There are book series you enjoy, and then there are book series that consume you entirely…the kind that leave you staring at a wall after the final page, mourning that you have no more left to read. Beth Brower’s The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion is firmly, devastatingly in the second category. Set in…
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A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! It’s off to the races in the explosive eighth book in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series—featuring bonus material exclusive to this print edition. As chaos and mass panic spread outside the dungeon in…
A Widow’s Charm by Caitlyn Paxson: Book Review
In this witty fantasy romance, a widow attempts to resurrect her dead husband by blackmailing her rakish necromancer neighbor—only to find herself falling for him instead. “Witty, whimsical, and deeply kind, A Widow’s Charm is beyond charming—it’s wholly enchanting.”—Alix E. Harrow, New York Times bestselling author of The Everlasting Lady Hildegarde Croft is accustomed to changes in position. After all,…
Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman: Book Review
Enter a darker age with USA Today bestselling author Christopher Buehlman’s Between Two Fires, a medieval horror adventure unlike anything on the shelf. The beloved BookTok sensation is now coming to Nightfire. And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…”The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found…
Boring Asian Female by Canwen Xu: ARC Book Review
Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! “Thank you for your interest in our school, but we regret to inform you that…” you’re not special. You’re too average. You’re too boring. Well, in that case, she’ll have to show them just how…
Just Watch me By Lior Torenberg: Book Review
Fleabag meets Big Swiss in this bold debut about a charismatic misfit who livestreams her life for seven days and nights to raise money to save her comatose sister—a poignant and darkly funny exploration of grief, forgiveness, and redemption. Dell Danvers is barely keeping it together. She’s behind on rent for her studio apartment (formerly a walk-in closet),…
Sister Svangerd and the Devil You Know: 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! A new epic fantasy novel from World Fantasy Award-winner author K. J. Parker, one of the most original voices in the genre. (Sorry, this is as much description as the publisher has given!…
Pilgrimess by Kara Reynolds: ARC Book Review
Robbie Finch and her found family of fellow lady criminals are weathering tyranny from a theocratic patriarchal rule. Their resistance movement is interrupted when they get word that her niece is in trouble. Disguising themselves as penitents on a religious pilgrimage to a powerful enemy city, the ladies set out on a rescue mission. Along…
The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow: Book Review
Mary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice’s five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices of her own. What if Mary Bennet’s life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized…
Pick a Color by Souvankham Thammavongsa: Book Review
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…
