Book Reviews & Recommendations
Stuart Turton returns with another brain-teasing, genre-bending puzzle that asks a wicked question: can you solve a murder in time to save the last pocket of humanity? Set on an isolated island protected from a planet-wide, lethal fog, The Last Murder at […]
Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind is a haunting, slow-burning novel that examines what happens when ordinary people are thrust into extraordinary circumstances. Beneath its surface-level suspense lies a sharp and unsettling exploration of race, privilege, class, and human fragility when the […]
What would happen if a nuclear missile were launched toward the United States today, in real life? That haunting question lies at the heart of Annie Jacobsen’s Nuclear War: A Scenario, a pulse-pounding, meticulously researched nonfiction thriller that imagines the unthinkable in […]
Matt Dinniman has done it again. The Eye of the Bedlam Bride, the sixth installment in the wildly addictive Dungeon Crawler Carl series, raises the stakes, deepens the lore, and delivers a blend of chaos and character growth that makes it one […]
Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun arrives with towering expectations. Coming from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, many readers anticipated another masterclass in subtle storytelling, a haunting exploration of humanity, and an […]
Matt Dinniman’s fifth entry in the Dungeon Crawler Carl saga is the series at its boldest. The arena this time is the sixth floor, known as the Hunting Grounds, a lush kill-zone of jungle heat and Jurassic teeth. Outsiders are finally allowed […]
Matt Dinniman’s The Gate of the Feral Gods takes readers deeper into the ever-expanding chaos of the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, and by this point in the saga, the author shows no intention of slowing down. This fifth installment ramps up the […]
If you’ve ever wondered what it would feel like to get trapped inside a video game dungeon, Matt Dinniman’s The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook delivers that experience in a way that is both hilarious and surprisingly heartfelt. This is the fourth book in […]
Matt Dinniman’s Carl’s Doomsday Scenario continues the Dungeon Crawler World series with a surge of chaotic energy, biting humor, and surprisingly poignant moments. Following directly after the explosive first book, this installment raises the stakes while testing just how much absurdity a […]