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Review: Liminal - Jordan Tannahill
Genre: Literary Memoir Published: House of Anansi Press, January 2018 My Rating: 3/5 stars "In this moment, I am that hulking computer filling the room with my burning incomprehension, unable to reconcile the impossible equation of your body divided by infinity." Part personal memoir, part philosophical essays and musings on life in general, this might be one of the most marmite-books I read all year. For as far as there’s a story here at all, it takes place over the course o

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Review: Dreams in Which I'm Almost Human - Hannah Soyer
Genre: Memoir, Disability Essays Published: Red Hen Press, June 2026 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "I’m not sure which inheritance has shaped me more— that of the women in my family who came before me, or that of my non-blood community, my Crip siblings and ancestors. I am someone with stories written on my body because of how my body is made, how it looks , how it inhabits the world— I need people to help me in order to live, a need that is painted as beautiful by some and horrible

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Review: Carnalis by Tiffany Morris - a horror novella
Genre: horror novella Published: Nictitating Books, March 1st 2026 My Rating: 4/5 stars “Humans are meat that dreams. Impulses of flesh within flesh, sinew and gristle, movement and longing, electric and chemical signals that create an experience called human.” There are a few tropes that I’d consider my “buzz-kill-words” in books. They are basically the opposite of buzz-words, meaning that if I hear your book contains one of these tropes, I will almost instantly lose interes

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Review: We Burned So Bright - T.J. Klune
Genre: Sci-fi Novella Published: Tor Books & Pan MacMillan International, May 2026 My Rating: 3/5 stars “You have a choice. You get to choose who you love. No matter what happens next, no one can take that away from you.” After a yearslong streak of feel-good queer novels, T.J. Klune is switching things up with his latest release; an apocalyptic novella in which we follow an elderly queer couple on a roadtrip across America, in the final days before the earth will be swallowe

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Review: The Iron Garden Sutra - A.D. Sui
Genre: Science Fiction Published: Erewhon Books, February 2026 My Rating: 5/5 stars “First there was the fear of being. Fear of being became fear of not-being. Those are the two original fears.” Consider this a PSA to all sci-fi-fans: mark February 28th on your calendars to go out and pick up this novel upon release. You won’t regret it! A.D. Sui blends a beautiful, meditative and philosophical science-fiction story with a closed-room-murder-mystery in space, and although tha

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Review: Hemlock - Melissa Faliveno
Genre: literary horror, gothic, queer Published: Little Brown and Company, January 2026 My Rating: 5/5 stars, first favourite of 2026 "Because no matter how far you run, she knew—no matter how hard you try to shed your old skin and become something else—the place you come from stays with you. It always calls you back." The second I finished Hemlock , I realized two things. First, this was going to be a marmite-book that I won’t be able to recommend to just any wide audience.

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Review: The Enchanted Greenhouse - Sarah Beth Durst
Genre: Cozy Fantasy Published: Tor UK, July 2025 My Rating: 5/5 stars “People were cruel to you, and it didn’t make you bitter. What else would you call that?” “Naïve? Needy? Pathetic?” “Strong,” he insisted.” For the longest time, I felt left out of the hype of cozy fantasy. I desperately wanted to like it, but somehow just couldn’t find one I truly loved. Last year, The Spellshop made my Most Surprising-list of the year, for changing that, and this year its sequel cemen

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

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

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

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Review: Leafskin - Miranda Schmidt
Genre: Magical Realism Published: Stillhouse Press, March 2025 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars, rounded down "Jo moves through a world that is...

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Review: Somewhere Beyond the Sea - T.J. Klune
Genre: Fantasy Published: Tor Books, September 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars “When I lived in the city, I dreamed in color, of places where...

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Review: We Used to Live Here - Marcus Kliewer
Genre: Horror Published: Atria Books, June 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars "Once they're in, they never leave..." It’s no secret that I’m a...

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Review: Sheine Lende - Darcie Little Badger
Genre: Magical Realism, middle-grade/young adult Published: Levine Querido, April 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars with a warming ghostly...

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Review: Bloom - Delilah S. Dawson
Genre: Horror, Romance, Novella Published: Titan Books, November 2023 My Rating: 1/5 stars I haven’t been thís annoyed by a protagonist,...

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Review: A Botanical Daughter -
Genre: Magical realism, horror, classics-retold Published: Titan Books, March 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars “A family! Simon, of course!...

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Review: Infinity Alchemist - Kacen Callender
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Published: Faber&Faber Ltd, February 6th 2023 My Rating: 2/5 stars “We’re all made of energy” Ash said...

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Review: Mislaid in Parts Half-Known - Seanan McGuire
Genre: Fantasy, Novella Published: Tordotcom, January 2024 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars “I don’t think we get second chances with our own...

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