What We Both Know explores the MeToo movement and how power imbalances can shift. With her father’s health condition deteriorating, Hillary Greene recently…
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An Unthinkable Thing by Nicole Lundrigan
An Unthinkable Thing fully held my rapt attention from start to finish. In 1958, after someone brutally murders his aunt, eleven-year-old Tommie moves in wi..,
The Summer We Buried
The Summer We Buried by Jody Gehrman is a suspenseful story with many reveals along the way. Twenty years ago, Tansy fell under Selene’s charming and erratic…
A Lullaby for Witches by Hester Fox
A Lullaby for Witches by Hester Fox is a wonderfully atmospheric and magical novel. Augusta Podos is tired of her job as a tour guide for a historic jail…
Mrs Death Misses Death
Mrs Death Misses Death is a short novel, but is moving, and at times, difficult to read due to the subject matter. It is exhausting being Mrs Death…
A Letter to Three Witches
A Letter to Three Witches is a lighthearted and fun read full of zany characters. Nearly a century ago, after a disastrous incident that lead to the Dustbowl…
The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
The Ballerinas by Rachel Kapelke-Dale is one of my favourite books of the year. Delphine returns to the Paris Opera Ballet after having been away for fourteen..
Love in the Big City
Translated from Korean to English, Love in the Big City follows Young, a millennial, as he navigates life’s ups and downs
Within These Wicked Walls
I loved this Ethiopian-inspired fantasy retelling of Jane Eyre. Within These Wicked Walls by Lauren Blackwood has gore, romance, rooms filled with blood…
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall
Burntcoat by Sarah Hall is the most exquisitely haunting story I’ve read in a long time. Edith Harkness, a renowned sculptor, is living her last days and…