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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: United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan’s conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons – … 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
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
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: The Vampire of Plainfield by Kristopher Rufty
Synopsis: Plainfield, Wisconsin. 1954. Robbing graves to appease his malevolent desires, Ed Gein inadvertently sets loose an ancient vampire on the unsuspecting town of Plainfield. As the number of missing persons rises, Ed realizes the vampire’s ultimate plan has been … Continue reading
Review: > rekt by Alex Gonzalez
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, Alex Gonzalez’s rekt traces a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here. > be me, 26> about to … Continue reading
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