Genre: Literary Fiction Novella, Magical Realism, Post-apocalyptic. Published: New Directions (US)/ Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) , March 2024 My Rating: 1/5 stars "That was the future. This is now. The end of the world looks exactly the way you remember. Don’t try to picture the apocalypse. Everything is the same." I wanted to love this novella so bad. A magical realism story of an undead woman, tracking across a desolate landscape with a crow living inside her chest, explori

Genre: Science Fiction Published: Mariner Books, November 2025 My Rating: 2/5 stars “I knew that she was right. She would forget me. but perhaps I could make sure of it; even long after she was gone, the world would never forget her.” It took me a while to put my thoughts to paper, as this book gave me the biggest whiplash I’ve experienced in a long time. For the first half or so, it was on a five-star-course. I absolutely loved the ideas this book engaged with, and was hook

Genre: Literary Fiction, Disability/Illness Published: October 2025 My Rating: 2/5 stars ‘I was fearful of disturbing it, like the disorder was some animal that would go berserk if it realised it was confined in the cage of my body.’ One day at work, a young newspaper reporter is suddenly struck with a mysterious pain in her hands that renders her unable to type. A string of doctors offer her a string of diagnoses, ranging from carpal tunnel, to arthritis, to her body’s way o

Genre: Contemporary Fiction with Speculative element Published: ECW-Press, October 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars “If I were to tell someone...

Genre: Literary Fiction, Magical Realism Published: Grove Press, August 2025 My Rating: 5/5 stars ‘Sometimes,’ I said, ‘goodbye isn’t...

Genre: Literary Fiction, Sci-fi/Speculative Fiction Published: Bindery Books, June 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars The Unmapping was one of...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: J onathan Cape, August 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars "The Echoes. His parents thought it was a good name...

Genre: Speculative Fiction Published: Atlantic Press, Augustus 2016 My Rating: 2/5 stars This is one of the weirdest book I have ever...

Genre: Magical Realism, Novella Published: Graywolf Press/Charco Press (EN) & Vleugels (NL), first publication 2020. Rating: 3/5 stars...

Genre: Literary Fiction, Horror Published: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, February 2025 My Rating: 2/5 stars To start off this review, I have to...

Genre: literary fiction Published: Soft Skull Press, November 2024 My Rating: 1.5/5 stars “They say that walking is controlled falling,...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Penguin Press/Fig Tree, March 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It’s...

Genre: dark academia, horror Published: 47North Publishing, January 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars “I was terrified of the possibility: how...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: HarperVia, January 2025 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “Delight in the small things, they say. I don’t know...

Genre: horror novella Translated: Sophie Hughes & Annie McDermott Published: Two Lines Press , May 2024, originally published by...

Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical Published: Riverhead Books, September 2024, Originally published by Wydawnictwo Literackie, 2022....

Genre: Literary Fiction, Eco-fiction Published: W. W. Norton & Company, September 2024 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars “The world was bigger,...

Genre: Horror, Historical Fiction, Frankenstein Retelling Published: Raw Dog Screaming Press, February 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars " Death...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2024 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars rounded up “Try to remember this, I...

Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Simon & Schuster, June 2024 My Rating: 1/5 stars Remember when Ottessa Moshfegh did "unhinged,...