Category Archives: fiction

Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

Posted on March 4, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood–where … Continue reading →

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Review: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

Posted on February 28, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the … Continue reading →

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Review: Ring Shout by P. Djéli Clark

Posted on February 25, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In America, demons wear white hoods. In 1915, The Birth of a Nation cast a spell across America, swelling the Klan’s ranks and drinking deep from the darkest thoughts of white folk. All across the nation … Continue reading →

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Review: Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

Posted on February 23, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: n his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus … Continue reading →

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Review: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Posted on February 21, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady … Continue reading →

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Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson

Posted on February 11, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Four decades ago, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family, fled to a wild and lonely mountainous corner of British Columbia to avoid the draft. Smuggling backpack loads of high-grade marijuana across … Continue reading →

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Review: Ashland by Dan Simon

Posted on February 8, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Booshop Synopsis: A deeply moving family story unfolding in richly evocative prose and a poetic portrayal of a town in decline during the final decades of the American century, Ashland is a book of metamorphoses—of the dance between … Continue reading →

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Review: Last Tango in Cyberspace by Steven Kotler

Posted on January 31, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler crafts a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy. Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion … Continue reading →

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Review: Dollface by Lindy Ryan

Posted on January 24, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Barbie meets Scream with a 90s nostalgia twist in this horror romp from Bless Your Heart author Lindy Ryan. Horror author Jill has just moved to suburban New Jersey, hoping to fit in with … Continue reading →

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Review: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito

Posted on January 7, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor House prepared to play the perfect Victorian governess. She’ll dutifully tutor her charges, Drusilla and Andrew, tell them bedtime stories, and only joke about eating children. But the longer … Continue reading →

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