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Review: Mothtown - Caroline Hardaker
Genre: Magical Realism, Horror, Speculative Published: Angry Robot Press, November 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars “No. This was a truth that I...
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Review: A Haunting in the Arctic - C.J. Cooke
Genre: Historical Fiction, mystery/thriller Published: HarperCollins, October 2023 (UK) My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “I mean, I literally don’t...
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Review: Jackal - Erin A. Adams
Genre: Horror Published: Bantam, October 2022 My Rating: 2/5 stars “Myths are as much a part of the slipstream of Black life as joy. ...
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Review: What Stalks Among Us - Sarah Hollowell
Genre: Young Adult Horror Published: Clarion Books, September 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars Although YA-horror isn’t my typical genre, every...
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Review: On The Isle of Antioch - Amin Maalouf
Genre: literary fiction, Published: World Editions Publishing, December 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars On The Isle of Antioch is an ambitious...
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Review: Ruptured - Joanne Rossmassler Fritz
Genre: Middle Grade, Novel in Verse Published: Holiday House Books, November 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars A fabulous and heartfelt novel in...
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Review: Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit - Jen Campbell
Genre: Poetry Published: Bloodaxe Books, September 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars, potential new all-time favourite <I>"The hospital is not a...
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Review: A Haunting on the Hill - Elizabeth Hand
Genre: Gothic horror Published: Mulholland Books, October 3rd 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Do you know why certain houses make people...
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Review: Night Side of the River - Jeanette Winterson
Genre: Short stories, Literary horror Published: Atlantic Grove Press, October 24t 2023 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars With a seasoned name like...
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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: 3.75/5 stars " The problem with family is that they know where all the...
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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 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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