Book Review: The Window by Glenn Rolfe

The Window 

by Glenn Rolfe

September 28, 2018
Publisher: Glenn Rolfe
ASIN: B07F8658R7

ISBN: 9781726673716
What kind of demons await you tonight?

For Richie, life's constant cheap shots are adding up. When he finds something is watching him, he never dreamed that it would show him everything he ever wanted.

When his son, James, comes to stay for the last month of summer, the changes in his father's behavior come to the forefront. What is his father doing staring into the window in the middle of the night?

Was the fiery spark in the dark real? Or is James's imagination getting the best of him?

Summer's almost over.
And life is about to change.
Will James be able to save his father? Or is it already too late?

The Window holds the answers...and the key.

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James visits his father, Ritchie, back in the town James was born in. James spends a few days with old friends and girlfriend. Ritchie is unemployed and growing disgruntled, drinking the nights his girlfriend, Alison, is working. One night he sees images of James and Alison in the trailer’s windows, but both are in actuality, demons. They seduced him into their dark, evil world. James begins to wonder what is happening with his father.

At first, there are some grammar problems and the story doesn’t grab me. Eventually, it snatched my interest and even the grammar got better.

I give The Window 3 sheep.

Pamela Kinney

About the Author:

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"A vital part of this generation." - Brian Keene, author of THE COMPLEX and THE RISING

Glenn Rolfe is an author/singer/songwriter from the haunted woods of New England. He has studied Creative Writing at Southern New Hampshire University, and continues his education in the world of horror by devouring the novels of Stephen King, Ronald Malfi, Jack Ketchum, and many others. He and his wife, Meghan, have three children, Ruby, Ramona, and Axl. He is grateful to be loved despite his weirdness.

He is a Splatterpunk Award nominee and the author of Becoming, Blood and Rain, The Haunted Halls, Chasing Ghosts, Abram's Bridge, Things We Fear, and the collections, A Box Full of Monsters, Out of Range, Slush. and Land of Bones.

Check out his latest novel, The Window.

He is hard at work on many more. Stay tuned!

List of new and returning TV shows for Winter 2019 along with canceled and last season list

Here are some of the new and returning shows for Winter 2019. Also a list of canceled and shows ending this season.

I combed multiple sites looking for as up-to-date info I could find. I only included shows I thought most our readers would want info for.

Jan 1 Tue

A Series of Unfortunate Events 12:00am (Netflix)

Jan 2 Wed

The Masked Singer 9:00pm (Fox)

Jan 3 Thu

The Titan Games 8:00pm (Fox)
Gotham 8:00pm (Fox)
The Blacklist 10:00pm (NBC)

Jan 6 Sun

76th Golden Globe Awards 8:00pm (NBC)
America's Got Talent: The Champions 8:00pm (NBC)

Jan 8 Tue

Ellen's Game of Games 8:00pm (NBC)

Jan 9 Wed

Schooled 8:30pm (ABC)
You’re the Worst 10:00pm (FXX)

Jan 10 Thu

Brooklyn Nine-Nine 9:00pm (NBC)
Fam 09:30pm (CBS)

Jan 11 Fri

Friends from College 12:00am (Netflix)

Jan 14 Mon

The Passage 9:00pm (Fox)

Jan 15 Tue

Roswell, New Mexico 9:00pm (The CW)
Drunk History 10:00pm (Comedy Central)

Jan 16 Wed

Deadly Class 10:00pm (Syfy)

Jan 17 Thu

Star Trek: Discovery (CBS All Access)
A Discovery of Witches 9:00am (Sundance Now)

Jan 23 Wed

The Magicians 9:00pm (Syfy)
Suits 10:00pm (USA)

Jan 28 Mon

I am the Night 9:00pm (TNT)

Feb 12 Tue

Miracle Workers 10:30pm (TBS)

Feb 15 Fri

The Umbrella Academy 12:00am (Netflix)

Feb 25 Mon

Shadowhunters 12:00am (Freeform)

Feb 27 Wed

Whiskey Cavalier 10:00pm (ABC)

Mar 10 Sun

American Gods 12:00am (Starz)

April 5 Fri

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina 12:00am (Netflix)

April (no dates yet)

Game of Thrones (HBO)
The Enemy Within (NBC)
In the Dark (The CW)
The InBetween (NBC)
The Gilded Age (NBC)
The Village (NBC)
Abby's (NBC)

CANCELED (last season/canceled)

Elementary (CBS) 

12 Monkeys (SYFY) 

A Series of Unfortunate Events (Netflix) 

House of Cards (Netflix)

Game of Thrones (HBO) 

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (The CW) 

iZombie (The CW) 

Jane the Virgin (The CW)

Gotham (FOX) 

Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) 

Mr. Robot (USA) 

The Big Bang Theory (CBS)

Shadowhunters (freeform)

Z Nation (Syfy) 

Marlon (NBC)

Midnight, Texas. (NBC) 

Marvel's Daredevil (Netflix) 

Two (ABC) 

Salvation (CBS) 

The Good Cop (Netflix) 

Reverie (NBC) 

Good Behavior (TNT) 

American Vandal (Netflix) 

Marvel's Luke Cage (Netflix)

Marvel's Iron Fist (Netflix)

The Royals (E!) 

Shooter (USA) 

Ghosted (Fox)

Book Review: Final Shadows (A Bishop Files Novel Book 3) by Kay Hooper

Final Shadows (A Bishop Files Novel Book 3)

by Kay Hooper
December 31, 2018
Pages: 336

Publisher: Berkley
A desperate underground war with the survival of millions at stake looms in the electrifying conclusion of the New York Times bestselling Bishop Files Trilogy.

Tasha Solomon's world turned upside-down when the psychic abilities she had tried so hard to live with in secret suddenly made her a target stalked by unseen enemies.

John Brodie is by nature, by training, and by instinct a Guardian. He is a member of an intricate and secretive network of individuals who have devoted their lives to the deadly struggle of saving psychics in danger of being taken or being killed. It is a war very few other people even know exists, and yet its tentacles stretch deeply and dangerously into every aspect of society.

Tasha has abilities not even she is aware of, abilities that the other side would give virtually all they possess to destroy. And if being hunted like an animal were not bad enough she has to learn how to become a warrior in a battle she did not choose, to save people she does not know, and possibly even the very world around her.

If John Brodie can keep her alive long enough.

Final Shadows brings to a close the Bishop Files trilogy by Kay Hooper. A network of people with psychic abilities must work together to end the war between those Bishop has sworn to protect and the factions. The horrors of the factions must be stopped at all costs, and Murphy is more than willing to pull out all the stops to make sure this war ends once and for all.

Murphy is an interesting character that is shrouded in mystery. A few questions about her are answered but really all that does is create more questions. A future series that focuses on Murphy’s past, present and future would make a superb addition Hooper’s books. Duran is the other character that needs to be explored further. He’s one that you want to hate but aren’t so sure that you should. His unanswered questions are by far the most intriguing.

This final book was one of the best I have read by Hooper. The underlying secrets that are brought to light and even the questions that are still unanswered made this a truly interesting read. It will open your mind to endless possibilities and what I hope is not the end of some fantastic characters.

Review: A Deadly Web (A Bishop Files Novel Book 2)


Getting 5 sheep

Denise B

About the Author:
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Kay Hooper was born in California, in an air force base hospital since her father was stationed there at the time. The family moved back to North Carolina shortly afterward, so she was raised and went to school there.

The oldest of three children, Kay has a brother two years younger and a sister seven years younger. Her father (now retired) and brother are builders who own a highly respected construction company, and her mother worked for many years in personnel management before becoming Kay's personal assistant, a position she held until her untimely death in March 2002. Kay's sister Linda works as her Business Manager, Events Coordinator, and Regional Publicist.

Kay graduated from East Rutherford High School and attended Isothermal Community College — where she quickly discovered that business classes did not in any way enthrall her. Switching to more involving courses such as history and literature, she also began to concentrate on writing, which had been a longtime interest. Very quickly hooked, she asked for a Christmas typewriter and began seriously working on her first novel. That book, a Regency romance titled Lady Thief, sold to Dell Publishing in 1980. She has since published more than 60 novels and four novellas

Kay is single and lives in a very small town in North Carolina, not far from her father and siblings. Deigning to live with her are a flock of cats (and a couple of dogs!) with various personalities who all like sleeping on manuscripts and whatever research happens to be spread across Kay's desk. Visit Kay's Pets Page for pics!

Kay also fosters cats and kittens for the Community Pet Center, a non-profit rescue organization on whose board she also sits.

Book Review: The Demon Accords Compendium Vol. 2 (Stories from the Demon Accords Universe) by John Conroe

The Demon Accords Compendium Vol. 2 (Stories from the Demon Accords Universe)
by John Conroe
May 13, 2018
Pages: 77
Volume 2. Four more stories set in Amazon bestselling author John Conroe's Demon Accords universe: the mind of a mind reader, babysitting the supernatural, packing up, and what's it like to be a queen. More fun for fans of the Accords with set up for the series story arc.

In volume 2 of The Demon Accords Compendium back stories continue for the demon accords universe.

It starts out with Lost Souls, which features Nika, the resident telepath who follows a man who kidnapped a baby. What she finds is a Vorsook, a very powerful alien who can control the minds of almost anyone. Hoping that she can block the alien from taking over her mind she is in for the fight of her life.

Sitting Pretty follows Toni, as she babysits the twins and tries to take them out for a peaceful walk on a beautiful day. As with most things in the Demidova life, nothing is ever as easy and peaceful as one hopes. The twins powers are still a mystery, but insights begin to emerge in this exciting tale.

Pack is All takes place right before Sitting Pretty and takes place between the New York Pack Alpha’s and Declan, who much to the alpha’s dismay has slighted them and the pack by interfering in pack business. Declan, however, feels that as Stacia’s mate he has the right under pack to law to use all resources at his disposal to protect his mate and any family they have down the road. This is a pivotal point for Declan, Statia and Holly and where they may go in the future.

Finally, the compendium finishes up with Queen of the Night which is done from Tanya’s point of view and a trip to Orlando and Disneyland. A demon portal is found in Orlando and needs to be closed. Chris plans a trip to Disneyland for the entire crew to check out the portal and hopefully close it. A glimpse of what we might expect in the Conroe’s next demon accords book is seen here.

Getting 5 sheep

Denise B

About the Author:
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Conroe wrote his first readable novel, God Touched, right after finishing his daughter's copy of Twilight and muttering: "Vampires don't farging sparkle!"

With seven more books in the series and a stand alone novel (Black Frost), he doesn't seem to be slowing down. He cut his reading teeth on the likes of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, JRR Tolkien, Robert Heinlein, Andre Norton, and H. Beam Piper.

Financial professional by day and author by night (actually by morning), he bangs out his stories with fingers that are usually sore from forge burns or getting beat up at the dojo.

Book Review: The Demon Accords Compendium (Stories from the Demon Accords Universe) by John Conroe

The Demon Accords Compendium (Stories from the Demon Accords Universe)

by John Conroe
April 29, 2018
Pages: 131
Now in an exciting group of stories from the Amazon bestselling Demon Accords series find out how it all started - from another pair of eyes. How to raise a God Touched exorcist. Extracurricular college fun. What do you get the vampire who has everything - excitement. Four stories from the Demon Accords Universe starring some favorite characters and introducing a new one. Novella length fun.

Conroe has put together the first volume of stories that give you a glimpse into the demon accords universe from another perspective.

The first story gives Lydia’s insight into Chris and Tanya meeting for the first time. It was fun to see it from her side of things not to mention it’s always nice to revisit the beginning of this love story.

The second story is the story of Chris from his grandfather’s eyes when he was about 15 years old. Chris and Alex get called in to search and rescue a couple of fishermen who have gone missing. The insight into what Alex feels for Chris and how Chris handles demon hunting close to when it all started for him was a story worth including in this book.

The third story gives us a glimpse into the werewolf pack. Keitan is accompanying a friend camping and one of the guys with them is giving off a very strange vibe. Quick thinking maybe the only way the group survives the night.

Finally, the compendium finishes up with a few character favorites. Arkady is bored and decides to mess with Declan only to find that Lydia is not at all impressed. These leads Arkady to question his honor and purpose on this earth.

Getting 5 sheep

Denise B

About the Author:
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Conroe wrote his first readable novel, God Touched, right after finishing his daughter's copy of Twilight and muttering: "Vampires don't farging sparkle!"

With seven more books in the series and a stand alone novel (Black Frost), he doesn't seem to be slowing down. He cut his reading teeth on the likes of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, JRR Tolkien, Robert Heinlein, Andre Norton, and H. Beam Piper.

Financial professional by day and author by night (actually by morning), he bangs out his stories with fingers that are usually sore from forge burns or getting beat up at the dojo.