Bunny's Reviews: Cynosura 99 Review Spotlight

This is a big week for new releases, and we’re thrilled to share this one. Check out Cynosura 99 by author Sam Weiss!

Looking for a book that's going to grab you and keep you page-turning? Well, welcome to Cynosura 99. Mixing dark fantasy with sci-fi horror elements Sam Weiss has created a gem that is to be treasured. After you irreverently devour the book like a starving psycho, of course. Bon appetite!

The first thing that greets you when you see this book is the beautiful purples and shades of blue on a landscape of snow with a bizarre rift hanging in the sky. What does it all mean? Who is the singular character seen walking in the snow? Where are they going? Why are they alone? So many questions, questions that will be answered once you start digging into this book. Still reading this? Okay, let's go deeper, shall we? Follow me...

The first character you get introduced to? Atra. She's been locked away in a mental institution. Why? Well, she has a "little friend." Her shadow...named Dread. Does Dread make an immediate appearance? No, but Dread will show sooner rather than later. How long will Atra be in this facility? Well, let's just say...certain events are going to arise that see her escape its confines. Beware the creepy doctor.

The story shifts and moves to another character. Hello, Tom. What secrets are you hiding? Hmmmm? Seems like Tom has something in his past that is looking to come back and take a bite out of his present. Who is this mysterious person? What do they want with him? How do they know so much about him? Now, add in the mysterious character that Tom saw while driving home...cue freak out (for him, of course). For us, it's darkly delicious.

The deeper you go into Cynosura 99 the better the story gets. The more twisted it becomes and, trust us on this one, the more engaged you're going to become. Grab your eyeballs, because they're going to try to pop out of your head more than once. This book is Thrilling!!!!! You're not going to want to put it down the more you discover about the characters.

As it all comes together and shows you the various threads of connection - that is when this book is really going to shine its brightest. The deeper you go into this book the better it gets and by the end, you are going to be begging for more.

Yeah, so, ummm...when's book two coming out? I need more of this. LOL!

Looking for an absolute page-turner of a novel? Grab. This. Book. Looking for a dark fantasy with some twisted sci-fi horror aspects? Ya know, cuz...Halloween and all that? Then grab this book! Don't miss out! This one is a must-read and you're not going to regret diving into it. At least, that is this particular reader's opinion. So, why not? YOLO! LOL!

5 out of 5 stars

Thank you to the author, Sam Weiss, and R&R Book Tours for the opportunity to read and review this book. I look forward to what comes next!

To the author, Sam Weiss, I volunteer as tribute to dive into book two should you need a reviewer. LOL!

Stranger Things meets Donnie Darko

Cynosura 99 (The Altered Planes #1)

Publication Date: October 9, 2023

Genre: Dark Fantasy w/ Sci-Fi Horror Elements

“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.

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About the Author

Sam was named after a dog, a fact her mother disputes to this day.

While she’s terrible at writing “About Me’s “, she’s been told she’s great at writing about what fictional people do. The more miserable she can make them, the better. Her love of horror films from the 80s, sci-fi shows from the 90s, and alternative music from the 00s have inspired her to write what she’s calling “Dark Science Fantasy” although she’s kind of making that up as she goes along.

When she’s not ready to pull her hair out after discovering another plot hole she’s created, she goes camping with her husband as far away from society as possible. So far, this tactic has been mostly successful, and she’s only had to physically converse with a grand total of nine people this year. Next year, she hopes to get that number down to six.

Sam Weiss