A review by cassieyorke
Those We Left Behind and Other Sacrifices by Brandon Applegate

5.0

Brandon Applegate found me, alone and arrogant in the woods, and taught me that horror really can bite.

He honored me by inviting me to beta read Those We Left Behind and give a bit of humble insight on the way to publication. I was treated to worlds of horrific sorcery, where things devour you in dreams and emerge into the waking world to gorge themselves on everything you love, and where embittered children conspire with evil fey to inflict unimaginable horrors upon hapless parents. Open and you will lose your way in oppressive forests of beauty and terror, in choking dreams, in wretched worlds where "family" means inescapable peril.

And if you're sure you're the same person after you come out, then you'll be left with the most frightening question of all - are *you* the monster?