Category Archives: fiction
Review: Mothered by Zoje Stage
Buy it here Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A claustrophobic psychological thriller about one woman’s nightmarish spiral while quarantined with her mother. Grace isn’t exactly thrilled when her newly widowed mother, Jackie, asks to move in with her. They’ve never had a … Continue reading
Review: The World and All That It Holds by Aleksandar Hemon
Buy It Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: The World and All That It Holds–in all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory–showcases Aleksandar Hemon’s celebrated talent at its pinnacle. It is a grand, tender, sweeping story that spans decades and continents. As … Continue reading
Review: The Family Game by Catherine Steadman
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A rich, eccentric family. A time-honored tradition. Or a lethal game of survival? One woman finds out what it really takes to join the 1% in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling … Continue reading
Review: Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more. Do you like scary movies?Have you ever … Continue reading
Review: Satin Island by Tom McCarthy
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the author of Remainder (the major feature-film adaption of which will be released in 2015) and C (short-listed for the Booker Prize), and winner of the Windham Campbell Prize, a novel that promises to give us the … Continue reading
Review: Why Read: Selected Writing 2001-2021 by Will Self
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed “the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation” by the Guardian, Will Self’s Why Read is a cornucopia of thoughtful and … Continue reading
Review: Inspection by Josh Malerman
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: J is a student at a school deep in a forest far away from the rest of the world. J is one of only twenty-six students, all of whom think of the school’s enigmatic … Continue reading
Review: Death of a Dancing Queen by Kimberly G. Giarratano
Preorder it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: After her mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, Billie Levine revamped her grandfather’s private investigation firm and set up shop in the corner booth of her favorite North Jersey deli hoping the free pickles and flexible hours … Continue reading
Review: Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In the tradition of modern fairytales like American Gods and Spinning Silver comes a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore–a debut novel about the ancestral hauntings that stalk us, and the uncanny power of story. The Yaga … Continue reading
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