Release: September 22nd, 2015
Where: Kindle My Review of Phantasma

** I received a free copy of this anthology in exchange for a fair and honest review**

Let's get honest here. I'm not a huge science-fiction reader. I read a lot of dystopia or post-apocalyptic fiction. There are a lot of science-fiction elements in those, but when I was in high school, I was a voracious consumer of anything with the Star Wars title on it. As I got older, my tastes evolved a little, and I found myself drawn to vampire lore, and then time travel, and then anything based on Grimm's Fairytales or Alice and Wonderland (The Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor were AMAZING!).

And now here I am, starting over again. The great thing about reading is that you can bounce from one thing to the next. With Phantasma, I found myself intrigued by the short stories. Some of them were creepy as all heck - especially Pitch. A goat-faced boy hunting the Devil? This is where I, in true Valley Girl fashion, utters the words, "I CAN'T EVEN."

I enjoyed the collection, and it was very kind for Roberta Trahan to offer me a free copy of the novel in exchange for a review. Her story is the first in the novel, and I swear I was holding my forehead because the main character's pain felt like my own. Good job! I definitely recommend checking it out. It's available for just a couple of bucks on Kindle!
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