Genre: Historical fantasy, Western Published: Quirk Books, November 2025 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Romantic love was a clear-cut institution, bolstered by orthodoxy and ritual. When a man lost his wife, it was expected that his world would unravel. But friendship… friendship was a wilderness with no guide. There were no courting rituals one might follow to pursue it, and little sympathy for the gut-wrenching horror of its loss.” Who would have thought that I could enjoy a weste

Gerne: Dark Academia, Mystery, Fantasy Published: St. Martin's Press, October 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars "The philosopher and critic Tzvetan Todorov defines the fantastic as the hesitation between the supernatural and a mundane explanation of an occurrence. In a work of fiction, when a woman in the woods sees a monster and turns out to be crazy, then that is realism. If it turns out that there really is a monster in those woods, then that is horror. But if one can make an argu

A reading-blog in which I attempt to beat my readingslump by reading recently released horror-novella's until I find a 5-star...

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: Fantasy Published: Del Rey, January 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars "Life is about finding joy in the space between where you came from...

Genre: Middle-grade fantasy Published: Quirk Books, January 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars The Story: Nick and her mother Theo are traveling...

Genre: Horror Published: Wicked House Publishing, June 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars "Everyone deserves to have someone at their side when...

Genre: Fantasy Published: DAW Publishing, July 2025 My Review: 4.5/5 stars, rounded up because I love Joshua Philip Johnsons creative...

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: Horror Published: Night Shade Books, 2012 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “The deepest cavern in the world is the human heart.” The Croning...

Genre: (cozy) horror Published: ECW Press, September 2025 My rating: 3.5/5 stars I was originally drawn to this novel based on both its...

Genre: Sci-fi Novella Published: Lanternfish Press, May 2025 My Rating: 4/5 stars “…Life permanently fixed in a homage to itself. An...

Genre: Cozy Fiction, Magical Realism Published: Doubleday, September 2024, originally published March 2023 My Rating: 1/5 stars “The...

Genre: Sci-fi, Horror Published: Daphne Press (UK)/ Tor Nightfire (US), May 2025 My Rating: 1/5 stars "We were the weeds of the...

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

Genre : middle-grade, magical realism. Published: Feiwel & Friends, March 2025 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "Surprisingly, it was the pigeons...

Genre: Horror, Supernatural Published: Shortwave Media, April 2025 My Rating: 5/5 stars Fans of Iain Reid’s We Spread will delight in...

Genre: Sci-fi, dystopia Published: Angry Robot, April 2025 My Rating: 3/5 stars Three individuals separated by 200 years are linked by...