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Hemlock & Silver by T Kingfisher Publishing August 19, 2025 Buy: Kindle | Audio | Special Edition I received a free copy of this audiobook from Macmillan Audio . I am leaving this review voluntarily and all opinions are my own.  I didn’t realize while reading this that it was a twisted unique take on Snow White but now that I’ve read it I can totally see it. Healer Anja is something of an expert in poisons. Now asked by the King to help his daughter Snow who has taken ill – no healers have been able to cure her, and he fears it may be poison – she travels to the desert to see Snow and hopes that she can help. In her studies Anja has been known to drink poison to document the side effects, when she does something similar with a strange apple, she has found Snow eating she finds herself able to travel into mirrors and a shadow world of silver and gray.  This was a great retelling and kept me engaged. I loved Anja’s awkwardness and her busy mind wandering to tangents only t...

  Publication Date:  July 12, 2020 Format:  Kindle Genre:   Horror Publisher:  Tor Nightfire Length:  159 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Audio Synopsis When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all. Review:  A modern retelling of the Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allen Poe.  Roderick and Madeline Usher reside in a crumbling home on lands that are barren and the lake dark and murky.  Madeline...