From O. Henry Award winner and two-time Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa comes a revelatory novel about loneliness, love, labor, and class, an intimate and sharply written book following a nail salon owner as she toils away for the privileged clients who don’t even know her true name. “I live in a world of Susans. I…
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A Murder in Marylebone by Emily Sullivan: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Kensington Books for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! After over a decade away, widowed mother of two Minnie Harper has left sunny Greece and returned to her native England at the turn of the 20th century—just as a cloud of suspicion…
Daughter of Crows by Mark Lawrence: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! The survivor of a brutal academy must exhume her own past in the first book in a new series from the international bestselling author of the Library Trilogy and the Broken Empire…
Operation Bounce House by Matt Dinniman: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing Group for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! A man must fight for his planet against impossible odds when gamers from Earth attempt to remotely annihilate it in this epic, fast-paced novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the smash-hit Dungeon…
Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Orbit Books for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! From World Fantasy Award-winning author K.J. Parker comes a devilishly clever tale of murder, intrigue, and existential crisis. Not even the Church of the Invincible Sun is invincible – and somebody has to…
How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jessie Sylva: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Orbit Books for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! What if cottagecore and goblincore fell in love? When a halfling, Pansy, and a goblin, Ren, each think they’ve inherited the same cottage, they make a bargain: they’ll live in the house together…
City of Others by Jared Poon: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Orbit Books for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! Dive into a world where magic lies hidden just below the surface in this charming urban fantasy full of workplace found family, queer romance, and supernatural creatures straight out of Southeast Asian lore,…
Arc Book Review: Hard Reset by Jonathan Yanez
Thank you to NetGalley and Blackstone Publishing for providing me with an eARC of this book! Hard Reset is a fast-paced, unpredictable, and clever take on the LitRPG genre, blending beloved sci-fi and apocalyptic themes to create an intricate new reality. In this world, life begins in a coffin, cars float, a good ray gun is…
