Trigger warning for brief discussion of suicide. In the years before a cure was available […]
The Haunting of Moscow House, by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore
Because their uncle decides that the Golitevs would wait out the revolution in the hope […]
The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois, by Ryan Graudin
The three Enchantresses—Céleste, Honoré, and Sylvie—scrape a living with a variety of cons. They are […]
The Reformatory, by Tananarive Due
Trigger warnings for abuse and torture of children and prevalent racism. Tananarive Due’s novel, The […]
The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish, by Paula Brackston
According to her mother, Hecate Cavendish needs to settle down with a nice man. According […]
Vultures in the House of Silence, by A.R. Latif
A.R. Latif’s historical fantasy, Vultures in the House of Silence, has one of the grimmest […]
The Silver Bone, by Andrey Kurkov
In the mad, violent days of the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian Civil War, Samson Kolechko […]
The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden
It’s been just over 100 years since the end of World War I. The last […]
The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years, by Shubnum Khan
Shubnum Khan’s powerful, hypnotic novel, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, floored me. I feel […]
The Bullet Swallower, by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Sonoros, we learn early in Elizabeth Gonzalez James’s violent meditation on the sins of […]