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Review: I Met Someone by Bruce Wagner

Posted on April 16, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An emotional thriller by novelist Bruce Wagner, I Met Someone is the story of a fictional Hollywood marriage on the precipice of disaster—and an enthralling meditation on the world in which we live.Bruce Wagner’s I Met Someone is … Continue reading →

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Review: Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder

Posted on April 11, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet’s disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare, from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy … Continue reading →

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Review: Superstars by Ann Scott

Posted on April 8, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: One of the premier French cult novels of the last thirty years, a tender and combative portrait of Paris’s queer rave scene in the 90s — for fans of Virginie Despentes and Gary Indiana. … Continue reading →

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Review: Molka by Monika Kim

Posted on April 3, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: molka (n): the Korean term for spy cameras secretly and illegally installed, often to capture voyeuristic images and videos Dahye can’t believe her luck when she finds herself in a whirlwind romance with handsome, … Continue reading →

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Review: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

Posted on April 1, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human. On Oct 25th, after … Continue reading →

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Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Posted on March 30, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it now Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The Mayan god of death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this one-of-a-kind fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is … Continue reading →

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Review: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor

Posted on March 27, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synospsis: The future of storytelling is here. Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she’s suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle … Continue reading →

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Review: In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Posted on March 23, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc … Continue reading →

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Review: Paradiso 17 by Hannah Lillith Assadi

Posted on March 18, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The intimate, sweeping tale of one man’s restless search for home the world over, as the pendulum of fate swings between loss and life, grief and euphoria, regret and hope All his life, exile … Continue reading →

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Review: Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V Dearborn

Posted on March 16, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The first major biography in more than twenty years of one of America’s greatest writers, based on newly available letters and journals V. S. Pritchett called her “a genius.” Gore Vidal described her as … Continue reading →

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