I’m trying to combine these reviews as best I can before the end of the month, and thankfully I have a lot from the same publishers, so that should help with grouping them together.
Thank you to Tor Nightfire for the gifted copies – I’m never disappointed with their horror selection
WHITE LINE FEVER – K.C. Jones (Released March 18th, 2025)
ROSE OF JERICHO – Alex Grecian (Released March 11th, 2025) – Check out my review for book one to this series, RED RABBIT, here!
WHITE LINE FEVER – K.C. Jones (Released March 18th, 2025)
From Bram Stoker Award finalist KC Jones comes White Line Fever, a harrowing thrill ride about friendship, trauma, and learning how to take the wheel of your own life.
At a passing glance, County Road 951 is an entirely unremarkable stretch of blacktop, a two-lane scar across the Cascade foothills of Central Oregon.
But the road is known by another name, coined by those who’ve had to clean up after all those scenic detours went horribly wrong: The Devil’s Driveway.
When Livia and her long-time friends take the Driveway as a shortcut to a much-needed weekend getaway, what begins as a morning joyride quickly becomes anything but. Soon, they’re driving for their lives, pursued by a horror beyond anything they ever imagined.
The Devil’s Driveway might be only 15 miles long, but with danger at every turn, it will take the four women to the very limits of their friendships and their sanity.
And there’s no telling what else lies in wait just beyond the bend.
My Thoughts: 3/5 stars
Who here has done some long road trips? Taken some questionable routes or seen some weird and creepy things? As Midwesterners, we definitely prefer the road trip route when we can, and when you drive straight through the night, you see some strange stuff and people. I will say, I’ve never driven down a haunted road before, at least that I was aware of.
Livia and her lifelong friends are finally going on their long-awaited girls’ trip. While on their way, the GPS shows a detour on some old county road that’ll save them some time, so they figured, “Why not?” I don’t know about you, but we usually try to avoid detours that aren’t clearly marked by the state DoT. Wrong Turn? 2001 Maniacs? No, thank you!
Little do they know, this quick scenic 15 mile stretch has a nickname from the locals – a road with a bloody and haunted history – known as The Devil’s Driveway. Our main storyline follows Livia and her friends as they unknowingly take their journey down The Devil’s Driveway, and are not prepared for the horrors they’ll encounter, but we also have a group of streamers, knowing exactly what they’re driving into (but that won’t prepare them for what will happen).
If you like some claustrophobic horror, then I don’t know what could be better than being trapped in a car on a terrifying road. This is a slower start, but the build-up gets intense, and I couldn’t stop. If ghosts, demons, and emotional and psychological horror are your jam, then I think you’ll really enjoy this! I didn’t think road trip would be a subgenre of horror, but i need more of it, like ASAP. Now, I need to watch Wrong Turn again
ROSE OF JERICHO – Alex Grecian (Released March 11th, 2025)
From the New York Times bestselling author of Red Rabbit comes a supernatural horror where ghosts and ghouls are the least of a witch’s problems in historical New England.
Not all is as it seems in the small village of Ascension, Massachusetts. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all.
The dead are not dying.When Rabbit and Sadie Grace accompany their friend Rose to Ascension to help take care of her ailing cousin, they immediately notice that their new house, Bethany Hall, is occupied by dozens of ghosts. And there’s something in the attic that neither want to investigate.
New England in the 1880s is notoriously unwelcoming to the weird, and the villagers are wary of their visitors. As the three women attempt to find out what’s happening in the town, they must be careful not to be found out. But a much larger—and dangerous—force is galloping straight for them…
My Thoughts: 5/5 stars
This is a hard one to review for the simple fact that it is a sequel, and I 100% recommend that you pick up Red Rabbit. This one takes place about a decade after the events of book one, and we’re back with some of our beloved characters that survived last time.
While I feel like this could be a self-contained story and read on its own, I think you’ll appreciate the characters more if you have the background. This is packed with horror, and Death is returning – something is very wrong in the town of Ascension, and there’s not a lot of time to get to the bottom of things.
As with Red Rabbit, we have the supernatural, historical, western horror mashup you never knew you needed. Yes, we have some scares and PLENTY of dead people – that just don’t seem to want to stay that way – but there are also moments with some humor to balance it all out. If you’re like me and are sick of zombie movies and books, no worries, these stubborn dying townsfolk aren’t just zombies, and it’s not your average walking dead story.
Bloody, violent, exciting, witchy, suspenseful, some cosmic elements, ghosts, angels/demons, and characters you become attached to, made for a fun read and I’m hoping we get more from these characters in the future.
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