Paul Kelly

A list of things happening in chronological order as told by the closest thing American rock music has to Mr. Peanut Butter.

Shallow, juvenile music; shallow juvenile writer. Avoid.

Review copy provided by St. Martin’s Press

Clive Barker fans, this one’s for you.

Review copy provided by Da Capo Press

Imagine your life, and the people that cycle in and out of it, and back again. Your soul constellation. We all have them, but on the biggest stages with the biggest names of the 1990s, this idea seems grand, mythical, and mysterious.

This memoir helped me turn inward and see my own lives (because there have been several) and loves in the same way. A little bit of self-mythologizing will take you far.

Review copy provided by Tor Books

Around a third of the way into this book, I found myself wondering when something, anything, was going to happen. It wasn’t for another hundred or so pages that I realized that, like Celia, Kindred Cove had been wearing down my defenses since the beginning.

Midsommar, without Ari Aster’s lack of empathy; human and haunting.

Review copy provided by Tor Nightfire

“This would not have happened if your workplace was unionized.”

An efficient, nasty little piece of work, straight from the Sam Raimi buckets-of-blood school of horror.

A great debut.

This book is like listening to your most boring boomer relative recite Wikipedia, but reading it to my 6 year old (who is in full dinosaur mode) was really fun. We all become that boring relative eventually.

Review copy provided by Tor Nightfire

A gory, science-gone-mad easy read that feels like a lost Resident Evil story. Set your expectations appropriately and enjoy.

Review copy provided by Penguin Press

Subtle, patient, sometimes difficult, plain yet beguiling, and unflinchingly dark. Just when (as the book describes it) the “hubris of youth” becomes a little much, the claustrophobia of proximity to a completely unlikable protagonist gives way to another, more mature, creeping dread that knocked me down completely. Honestly, this book is kind of unmissable.

Just awful. Shallowest of shallow characters, no sense of place, over before it begins (thankfully). I would probably have been way into this when I was 14.

A great X-File with some uncomfortably accurate insights into parenthood.

A really wonderful debut novel. The writer understands the power of the unexplained and knows when to leave well enough alone. Highly recommended.

Great pulpy book that goes way off the rails in the final act and ruins it all.