Its characters and events, while sinister, are plausible: an uncomfortable mirror to our own world.
‘You’ Series Loses Original Heart in Third Installment: Review of You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes
As per usual, Kepnes pulls out all the stops with bottomless cliffhangers and narrative-shaking revelations.
To Death and Back: Review of Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz
Dantiel W. Moniz’s debut story collection, Milk Blood Heat, pulsates with the everyday horrors of being alive.
The Reader’s Paradise: Review of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Morgenstern’s work is a novel for the book lovers and the story fanatics. It is the reader’s paradise, filled with reading nooks, secret libraries, mysterious books, and attractive storytellers.
Through Twists and Timelines: Review of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Stuart Turton’s debut novel, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, is a book filled with surprises.
Stars and Starts: Review of Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers
The book spins a vibrating tension between silken, lyrical imagery, and anxiety-inducing plot.
“He is Sawdust in the Wind”: Review of The Lumberjack’s Dove by GennaRose Nethercott
The Lumberjack’s story is attractive because it offers readers some folkloric mysticism in the time of quarantine.
Learning to Love Yourself: Review of Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg
These stories provide incisive and cutting looks into being alone in the world and grieving lost relationships.
Bitter Reality: Review of Douglas Stuart’s Short Story “The Englishman”
This story entails an impressively raw and explicit depiction of David’s queer sexuality through the unconventional means of a financially and sexually beneficial relationship.
Glittery and Gritty: Review of Pass with Care: Memoirs by Cooper Lee Bombardier
At the heart of the memoir are Bombardier’s negotiations with his gender presentation and identity throughout the years and the very idea of the “trans memoir.”
