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  • Chinatown’s Dark History: Review of The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore

    Chinatown’s Dark History: Review of The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by Heather B. Moore

    She has no idea that the rest of her life will be spent rescuing Chinese girls…

  • When Neighborhoods Dissolve: Review of When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

    When Neighborhoods Dissolve: Review of When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole

    What happens when an oppressor pushes you out of a space that has shaped you?

  • Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: Review of Red Pill by Hari Kunzru

    Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: Review of Red Pill by Hari Kunzru

    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

    ‘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

    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…

  • The Reader’s Paradise: Review of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

    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…

  • Through Twists and Timelines: Review of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

    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

    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

    “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…

  • Learning to Love Yourself: Review of Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

    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…

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