THE FICTIONFOX

October Releases The Leaving Room - Amber McBride Synopsis: Gospel is the Keeper of the Leaving Room—a place all young people must phase through when they die. The young are never ready to leave; they need a moment to remember and a Keeper to help their wispy souls along. Gospel assumes that there are countless other Leaving Rooms because many children pass, but she suspects they are not like her Leaving Room which is small (like a walk in closet)with shelves full of tiny jar

The start of April brings Q1 of my reading-year to a close, making it time for a little check-in. My quarterly wrap-ups have taken many...

My top 25 priority reads for the new year

2024 has been a great reading-year for me. So much so that, rather than giving a shout out to some honourable mentions here, there’s a...

2024 has been a fantastic year for me, both on the pages of the books I read, as well as in my actual real-life. It’s been a year of...

Despite feeling like an overall good reading year, 2024 still brought some duds my way. There’s a strange katharsis in spilling a...

My 5-part Year-In-Review Series has become a treasured staple for me to wrap up my year ever since the dawn of this blog. Usually the...

I’m switching things up a little bit this year, and kicking off my year in review looking forward rather than back . One of my favourite...

2024 was the year where I fully embraced my novella-era, learning to appreciate the art and power of shorter books instead of only the...

July Releases The Bewitching - Silvia Moreno Garcia Synopsis: Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this...

I vividly remember my final read of Q2, as I rushed to push it into my mid-year-wrap up as one of my favourites only a day after...

The first half of 2024 brought some absolute gems, but the second has potential to be just as great when it comes to new releases. Here...

With July almost upon us, we’ve reached the mid-year point, which means it’s time for my Mid-year check-in. What once started as a...

For quite some time, magical realism was my most read genre, so there wasn’t a lack of titles to choose from when it came to selecting my favourites. Magical realism has a long history as a genre, and elements of it are often combined with different genre-elements like horror, science-fiction, romance or even autobiographical writing. Bellow you’ll find my running Top-20 favourites, as well as a handful of honourable mentions. For your ease of navigation, I’ve divided them in

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, so it was high time I did some catching up. You’re likely familiar with the format: “if...

It’s no secret that I’m an avid lover of children’s books, even as an adult, and I truly believe that reading together with your kids can be such a powerful tool of connection. Even if you don’t have any kids or teens in your life, these books still hold plenty of value and depth for adult to enjoy them too. Consider these my top 10 favourite middle-grade- and Young Adult novels respectively, as well as some honourable mentions. You will notice some themes (specifically disab

Young Adult (ages 14-19 approximately) We Are Okay – Nina Lacour See also: Watch Over Me by the same author Genre: contemporary, LGBTQ+, grief Although I said these were in no particular order; this one is the exception. We Are Okay truly is my favourite young adult novel, and for sure within my top 5 of books period. You go through life thinking there’s so much you need… Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn’t spoken to

I find it difficult to name a single particular genre to be my "favourite" above the rest, but if you forced my hand, I think I might just go with sci-fi/speculative as of this moment. Not a surprise therefore that this list contains a bunch of my all-time favourite novels. Considering how broad of a genre science fiction is; from hard space-sci-fi to literary speculative; I hope there's something for every type of reader on this list, and I hope to help you find at least one

The first three months of 2024 are already behind us, and I’m happy to report that I’ve had an incredible time reading-wise. In fact,...

Genre: Literary, Contemporary Fiction Published: Avid Readers Press, March 2024 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “We have arrived at a paradox. To...