FallenFiction

A former personal tumblr turned back-up writing account for author Samantha Mayotte, in case Twitter shits the bed. I post writing stuff, book reviews, and will probably be using this more often to keep people up to date on writing-type endeavors I'm going through. Also, keep your eye out for my novella, Called by Night, coming in 2023!

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[Review] Together We Burn by Isabel Ibañez

[Review] Together We Burn by Isabel Ibañez

This book was such a delight from start to finish. As I’ve said before, I’m an absolute sucker for dragons. I don’t care if they’re the good guys, the bad guys, if they can talk or not. Just gimme the dragons. So of course when I saw there were dragons, I wanted to read it. The description, as usual, sold me. Zarela is an eighteen-year-old who is trying to step out of her mother’s shadow after…

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[Review] Dark Stars Edited by John F.D. Taff

[Review] Dark Stars Edited by John F.D. Taff

Looking at the authors in this book, I knew it was going to be something special the moment I requested it. My instinct on good books is rarely wrong, and this was no exception. Every story in this collection packed a different gut-punch that left me anxious and figuratively gasping for air when I reached the end. Maybe this confession makes me a bad horror fan, but for many of the authors in…

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[Review] Leather and Sage - Taylor Shepeard

[Review] Leather and Sage – Taylor Shepeard

I went into this book knowing nothing about it but the title and the gorgeous cover. I have some mixed feelings on this one. I really enjoyed the premise, the use of witches as a supernatural being was done in a way I haven’t seen before, and I really enjoyed that. Shepeard also has a unique and beautiful way of describing the atmosphere which gave me a vivid, rich picture of the setting and…

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[Review] A Woman Built by Man Edited by S.H. Cooper, Elle Turpitt, Olivia White

[Review] A Woman Built by Man Edited by S.H. Cooper, Elle Turpitt, Olivia White

Words cannot describe how much I enjoyed this anthology. A Woman Built by Man is everything I wanted out of it and so much more. Reading the first story, the first sentence, there was an instant reminiscence to how I felt, the raw emotion, of reading We Are Wolves, a charity anthology that came out last year from Burial Day. While the anthologies do not share a premise or a cause, there is…

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[Review] Sundial by Catriona Ward

[Review] Sundial by Catriona Ward

I’m a sucker for a gorgeous cover. That’s what sold me on Sundial before I even cracked the first page. I don’t mean to gush over it, but the cover is so beautiful and haunting all on its own, I really should have been more prepared for how haunting and beautiful the story within was going to be. The story grabbed me almost immediately, the beautiful writing making it nearly impossible not to…

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[Review] Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester

[Review] Such a Pretty Smile by Kristi DeMeester

It has been a long time since something has grabbed my full attention and held is so firmly in the first page as Such a Pretty Smile did. Hell, the first sentence had me unable to put the book down. I thought I would casually start the book, read a page or two before I went to bed, but when a book starts with “There was blood in the water–a dull pink bloom–the morning Lila Sawyer heard about the…

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[Review] Scales and Sensibility by Stephanie Burgis

[Review] Scales and Sensibility by Stephanie Burgis

I really wanted to take a little break from horror, and I ran into the author of this book tweeting that it was available for request on Netgalley. Seeing nothing but the title and cover, I already had a pretty good idea that it was something I was likely going to be interested in. With a name like ‘Scales and Sensibility’ I was hoping it was going to be a little Austen-esque rom-com, and that’s…

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[Review] Transmuted by Eve Harms

[Review] Transmuted by Eve Harms

Transmuted is #30 in Unnerving Press’ wonderful Rewind or Die series. Eve Harms delivers everything I wanted and more in this book, all while giving me the 80’s horror VHS vibes that the series is so well known for. Isa is a trans video game streamer who has finally raised the funds for FFS (facial feminization surgery). In a turn of events, she has to instead use the money on treatment for her…

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[Review] Be Bold by Anna Goldstein

[Review] Be Bold by Anna Goldstein

When I requested Be Bold from Netgalley, I was looking to branch out from what I ‘normally’ read. Lately I’ve been branching out into reading things to help my mental state. I thought this would be a fantastic addition to that mental arsenal I’ve been building up. I like the bright colors in the book. It really helped pick out these sections and made the subject matter–which has the potential to…

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[Review] The Essential Sick Stuff by Ronald Kelly

[Review] The Essential Sick Stuff by Ronald Kelly

Full disclosure: I skipped the story “Housewarming” because of the spiders, so I’m not judging this story at all nor does it factor into how I feel about the rest of the collection. I didn’t read enough of it to have an opinion on it, I’m just too arachnophobic to not have the first couple pages having my skin scrawling. I’m also not super into half-star ratings, but I think I’m going to round…

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[Review] The Smallest of Bones by Holly Lyn Walrath

[Review] The Smallest of Bones by Holly Lyn Walrath

It’s not much of a secret that I don’t read much poetry. For much of my life, I actively avoided it, actually, thinking it was just old white men lamenting over lost loves or confessing said love to a girl/woman they met once and never saw again. It took a long time for me to realize poetry could be used for so much more than that, and that it could find ways to reach inside and pluck heart…

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[Review] The Tricker-Treater and Other Stories by Briana Morgan

[Review] The Tricker-Treater and Other Stories by Briana Morgan

This is a powerful collection of stories from Briana Morgan. The title story, The Tricker-Treater, holds a place in my heart as one of my favorites in the collection, from its well-spoken monster to the very idea of terror it breeds, it sets the tone for the rest of the collection, snapshots of horror brought to life. I don’t want to go through each story individually, but as with any collection,…

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[Review] Dread Softly by Caryn Larrinaga

[Review] Dread Softly by Caryn Larrinaga

Before diving into Dread Softly, the only other thing I’d read from Caryn Larrinaga was the audio version of her book Hide and Seek. I’d been incredibly impressed with that, so it was easy to want to grab this collection. Every story in this collection is a winner. There isn’t a story inside that was lacking for anything. From the very first story, the author had me flying through pages, barely…

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I’m salty on Twitter today

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OH I’M LIVING FOR THIS FUCKING UNPOPULAR OPINION LET ME TELL YOU

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My loud boy stanning ass at every artist alley until I die.

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Take a Piece of my Heart and Make it all Your Own //EraserMic// (on Wattpad) https://my.w.tt/5WNNU7CicR Some fluffy, some smutty, and some both, here's a collection of one-shots featuring Aizawa Shota and Yamada Hizashi [Eraser Head and Present Mic].

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Writer's Block is Bullshit

New Blogpost! Writer's block is bullshit? Or is it?

So lately, I’ve been listening to The Wicked Library, an intersting and unique horror-story based podcast. If you like horror stories, it’s pretty cool. The stories are pretty good, and for the most part, there’s only one story per episode, unless it’s some sort of special edition. The thing I like most about the podcast is that after the stories, they do a brief interview with the author, where…

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