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ClareR (6256 KP) rated Sycorax in Books

Nov 16, 2025 (Updated Nov 16, 2025)  
Sycorax
Sycorax
Nydia Hetherington | 2025 | Fiction & Poetry, Paranormal, Science Fiction/Fantasy
9
9.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
I've seen The Tempest, and so I was interested to see an origin story for Sycorax - the most powerful witch of Algiers. Except she isn't the evil monster that Shakespeare has written about. In this story, she is a child, a girl and a young woman. A young woman who knows too much and is too different to the others in her village, protected by her parents up until the point where they are no longer able to protect her.
I love the way in this is written - it's lyrical with a nod to the style of Shakespeare, Nydia Hetherington gives a reason for Sycorax's differences: her physical difference is due to illness and injury, her witch qualities are due to the fact that she simply knows too much for a woman in a time where women shouldn't have known anything beyond childbirth, motherhood and housework.
And then there's the element of magic that runs throughout the novel - which is always a winner as far as I'm concerned. A really enjoyable novel.
  
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Lindsay (1818 KP) rated Dead Money Run (A Lou Malloy Crime Series #1) in Books

Mar 2, 2026  
Dead Money Run (A Lou Malloy Crime Series #1)
Dead Money Run (A Lou Malloy Crime Series #1)
J. Frank James | 2013 | Crime
7
7.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
We are introduced to Lou. Why is he in prison for something he did? But why did they decide to rob a casino and not return the money to us beyond me?
We seem to get an adventure with many different folks. It starts with wanting to find out who and why his sister was killed.

Why does everyone want the money? Or is it something else that they want?
There seem to be quite a few dead bodies along the way. Someone seems to be cleaning up his messes. Who wants Lou dead? Why do they want the money? Though there seems to be another plot going on, it seems that someone keeps coming after Lou.

That person seems to think he knows this tech or has it or something. Though Lou seems to have found a woman as well, and maybe a little romance come about. What will happen to him and the young woman he first meets?
Will he solve the mystery of how his sister was killed? Why was she killed?
  
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Lyndsey Gollogly (2893 KP) rated The Demonic ( Supernatural Horror book 1) in Books

Apr 9, 2022  
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The Demonic ( Supernatural Horror book 1)
Lee Mountford | 2022
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
Book Rating
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The Demonic ( Supernatural Horror book 1)
By Lee Mountford
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Danni thought she knew fear…

But this house will show her what it is to be truly afraid.

Called back to a childhood home, she must lay to rest a father that made her life hell. But something else waits for her in that house. Something far beyond what she could possibly imagine. Restless spirits and an insidious demon ensure this homecoming is one of nightmares.

Can Danni save her family… and her very soul? To do so, she must face the ghosts of her past as well as an ancient and malevolent evil.

You will love this haunted house novel, because who really needs to sleep at night?


So to get the most out of this book read it during the night in the pitch black! Well that’s what I did 😂 got to admit a few times I actually got seriously spooked and had some crazy dreams! A really good haunting of the demonic. I really enjoy Lee’s books another brilliant British horror writer.