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What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

This might be controversial, but I enjoyed T. Kingfisher’s What Moves the Dead more than Poe’s original The Fall of the House of Usher. Alex Easton, a non-binar

The Martyr by Anthony Ryan

The Martyr by Anthony Ryan, Book Two of The Covenant of Steel, picks up where Book One ended. Alwyn Scribe is still at Lady Evadine’s side as protectors and.,.

First Born by Will Dean

First Born by Will Dean shells out uno reverse card after uno reverse card. Twenty-two-year-old Molly Raven has an obsession with analyzing and maintaining…

Reputation by Sarah Vaughan

Reputation by Sarah Vaughan shows that it takes time to build a good reputation, but only a moment to tear it asunder. Emma, a relatively new politician, is…

Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin

Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin reminds me of old-school Atwood. Vera has spent her entire life in a small mountainous cloud-covered community cut off from…

And There He Kept Her by Joshua Moehling

And There He Kept Her is a dark and disturbing police procedural novel. On a frigid, rainy night, two teens attempt to break into what they believe is an uns…

It All Comes Down to This by Therese Anne Fowler

It All Comes Down to This is a slowly-paced family drama. Marti Geller knows she will be dying soon. It’s only a matter of days. She has organized everything…

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is a contemporary romance with characters trying to process their trauma. Five years after the death of her husband..

Never Coming Home by Hannah Mary McKinnon

Never Coming Home will have you rooting for the bad guy. To outward appearances, Lucas Forester looks like the grieving husband he should be. His wife went…

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah

The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah is an epic start to a trilogy inspired by One Thousand and One Nights. Loulie al-Nazari, the Midnight Merchant, began…