Verdict in a vialSarah Penner’s debut arrives with an irresistible hook: a clandestine shop in 1791 London that supplies poisons to women who have been wronged, bound by two rules and a ledger of names that could topple reputations. On paper, it […]
Some stories do not need hundreds of pages to change you. The Six Deaths of the Saint by Alix E. Harrow is one of those rare, exquisite tales that condense a universe of emotion, tragedy, and revelation into a mere thirty pages. […]
T. Kingfisher returns with another gripping entry in the Sworn Soldier series, and this time, the horrors lurk not in a haunted manor or a misty forest, but deep within the belly of an abandoned coal mine in West Virginia. What Stalks […]
Joe Abercrombie cracks open a new sandbox with The Devils, an irreverent, blood-slick epic that trades the familiar First Law world for an alternate medieval Europe where popes are queens, Troy won its war, Carthage outmuscled Rome, and elves are not ethereal […]
Mia McKenzie’s These Heathens is a vibrant, emotionally charged, and deeply human story that captures how one weekend can alter the course of a life forever. Set in 1960 Georgia, this novel unfolds through the eyes of seventeen-year-old Doris Steele, a small-town […]
Book Review: To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara – A Grand, Ambitious, and Uneven Meditation on Humanity
Hanya Yanagihara’s To Paradise is a sprawling, audacious literary project that attempts to capture the evolution of love, loss, and the search for utopia across three centuries of alternate Americas. Following the international acclaim of A Little Life, Yanagihara returns with a […]
Cassandra Clare’s Chain of Iron turns the screw on every promise set up in Chain of Gold. The result is a sweeping YA fantasy that mixes Edwardian glamour with murder mystery, star-crossed romance, and the kind of found family dynamics that make […]
In Clear, Carys Davies crafts a hauntingly beautiful story set against the stark, wind-lashed backdrop of 1843 Scotland. With her signature precision and poetic restraint, she captures the loneliness of the human soul and the fragile threads of connection that can bridge […]
Shelley Parker-Chan’s She Who Became the Sun is a fierce, lyrical reimagining of the rise of the Ming dynasty’s founding emperor, told through the eyes of a nameless peasant girl who claims her dead brother’s fate. Marketed to fans of Mulan and […]
In The Once and Future Witches, Alix E. Harrow takes readers back to 1893 New Salem, where witches are no more than whispers and nursery rhymes. Yet beneath the polished veneer of progress, three estranged sisters are about to rewrite history. With […]