Synopsis: When April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the night, they escape with their two young children and the quiet knowledge that the fire is not the only thing threatening their family. They retreat to April’s childhood home in Dallas, where her spirited parents and siblings provide both comfort and complication. As […]
Fiction
Review: The Island at the Edge of Night by Lucy Strange
Synopsis From award winning author Lucy Strange, The Island at the Edge of Night is a dark, suspenseful mystery set on an island where science and magic blur and danger and secrets unfold. Faye Fitzgerald does not remember what she’s done to land herself at the Auk Island School. She remembers so little about the night that […]
Review: Mister Magic by Kiersten White
Synopsis NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Who is Mister Magic? Former child stars reunite to uncover the tragedy that ended their show—and discover the secret of its enigmatic host—in this “skin-crawling story of pop culture fandom and ‘90s nostalgia” (Melissa Albert, author of The Hazel Woods) from the author of Hide. “[A] propulsive, exciting, often genuinely scary, endlessly compelling mystery.”—Terry Miles, […]
The Eye of Leviathan by M.A Carrick
From the author of The Mask of Mirrors comes a sweeping adventure set in a world where fae secretly walk amongst those who seek to persecute them. In an alternate Spanish Golden Age, the Council of the Sea Beyond has risen to unrivalled power, exploiting the Otherworld’s most precious resources for their own gain. Estevan […]
Review: The Erstwhile Tyler Kyle by Steve Hugh Westenra
Synopsis Tyler Kyle doesn’t believe in monsters. A washed-up thirty-year-old actor and reluctant cryptid investigator, Tyler is used to playing the Scully to his best friend Josh’s Mulder on their stupidly popular YouTube channel. But when Tyler receives previously unseen footage of the B movie bombshell mother who abandoned him eighteen years ago—footage linked to […]
Review: The Legend of Uh (The Legend of Uh #1) by Aaron N. Hall
Synopsis Sir Dashing Junior was only knighted because they couldn’t knight his father twice. Now he’s determined to prove he’s worthy of his new title. With an aspiring ranger, an awkward friar, and a book-loving orc, DJ will venture across the territory of Uh to reach the Amulet of the Goddess, proving that he’s truly […]
Review: Reflections of Lilje Damselfly (Folk with a Disregard for Convention #1) by Natalie Kelda
Synopsis: When a mysterious ailment refuses to leave water nymph Lilje, her father sends her to a human spa retreat. Lilje quickly discovers she has a lot to learn about human nature and culture when she accidentally scandalises the Edwardian spa guests by showing up undressed. In hope of relieving her chronic pain and fatigue, […]
Review: Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
Synopsis: Eighty-one-year-old Elsie Fitzpatrick lives a quiet life in the suburbs. Aside from being a curmudgeon who minds everyone else’s business, few would suspect Elsie harbours a secret she’s worked hard to bury. Because when it comes to murder, no one ever suspects little girls or old ladies. And Elsie Mabel Fitzpatrick – once a […]
Review: Unapologetic Love Story by Elle McNicoll
Oh I completely and utterly loved this. In all honesty I didn’t really expect to, I went in thinking that it would be a fun romance I’d enjoy but I didn’t expect to love it so much.
Charms Charts And Conspiracies ( Gretons Marvellous Maps Book 2) by David Green.
Synopsis Greton of Willow returns in this sequel to the cozy fantasy neurodivergent sensation, ‘Magic, Maps, and Mischief’, a perfect read for lovers of ‘Legends and Lattes’, ‘The Teller of Small Fortunes’, and ‘Under The Whispering Door’. Within the idyllic city of Barrow’s Hill, the elderly, autistic map maker Greton of Willow is living his […]
Review – Stray Cat Strut (Stray Cat Strut #1) by Ravensdagger
Synopsis In the year 2057, the world has become a corporate-run utopia for the super-rich, and a hellhole for all the rest. Catherine “Cat” Leblanc is an orphan that is about as far from super-rich as one can be. When the Incursion alarms start blaring and the sky starts raining hungry xenos, it’s just another […]
Review: Palaces of the Crow by Ray Nayler
Synopsis: In Ray Nayler’s speculative novel of the recent past, four young teens caught between Nazis and the Red Army survive winter in the woods with the help of a flock of highly intelligent crows with a magnificent secret of their own to protect Neriya, a young Jewish girl who dreams of becoming a biologist, […]