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Review: The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
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
Review: The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
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
Review: Ring Shout by P. Djéli Clark
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
Review: Beyond the Planet of the Vampires
Buy it here: Indie Pubs, Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: A speculative avant-garde queer horror novel that reads like an erotic vampiric nightmare directed by Jodorowsky playing at a ’50s drive-in. Beyond the Planet of the Vampires is a gay pulp horror novel … Continue reading
Review: Never Flinch by Stephen King
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From master storyteller Stephen King comes an extraordinary new novel with intertwining storylines—one about a killer on a diabolical revenge mission, and another about a vigilante targeting a feminist celebrity speaker—featuring the beloved Holly … Continue reading
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: Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Travis is Death in the modern world. He wears jeans and a T-shirt and lives in a small, grey town. His job is to offer people comfort in their final hours of life. He’s … Continue reading
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