Stacking the Shelves & The Sunday Post

Stacking The Shelves (Reading Reality) and The Sunday Post (Caffeinated Reviewer) are both blog memes about sharing the books we’re adding to the shelves and sharing news of the week ahead.

New ArrivalsThe Complete Morgaine by C. J. Cherryh

Together for the first time in one volume—all four novels in the dark science fiction epic, the Morgaine Cycle.

The gates were relics of a lost era, a linked network of portals that the ruthless Qual empire used to span Time and Space. The Science Buereau has come to believe that sometime, somewhere in the unreachable past, someone has done the unthinkable and warped the very fabric of the universe using these gates. Now, it is up to Morgaine, a mysterious woman aided by a single warrior honor-bound to serve her, to travel from world to world sealing the ancient gates whose very existence threatens the integrity of all worlds…

Darkness, Tell Us by Richard Laymon

It started as a game. Six college kids at a party. Then someone suggested they try the Ouija board. The board that Corie had hidden in the back of her closet and swore never to touch again. Not after what happened last time. Not after Jake’s death…

They were only playing around, but the Ouija board worked, all right. Maybe too well. A spirit who called himself Butler began to send them messages—and make demands. Butler promised them a hidden treasure if only they would follow his directions and head off to a secluded spot in the mountains…A wild, isolated spot where anything could be waiting for them. Treasure or death. Or Butler himself.

EnterPAINment by Wol-vriey

Welcome to EnterPAINment – The Margaret Mayhem Show.

When former MMA fighter Dave Ferguson accepts a mysterious job with EnterPAINment Corp, he thinks he’s found the ultimate gig: a thousand dollars a day to work with elite MMA fighters in a secret facility.

Welcome to “Somewhere”—where pain is profit. Run by the gorgeous but icy Margaret Mayhem, “Somewhere” is a prison of pleasure and brutality, built to satisfy the darkest desires of the world’s richest women.

At Somewhere, fighters brawl for blood while prostitutes and servants cater to every vice. Surveillance is total. Escape is impossible. And beneath the luxury lies something far worse—rituals of power and pain that blur the line between sport and sacrifice.

Margaret Mayhem is the gorgeous high priestess overseeing the temple of the world’s pain. As Dave descends deeper into the madness of EnterPAINment, he must decide whether to play the game—Margaret Mayhem’s brutal game—or let it destroy him.

In Wol-vriey’s trademark blend of dark humor, eroticism, and horror, EnterPAINment exposes a world where violence is currency and pleasure demands a price no soul can afford.

Currently Reading

I’m still feeling burnt out and exhausted, but I’m making progress on Empire of the Dawn and should find time to review by B.J. Frazier this week.

Gabriel de León has lost his family, his faith, and his last hope of ending the endless night―the Holy Grail, Dior. With no desire left but vengeance, he and a band of loyal brothers journey into the war-torn heart of the Augustin Empire to claim the life of the Forever King.“An Ornamental Christmas” is a blending of A-ha’s “Take On Me” 1980s music video and a spoof of made-for-TV Christmas movies involving snow globes and alternate universes.
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