Whisper.

Overall I give this 3 stars as it is a well written horror story with attention to detail when it came to the more gruesome parts. The last chapter or so gets 4 stars for having my heart racing.

Thank you to the author for sending me an eBook copy of Cine, after I won a copy in a giveaway run by Booklover Catlady Publicity.

This is a very tense, sweat inducing, fast paced thriller of a novella.

The Customer is Always Right brought back old memories of the two years I worked for a Life Assurance company in the late 90s. I actually worked for one of the admin teams, but occasionally we were dragged off our section kicking and screaming to cover for the helpline. I absolutely dreaded having to cover on the helpline.

One day I had a customer wanting to know about their policy. I did the usual security checks, and all seemed okay, so I gave him the further details he requested. It was as I was doing this that I spotted some scanned images of previous correspondence with all sorts of red scribble added to them by staff, warning that there was suspicious and potential fraudulent behaviour taking place, and that the customer ringing may not actually be the owner of the policy. It sent me into a state of panic, as I felt way out of my depth.

To this day, I still don’t know how I kept it together, but I managed to somehow calmly convince the customer I was going to allow them to close their policy and claim the full value on it. I talked him into sending his request in writing to me personally. When it arrived on my desk a couple of weeks later, he had provided me with his address in Nigeria, and was then caught by people way above me. I got praised for helping to solve a fraud case, but I could have so easily got in trouble instead if it hadn't gone quite the way it did.

Because of my own experience, I absolutely loved the tension in this story and felt I could relate to what Vincent was going through. This was very hard to put down, and I’m definitely looking forward to reading more by this author.

Thank you to the author for sending me an eBook copy of The Customer is Always Right, after I won a copy in a giveaway run by Booklover Catlady Publicity.

This book is a very dark psychological thriller, which is both fast paced and somewhat tense at times.

BLED is raw, brutal, and contains acts of graphic violence, which I would say would be most enjoyed by fans of horror or dark serial killer thrillers. It felt very much like watching a slasher film at times, except I didn’t have a cushion to hide behind, as I was using it to rest my Kindle on.

I’ve grown up reading horror since a young age, so I’m not easily scared or traumatised by graphic content. I don’t read a lot of crime or serial killer novels though. I found that with BLED exposing me to a high amount of sex as well as graphic violence, it did heighten my sense of feeling more disturbed. There is a lot of sex, and not much of the affectionate, loving kind. Even when there are scenes that may be described as erotic, I was unable to view them in that way, as my mind was still dealing with more uncomfortable images from previous pages.

Frank is a great character. He is one of the most grotesque characters I have come across in a book for quite a while. He had me concerned for the author’s state of mind. I thought the author might wish to attend a couple of sessions of anger management or perhaps some intensive counselling, ha, ha. Frank needs to get a grip (excuse the pun) of his sexual urges. If you can get past the amount of sex, and stomach the acts of violence that seem to bring Frank sexual pleasure, then this is actually a really good dark psychological serial killer thriller.

I have discovered that I really don’t like the word ‘engorged’. However, this book did introduce me to one of the best uses for the book Fifty Shades Darker. Despite there being some rather graphic scenes, it’s surprising that the image that has stayed the strongest in my mind is probably one of the least shocking scenes, involving a steering wheel (best not thought about while eating).

I would definitely read more by this author in the future.

Thank you to the author for sending me an eBook copy of BLED, after I won a copy in a giveaway run by Booklover Catlady Publicity.

Housebroken is an action packed horror thriller about a family who are held hostage in their own home, and much, much more!

I found this book so hard to put down, eager to find out what was going to happen next. It was tense, very tense, scary, sometimes terrifying, occasionally graphic and most certainly claustrophobic at times. While my own mind was desperate to get out of this book, my hands refused to let go of my Kindle.

You know that on edge feeling that horror films in the 80s and 90s used to give you, when you’re left with a feeling that it’s not quite over yet. This book has left me with that feeling. I've been feeling on edge since finishing this book yesterday morning, and keep jumping when I hear unexpected sounds inside or outside my house.

Just be careful how you treat someone who tries to sell you something on your doorstep. The last person to try sell me something at my door was a dodgy bloke pretending to be ex-military selling for a military charity. I got suspicious when I mentioned my own husband is in the military, and he went quiet. Upon looking up the supposed charity online, they do not have injured ex-soldiers selling on doorsteps. I am so glad I read this book after that and not before. I honestly think that the next time someone tries to sell me something on my doorstep, I may go into a state of panic!

I would like to thank Booklover Catlady Publicity for a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review, and wish the author great success with this book.