Category Archives: Reviews

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: 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: 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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Review: Hunger by Choi Jin-Young

Posted on March 13, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A word-of-mouth phenomenon turned best-selling cult classic in Korea, Hunger is a visceral, psychologically daring novel that reveals how love and money shape, wound, and consume us. “A feast for the literary senses.”—Anton Hur, Judge of the … Continue reading →

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Review: Sisters in Yellow by Mieko Kawakami

Posted on March 11, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: ‘My heart felt very tender reading this. Astonishing Kawakami, as always‘ Frances Cha, author of If I Had Your FaceFrom the International Booker Prize-Shortlisted author of Heaven and Breasts and Eggs. Hana has nothing but she’s hopeful. She’s fifteen … Continue reading →

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