Category Archives: literary book review
Review: Moderation by Elaine Castillo
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A bold and inventive novel about real romance in the virtual workplace—bringing Castillo’s trademark wit and sharp cultural criticism to an irresistible story about the possible future of love. Girlie Delmundo is the greatest … Continue reading
Review: The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Eric Sanderson wakes up in a house one day with no idea who or where he is. A note instructs him to see a Dr. Randle immediately, who informs him that he is undergoing … Continue reading
Review: I’m Losing You by Bruce Wagner
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: An epic novel that brings together a motley crew of characters, including porn stars in love, celebrity chore-whores, plotting dermatologists, masseurs, and shrinks, among many others cast in the debauchery of Hollywood. I’m Losing … Continue reading
Review: Honey by Imani Thompson
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A wickedly funny, adrenaline-rush of a novel about a graduate student who murders bad men and justifies it in the name of feminism, by a bold new voice in fiction Yrsa is in a … 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 Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, … Continue reading
Review: Saltcrop by Yume Kitasei
Buy it here: Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: From the acclaimed author of The Stardust Grail comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister―and Earth’s environmental salvation. In Earth’s not too distant future, … Continue reading
Vulture by Phoebe Greenwood
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Catch-22 on speed and set in the Middle East, Vulture is a fast-paced, brilliant satire of the war news industry and its moral blind spots. An ambitious young journalist, Sara is sent to cover a war from … Continue reading
Review: Daddy’s Boy by Michael David Wilson
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Wentworth is at his wit’s end. He has no money, his cat’s been kidnapped, and every time he tries to kill himself, he fails. Worst of all, he lives in Kidderminster. But sometimes you’re … Continue reading
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