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Review: Silent Key - Laurel Hightower
Genre: Horror Published: Flame Tree Press, October 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars "Death is the one thing secret keepers can't plan for, or at...
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Review: Swim Home to the Vanished - Brendan Shay Basham
Genre: Magical Realism Published: Harper Collins, August 2023 My rating: 4.5/5 stars "When you lose someone close, you travel to the...
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Review: Summer Fishing in Lapland - Juhani Karila
Genre: magical realism Published: Pushkin Press, July 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summer Fishing in Lapland has been out for a few years...
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Review: Field of Screams - Wendy Parris
Genre: Middle-grade horror/mystery Published: Delacorte Press, August 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars Wendy Parris’ debut middle-grade novel is...
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Review: The Surviving Sky - Kritika H. Rao
Genre: fantasy/sci-fi Published: Titan Books, June 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars I added The Surviving Sky to my list of most anticipated...
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Review: Assassin of Reality - Marina and Sergey Dyachenko
Genre: Fantasy Published: Harper Voyager 2023, originally published by Эксмо in 2021 in the original Russian. My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “How...
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Review: A House with Good Bones - T. Kingfisher
Genre: Horror Published: Tor Nightfire, March 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars "The problem with family is that they know where all the levers...
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Review: Wild Spaces - S.L. Coney
Genre: Horror, Coming of Age Published: Tor, August 1st 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars <i>“Father was wrong, he tells him. Sometimes, being...
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Review: Oh God, The Sun Goes - David Connor
Genre: Literary Fiction, Speculative Published: Melville House, August 2023 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars Have you ever read a book that’s so...
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Review: Lump - Nathan Whitlock
Genre: Contemporary Fiction Published: Dundurn Press, August 2023 My Rating: 1/5 stars Nathan Whitlocks latest novel is blurbed as “a...
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Review: The Centre - Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
Genre: Literary Fiction, thriller Published: Gillian Flynn Books, July 2023 Rating: 4/5 stars As the dark-academia-craze of the 2020’s...
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Review: Banyan Moon - Thao Thai
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Quercus Books, June 2023 Rating: 4.5/5 stars “I come from a tribe of women who are ravaged and...
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Review: They Lurk - Ronald Malfi
Genre: Horror novellas Published: Titan Books, July 2023 My rating: 3/5 stars Sensitivity warnings at the bottom. With They Lurk, Titan...
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Review: Dark Water Daughter - H.M. Long
Genre: Fantasy Published: Titan Books, July 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars “There are fates worse than death, Mr. Rosser.” For the past few...
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Review: The Ghost Theatre - Mat Oseman
Genre: Historical Fantasy Published: Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “The thing is, Shay: the stage is the only...
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Review: Little Monsters - Adrienne Brodeur
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Simon & Schuster, June 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "He didn’t understand why these bittersweet...
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Review: The Deluge - Stephen Markley
Genre: Literary Fiction, Climate Fiction Published: Simon & Schuster, January 2023 My Rating: 4/5 stars "I put in earbuds and listened to...
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Review: Soldier Sailor - Claire Kilroy
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Faber&Faber, May 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars "Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one...
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Review: Ascension - Nicholas Binge
Genre: horror, sci-fi/speculative fiction Published: HarperVoyager, April 2023 My Rating: 2.5/5 very conflicted stars Ascension was one of...
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Review: Tides -Sara Freeman
Genre: Literary Fiction Published: Granta Books, January 2022 My Rating: 3/5 stars "If you can't let go of anything, let go of...
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