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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: One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

Posted on April 1, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human. On Oct 25th, after … Continue reading →

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Review: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

Posted on February 21, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady … Continue reading →

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Review: Ashland by Dan Simon

Posted on February 8, 2026 by ghostvillehero

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 →

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Review: Last Tango in Cyberspace by Steven Kotler

Posted on January 31, 2026 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler crafts a near-future thriller about the evolution of empathy. Hard to say when the human species fractured exactly. Harder to say when this new talent arrived. But Lion … Continue reading →

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Review: Honey by Imani Thompson

Posted on December 31, 2025 by ghostvillehero

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 →

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Review: Death in the Downline by Maria Abrams

Posted on January 14, 2025 by ghostvillehero

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 →

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Review: Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

Posted on July 16, 2024 by ghostvillehero

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author … Continue reading →

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