Fallen Thorns by Harvey Oliver Baxter

“A great death is in the air.” Arlo is lost. He thought he had everything figured out. Go to university, fall in love, get a job. But life doesn’t always work like that, and before he has a chance to figure it out, he dies. In the space of a night, Arlo is plunged into a new world of immortality and finds a group of people who swear to always have his back. Dying is never easy, but they promise him eternal safety. But something is after him. Something no one could have ever predicted. He craves to figure out his purpose before he falls into something he can never come back from.

Adult • Mystery, Thriller, and Suspense/Supernatural and Paranormal • Fantasy/Contemporary • Diversity Representation/Neurodiversity/Own Voices • Diversity Representation/LGBTQ+/Own Voices • Horror/Paranormal Creatures

Content Warning: - Frequent depressive and self-deprecating thoughts - Discussions of suicide - Extreme violence, torture, and body-horror gore - Self-inflicted injuries - Sexual harassment (non-graphic) - A fade-to-black sexually intimate scene - Reference to past eating disorders and weight-loss. - Death (on and off page) - Drug overdose (non lethal) - Ignorance to touch aversion - Emesis - Internalised aphobia

Reviewed by tandewrites writer / book blogger on 2025-02-02T20:41:16Z: