Synopsis: ‘My name is Natalie Heller Mills, and I was perfect at being alive…’ Natalie lives a traditional lifestyle – and her followers are sick with envy. Her charming farmhouse on her working ranch is artfully cluttered, her husband is a handsome cowboy, her homemade sourdough boules are each more beautiful than the last. So […]
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Review: Crone by Keith Rosson
Summary: Eli Lamp is a broken man. An ex-detective, ex-addict, and long-grieving father whose daughter, Hannah, disappeared a decade before, Eli decimated his old life investigating her abduction and is now indebted to the Crooked Wheel, a local drug gang, as an enforcer. He lives in a rundown trailer at the edge of the woods, […]
Review: The Girl with a Thousand Faces by Sunyi Dean
Synopsis: From the USA Today bestselling author of The Book Eaters comes The Girl with a Thousand Faces, a Gothic tale set in a historical Hong Kong that meshes ancient myths and local legends into a haunting story of ghosts, grief, and women who will not forgive. When Mercy Chan washed up on the shores […]
Review: PolyCorpse by Jarrett Poole
Synopsis No one escapes their Final Obligation. Theo hunts those who try. Within the walled city of DehantaPolis, all souls are destined for incineration. The governing power corporation calls it divine duty. The spiritual call it sacrilege. But one thing is certain: no citizen escapes their Final Obligation. Theo scours the wilderness for those who […]
Review: Mortedan’s Peril (The Trials of Irody Hasp, #1) by R.J Barker
Mortedant’s Peril is an epic historical fantasy of murder, mystery and unlikely alliances from RJ Barker, award-winning author of The Bone Ships. Perfect for fans of Six of Crows and City of Last Chances. ‘An engrossing, ingenious story in a beautifully crafted world’ – Adrian Tchaikovsky Irody can speak to the dead. But the living […]
Review: We Break Immortals by Thomas Howard Riley
Synopsis: A drug addict who hunts sorcerers down by tracking their magick, the most renowned swordsman no one has ever heard of, and a thieving magick-wielding woman hellbent on revenge collide during a last ditch effort to stop an insane superhuman serial killer from making himself a god. The Render Tracers always say magick users […]
Review: Courier by Zoe Rosi
Synopsis Meet Bob, your local courier.You’ve barely noticed him. You’ve barely even looked his way.But he’s noticed you. He’s noticed everything about you.He’s been paying very close attention indeed.And he likes what he sees…You by Caroline Kepnes meets Engleby by Sebastian Faulks in Courier, a gritty psychological thriller novella about loneliness, warped thinking, and the dark side of desire. What […]
Review: The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee
Synopsis: Get ready to be blown away by this searing standalone space opera where corporate samurai fight beneath merciless stars, and death is always a mere breath away. Isako is a legendary swordswoman, but every legend has to come to an end. When her long-time client unexpectedly retires, she plans to follow–to walk out into […]
Review: The Pawns of Havoc (Envoys of Chaos #0.5) by Dave Lawson
Synopsis: No Mercy, No Questions Asked. Cork has quickly made a name for himself among the Kosellan mercenaries, but now his boss has come to him with an unusual job. Cork’s erstwhile countrymen, the Winn, have hired to him to travel into the barren Frozen Lands and destroy a convoy, leaving only one survivor. Cork […]
Review: The Cove by Claire Rose
Synopsis Midsommar meets Fear Street in this modern, sea-soaked folk horror debut about fighting to survive, and fighting to be yourself. Seventeen-year-old Lindsay Weinberg has just gotten kicked out of another prep school, and has consequently found herself shipped to her Uncle Levi’s farm in the cold, isolated town of Marbury, Maine. When Lindsay arrives at a big, old farmhouse […]
Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts by Christopher Cantwell, illustrated by Megan Levens
Synopsis: The doomed Starfleet crew members, the red shirts, must track down spies on an isolated planet in this graphic novel. Stranded on the snow-ridden planet Arkonia 89, the crew of the U.S.S. Warren has a small window in which to pin down spies seeking to steal classified secrets and keep Starfleet data out of […]
Review: Out Law: A Dresden Files Novella by Jim Butcher
Synopsis The past comes back in a big way for Chicago’s only professional wizard in this action-packed novella from the #1 New York Times–bestselling Dresden Files. In a city that’s just beginning to recover from the devastation caused by the Battle of Chicago, Harry Dresden is finally pulling himself together as well. He’s ensconced in […]