Ben Toh is an overworked, underpaid, under-resourced civil servant in Singapore. He has to turn […]
The Witching Year, by Diana Helmuth
As COVID lockdowns closed the world down, Diana Helmuth began an experiment. For a year […]
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, by V.E. Schwab
I’ve been putting off writing and posting a review of V.E. Schwab’s Bury Our Bones […]
This is My Body, by Lindsay King-Miller
My love of unreliable narrators has drawn me towards books about possession. The best of […]
The Grimoire Grammar School Parent Teacher Association, by Caitlin Rozakis
Vivian has always been desperate to please, to be appropriate, to be perfect, and she’s […]
The Hunger We Pass Down, by Jen Sookfong Lee
Trigger warnings for rape, child sexual abuse, forced prostitution, other forms of abuse, and suicide. […]
6:40 to Montreal, by Eva Jurczyk
I was up way past my bedtime with Eva Jurczyk’s disturbing, fascinating new novel, 6:40 […]
Zone Rouge, by Michael Jerome Plunkett
The Battle of Verdun ended on December 18, 1916. Millions of artillery and gas shells […]
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by Rabih Alameddine
Raja’s mother drives him insane. He spends a lot of Rabih Alameddine’s affecting new novel, […]
Lessons in Magic and Disaster, by Charlie Jane Anders
The irritating thing about cliches and proverbs is how often they turn out to be […]