There's a reason why the Walking Dead, Supernatural, and pandemic films are so popular. It's not just our morbid fascination that leads us to consume art that touches on our fears--there's a real psychological benefit to it, too.
Book Review – Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
"The first madness was that we were born, that they stuffed a god into a bag of skin." Rarely do I come across a work that screams, "YOU WILL LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT ME," the way Freshwater shouted from the proverbial book stacks. It's taken me awhile to get to this review, simply because I found …
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Book Review – I Want the Stars
Science Fiction has a way of (in)forming our future reality, and "I Want the Stars" is no exception. Here, Tom Purdom has conceptualized a world that in the 1960s would have seemed unimaginable except among the rebels, one where humanity has transcended war, monogamy, and stigma around mental health care. However, this brilliant utopia and …
Deconstructing Design: Ground Control
Welcome to my newest series in which I document what the hell I was thinking when I designed a thing, whether that be a book cover, a book trailer, or just a passage in something I've written. I'm a chronic overthinker, so you can rest assured that many thoughts went into the construction. So let's …
Wild Things Will Roam by K.M. West: ARC Book Review
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Good hello, lovelies! Happy Monday! I hope you have a wonderful day. Happy International Women’s Day! I’ve been having a lot of fun with reading lately! I’m having a lot of fun with different genres and formats. A few people have reached out to read and review books, which has allowed me to read different work like today’s review!
Thank you so very much to The Lights Out Ink team for sending me a copy of Wild Things Will Roam by K.M. West for honest review. If it sounds good to you, it was released December 2020 so you can pick it up now!
My Lame Synopsis: There was a big Collapse, now years later, Lash runs into Liv thinking she was a Creat he was hunting. Goodreads
A good synopsis: Ander Farrow failed to fulfill his prophecy & the world ended. Now he uses his psychic powers for…
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Book Review – What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
"The problem with those that don't know real power is that they do not know real power."- Volcano What a powerful collection! In "What Happens When a Man Falls from the Sky," Leslie Nneka Arimah offers us stories that feel more like parables--a collection which weaves the mundane with the fantastical so fluidly that it …
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Book Review – You Were Never Really Here
A former Marine and ex-FBI agent, Joe has seen one too many crime scenes and known too much trauma, and not just in his professional life. Solitary and haunted, he prefers to be invisible. He doesn't allow himself friends or lovers and makes a living rescuing young girls from the deadly clutches of the sex …
Book Review – Ground Control
https://www.lightsoutink.com/ground-control Let's hear a round of applause for our girl, Sarah 👏🏼 Women's Fiction/FemLit is not my normal "cup of tea," and after reading Ground Control, I see where perhaps this is in error. I was enticed by the Sci-Fi vibes of a voyage to Mars, but as with most books in the Lights Out …
Writer’s Whirlwind.
ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ, ʏᴏᴜ ᴍᴜꜱᴛ ʙᴇ ᴀʟɪᴠᴇ. I tend to turn everything I love into work. It's almost like there's this subconscious penance to be paid for all the amazing things I've been blessed with -- this feeling that if I don't suffer (at least a little) for it, then I will no longer be …
This Moment.
"I'm not sure I enjoy living through all this history..."-- the resounding feelings of everyone collectively. I don't like to write when I have to pry the words from my mind. Usually, if I have nothing wise or witty to say, I just try to refrain from leaving paper-trail proof that I, too, am sometimes …
