Melanie Kubachko was born and raised in rural northwestern Pennsylvania. She received a degree at Allegheny College and went on to earn a master's degree in social work from the University of Denver. Apart from a varied career in social work she has published short fiction in numerous publications, including Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Skin of the Soul, and Final Shadows. Her work has also been included in such anthologies as Women of Darkness and Women of the West.
audible:This was a mostly good supernatural book.Greg is an unwanted foster child.Bad things happen when he is around. One woman decides she can fix him.There are some very uncomfortable things in this book.A child lost,a child possibly miscarried...trigger warning. Leslie Narramore was a fine narrator.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.'
This book is one of those books that you read because you want to read a book from a female horror writer, and you quickly realize as you turn each page why people don't read books from female horror writers. Not only was this a rather stereotypical take on what women (and only women) are known to be afraid of, but this wasn't horror. It was more a wishy-washy drama than something a real horror fan can sink their teeth into. Maybe if more female horror writers wrote horror that was for everyone instead of to such a small audience, more of us would be read by readers. It's female writers that write stories like this that prove the stereotype correct.
An inevitability pervades what happens. A fated catalytic ricochet of tongue-twisted oldster and miscontrolled youth. That blood moon seeping back through the clouds. And, as perhaps instinctualised predictively by me above, Greg now looking back at himself in his own mother’s womb. The house of the soul’s as well as the flesh’s beginning: now in metaphorical flames to match real flames elsewhere.
The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here. Above is one of my observations at the time of the review.
This was a mostly good supernatural book.Greg is an unwanted foster child.Bad things happen when he is around. One woman decides she can fix him.There are some very uncomfortable things in this book.A child lost,a child possibly miscarried...trigger warning. Leslie Narramore was a fine narrator.I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.'