Book Spotlight Thursday: Inked in Blood and Memory by Allison Ivy

Looking for a book to spotlight this Thursday, I found the soon-to-be-released Inked in Blood and Memory by Allison Ivy. Containing elements of gothic horror, splatterpunk, romance, and fantasy, this book calls to you that it is said to wrap around you, the reader, and never let go. Let’s read on!

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Inked in Blood and Memory

Expected Publication Date: December 3, 2024

Genre: Sapphic Horror

Features
⦁	Eat the rich
⦁	“Family is complicated”
⦁	Sapphic (f/f) romance
⦁	2/5 spice level
⦁	Multi-POV
⦁	Vietnamese FMC
⦁	Plus size FMC
⦁	Mixed race FMC
⦁	FMC who wears glasses
⦁	New Year’s Eve Horror
⦁	Dark Academia
⦁	Estranged friends to lovers
⦁	Grownup "The Pagemaster" vibes

Recluse Sophie Vanguard’s winter cabin retreat turns ominous when blue flowers mysteriously appear. They’re everywhere. On her front porch, in kitchen cabinets, and even on her pillow. It isn’t long before chilling whispers echo in the halls, and her journal repeats seven unsettling entries.

Enter the bloodied and beautifully eccentric Ly Thi Ren. Though Ren seems familiar, Sophie refuses to believe the girl’s insistence that they are trapped inside a book.
In a land of fiction, truth and lies blur together, clear decisions are marred by doubt, and shared family trauma lurks just below the surface.

Can Ren and Sophie make it out alive? Or will they end up nothing more than words inked in blood and memory?

Warnings Contain Possible Triggers Including:

Swearing (Not overboard. Three or four F-words and three or four other words.)
Gore/violence/body horror (not gratuitous and nothing sexual)
one scene of the main character’s drug use (joint)
Brief suicidal ideation
Child endangerment
Self-deprecation in terms of weight (one paragraph).

Inked in Blood and Memory is coming December 3rd, 2024

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Allison Ivy writes under a pen name and grew up reading a book a day. She graduated from Penn State with a B.A. in English and a Creative Writing certificate. She currently lives in Connecticut and listens to far too many show tunes and DVD commentaries. The Dragon and the Double-Edged Sword is her first novel.