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Review: Crash by J.G. Ballard
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In Ballard’s hallucinatory novel, the car provides the hellish tableau in which Vaughan, a “TV scientist” turned “nightmare angel of the highways,” experiments with erotic atrocities among auto crash victims, each more sinister than … Continue reading
Review: Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
Buy it here: Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: Hungerstone is a thrillingly seductive sapphic romance for fans of S.T. Gibson’s A Dowry of Blood and Emilia Hart’s Weyward. For what do you hunger, Lenore?Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their … Continue reading
Review: Death in the Downline by Maria Abrams
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: It’s multi-level murder in this darkly funny mystery novel about the glamorous world of MLM “huns”—and the dangerous secrets at the top of the pyramid. Drew thought she was destined to rise above her … Continue reading
Review: Playworld by Adam Ross
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut (“A brilliant, powerful, and … Continue reading
Review Dogs & Wolves by Herve Le Corre
Buy it here: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: When Franck gets out after five years in jail, he expects to find the brother he protected with his silence. Instead, waiting for him is his brother Fabien’s girlfriend. Jessica takes him to the gloomy country … Continue reading
Review: Coup de Grace by Sofia Ajram
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A mindbending and visceral experimental horror about a young man trapped in an infinite Montreal subway station, perfect for readers of Mark Z. Danielewski and Susanna Clarke. Vicken has a plan: throw himself into … Continue reading
Review: Shock Induction by Chuck Palahniuk
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark, satirical parable about a string of mysterious high school disappearances, the seedy underbellies of billionaires, and the tough choices we make in the face … Continue reading
Review: Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: In this exquisite speculative novel set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as … Continue reading
Review: Authority (Southern Reach #2) by Jeff VanderMeer
Buy it here: Amazon Bookshop Synopsis: The bone-chilling, hair-raising second installment of the Southern Reach Trilogy After thirty years, the only human engagement with Area X—a seemingly malevolent landscape surrounded by an invisible border and mysteriously wiped clean of all … Continue reading
Review: Sacrificial Animals by Kailee Pedersen
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Inspired by Kailee Pedersen’s own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up on a farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology. The … Continue reading
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