Category Archives: fiction
Review: REAMDE by Neal Stephenson
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
Review: Ashland by Dan Simon
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
Review: Dollface by Lindy Ryan
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
Review: Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
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
Review: Killer on the Road/The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A must-have collector’s item for horror fans, comprised of two novellas, The Babysitter Lives and Killer on the Road, from the new master of horror Stephen Graham Jones. The Babysitter Lives When high school senior Charlotte agrees … Continue reading
Review: King Sorrow by Joe Hill
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Arthur Oakes is a reader, a dreamer, and a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters, exceptional library, and beautiful buildings. But his idyll—and burgeoning romance with Gwen Underfoot—is shattered when … Continue reading
Review: Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Milwaukee 1932, the Great Depression going full blast, repeal of Prohibition just around the corner, Al Capone in the federal pen, the private investigation business shifting from labor-management relations to the more domestic kind. … Continue reading
Review: Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy his emotional and physical needs, she has dinner ready for him every night, wears the cute outfits … Continue reading
Review: The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is … Continue reading
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