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Review: Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom
Buy Here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A spirited young Englishwoman, Abitha, arrives at a Puritan colony betrothed to a stranger – only to become quickly widowed when her husband dies under mysterious circumstances. All alone in this pious and patriarchal society, … Continue reading
Review: Hausfrau by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Buy here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: For readers of Claire Messud and Mary Gaitskill comes a striking debut novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning. Hausfrauhaus·frau \haus-frau\ n 1: … Continue reading
Review: Absolute Unit by Nick Kolakowski
Buy here: Crystal Lake Publishing, Amazon Synopsis: Bill is a nobody, a health inspector who’s not above taking a few dollars to overlook a restaurant’s mouse problem, and hated by nearly everyone except his long-suffering girlfriend. His nephew, Trent, isn’t … Continue reading
Review: Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby
Buy at: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a … Continue reading
Review: She Who Rules the Dead by Maria Abrams
Buy it here: Weirdpunk Books, Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Henry has received a message: he needs to sacrifice five people to the demon that’s been talking to him in his nightmares. He already has four, and number five, Claire, is currently … Continue reading
Review: Later by Stephen King
Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an … Continue reading
Review: Extinction Peak by Lucas Mangum
Paperback, 163 pages Published September 22nd 2020 by Madness Heart Press Buy it here: Madness Heart Press, Amazon, Bookshop Synposis: When the raptors come out of sinkholes across the United States, Deandra Antigone Merriweather’s elder brother Johnny sees the chaos as … Continue reading
Review: Seventeen Names for Skin by Roland Blackburn
Published August 31st 2020 by Weirdpunk BooksISBN1951658167 (ISBN13: 9781951658168) Buy it here: Weirdpunk Books, Bookshop, or Amazon Synopsis: After a cancer diagnosis gives her six months to live, Snow Turner does what any introverted body-piercer might: hire a dark-web assassin and take … Continue reading
Review: The Book of X by Sarah Rose Etter
Buy Here: Two Dollar Radio Synopsis: The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk … Continue reading
Review: African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou
Buy here: bookshop Synopsis: Its title recalls Bret Easton Ellis’s infamous book, but while Ellis’s narrator was a blank slate, African Psycho’s protagonist is a quivering mass of lies, neuroses, and relentless internal chatter. Gregoire Nakobomayo, a petty criminal, has decided to … Continue reading
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