This book floored me. A dystopian novel with two unlikely companions. Ysmany is a young girl fleeing her community in order to save a baby from a military grade twitch (human who voluntarily chose a technologically advanced “secondskin” suit making them essentially hybrid tech/human) who leads the community and rids them of any perceived threats. Read More …
Let’s start by saying, I loved this book! Emilia Hart’s debut novel Weyward weaves together the stories of three women across different centuries, each facing some form of male oppression or abuse, either personally, or in the case of one, the abuse of her childhood friend. The timeline goes back and forth between 1619, 1942, Read More …
I just finished Calvaria Fell by Kaaron Warren and Cat Sparks, a wonderful collection of stories that range from dystopian to fantasy, but all on the dark and weird end of the scale. I felt all of the stories were very good, not always the case with collections or anthologies, and a few stood out Read More …
This graphic novel adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s THE HANDMAID’S TALE, with art & adaptation by Renee Nault, is superb. For starters, this was one of the most impactful books I’d read at the time so it holds a very special place in my heart. I devoured the TV series when it came out and to Read More …
Welcome Kat Hausler, author of What I Know About July: Writers usually have a lot to say. Otherwise, we wouldn’t fill up whole manuscripts. Somehow, though, the moment someone asks what your book is about, you may find yourself floundering for ideas, wishing you had the back cover so you could hastily plagiarize from the Read More …
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert is an absolute gem of a story about a mother and daughter involved in witchcraft. I had been having a hard time getting into a book lately, but this one kept me turning pages from the start. Albert’s storytelling is smooth and flawless, and her characters were fun to Read More …
Dark Park is Kathe Koja’s follow-up to her novel Dark Factory which was out last year. Dark Factory was an absolute trip, of the good kind. A near future story of a group of characters who are involved in the club scene and discover (or maybe set loose) an energy at a rooftop rave that Read More …
By T. Kent Balo asked Carla to move in three times before she finally caved. They were curled up on his couch watching a Golden Girls rerun—Balo was obsessed with eighties sitcoms—when he raised the subject again. “Come on baby, we can make this work. I need you. Just think, you won’t have to lug Read More …
by J. Ashley-Smith I moved to Australia in the early 2000s, just after I turned thirty. It was a turning point in my life as significant and mind-blowing as the birth of our first child a few years later. The landscape just sucked me in, that vastness, its untameable nature. That wild heart, and the Read More …
I just finished “Little Heaven” by Nick Cutter, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Talk about a twisted journey into the the deep, dark heart of the wilderness (literally)! The story revolves around a group of three misfit mercenaries who are hired to help a woman check on the welfare of her nephew at a remote religious Read More …