Hi everyone! Offering free ARCs of my debut horror novel in exchange for honest reviews.
SEVERED BLOOD
In Singapore's gleaming clinics, Marisol Salazar is the best medical laboratory scientist in the city. She reads the dead for a living. Her own blood is the one sample she can't let anyone run.
She's built a life on control — a careful monster who kills clean, feeds quiet, and answers to no hunger she'll name aloud. Then a syndicate begins harvesting her kind for the marrow that keeps the rich forever young, and the only surgeon who can see what she truly is turns out to be the one person she cannot afford to love.
Surgical body horror, ancient appetite, and the terrible arithmetic of love — a folk-horror descent through Filipino aswang legend. First in a trilogy.
I'm a working clinical laboratory scientist, so the medical detail is accurate. Sometimes uncomfortably so.
⚠️ Content note: graphic violence and body horror. This is a dark read.
📖 ~60,000 words · EPUB, MOBI, and PDF 📖 A free sample is available before you commit — please read it first and make sure it's for you.
📅 Release date: August 3, 2026 📅 Reviews requested by: August 17, 2026 📚 Copies available: 50
Goodreads reviews welcome anytime. Amazon reviews can be posted on or after August 3. Honest reviews only — please don't feel any pressure to rate positively.
SEVERED BLOOD
In Singapore's gleaming clinics, Marisol Salazar is the best medical laboratory scientist in the city. She reads the dead for a living. Her own blood is the one sample she can't let anyone run.
She's built a life on control — a careful monster who kills clean, feeds quiet, and answers to no hunger she'll name aloud. Then a syndicate begins harvesting her kind for the marrow that keeps the rich forever young, and the only surgeon who can see what she truly is turns out to be the one person she cannot afford to love.
Surgical body horror, ancient appetite, and the terrible arithmetic of love — a folk-horror descent through Filipino aswang legend. First in a trilogy.
I'm a working clinical laboratory scientist, so the medical detail is accurate. Sometimes uncomfortably so.
⚠️ Content note: graphic violence and body horror. This is a dark read.
📖 ~60,000 words · EPUB, MOBI, and PDF
📖 A free sample is available before you commit — please read it first and make sure it's for you.
📅 Release date: August 3, 2026
📅 Reviews requested by: August 17, 2026
📚 Copies available: 50
Request a copy here:
https://storyoriginapp.com/reviewcopi...
Goodreads reviews welcome anytime. Amazon reviews can be posted on or after August 3. Honest reviews only — please don't feel any pressure to rate positively.
Thank you! 🖤
— Caspian Ventura