Dread Rating: 1 Skull

Cynosura 99: The Altered Planes Book One 
by Sam Weiss 

“The night the moon bleeds is the night the world will end. There’s death in the moon. And the moon is you.”
 

“The night the moon bleeds is the night the world will end. There’s death in the moon. And the moon is you.”
Atra Hart has spent the last seven years locked away in Vanishing Plains Psychiatric Hospital. In that time, her shadow has transformed into its own entity and is growing stronger by the day, threatening to devour her mind. She calls that shadow Dread, and only her missing father knows what it is.

When a fire breaks out at the asylum, Atra makes her way to freedom just in time to see an electric-purple rift sunder the sky. Like Dread, the rift is only visible to her.

Atra’s already loose grip on reality unravels when she learns the rift is a gateway to the world of the dead. And the Queen, an ancient evil lurking on its fringes, wants Dread for her own.

Even worse, Atra can’t tell if any of this is really happening. She might have escaped one asylum, but the closer she gets to unearthing answers about Dread, why her father knows it’s there, and its role in the Queen’s plans, the more she risks getting trapped inside her own mind forever.

Maybe some truths are meant to stay buried.

Robin's Review: Cynosura 99: The Altered Planes Book One by Sam Weiss is a unique dark fantasy/horror book.
It centers around Atra, Tom, and Ophelia, whose stories eventually tie together while they uncover secrets about the rift in the sky.

Atra battles her shadowy being (Dread) which has a life of its own, Tom is running from his past, and Ophelia helps battered women while battling her own dark compulsions.

There are twists and turns that capture readers' interest and leave them wanting to know more. It has elements of science fiction and supernatural horror that make it an intriguing read for fans of either genre.

Intriguing

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