Review: Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Equal parts disarming, charming, and disgusting, Someone You Can Build a Nest In is one of the most original works of speculative fiction I’ve read in a long time. Shesheshen […]
Review: Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
I can always trust Silvia Moreno-Garcia to dream up a fun story in an atmospheric setting. Silver Nitrate delivers exactly that, although it stumbles when it comes to characters. Set […]
Review: Natural Beauty by Ling Ling Huang
Ling Ling Huang’s debut novel is a chilling and provocative body horror about beauty, consumption, and capitalism. Natural Beauty follows an unnamed narrator through her adolescence and early adult life […]
Mini-Reviews: Brainwyrms & The Left Hand of Darkness
Alison Rumfitt’s books are not for the faint of heart, but to be fair, she did warn me. I knew things were going to get wild after that content warning. […]
Mini-Reviews: The Mystery at Dunvegan Castle & Mongrels
In the third outing of the Edinburgh Nights series, streetwise teenager Ropa Moyo has left the city on a wee work trip. Stuck wrangling attendees at the Society of Skeptical Inquirers’ […]
Review: Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
Bad Cree follows Mackenzie, a Cree millennial living a mundane existence in Vancouver…until the day she wakes from a nightmare holding a bloody crow’s head in her palm. Drawing on […]
Mini-Reviews: Sawkill Girls & The Governess Game
When Marion Althouse and her family move to the island of Sawkill Rock, they’re hoping it will be a place to recover from tragedy. Marion craves a change of scene […]
Mini-Reviews: Just Like Home & The Black God’s Drums
Vera Crowder’s estranged mother calls her out of the blue to deliver bad news: first, she’s dying, and even worse, it’s time for Vera to come home. It’s been twelve […]
Book and Movie Review: The Dark Tower by Stephen King
Wherein I review the first book in Stephen King’s horror fantasy series The Dark Tower, and the movie adaptation of the same name starring Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey.
Review: Mapping the Interior by Stephen Graham Jones
Stephen Graham Jones’ novella MAPPING THE INTERIOR is an extremely unsettling story about a young boy haunted by the ghosts of his family, both literally and figuratively. Compelling, searing, and well written, this story will undoubtedly be on my mind for quite some time.
Graphic Novel Reviews: Anya’s Ghost & Through The Woods
Anya’s Ghost by Vera Brosgol Genre: YA, Fantasy Publisher: First Second on June 7, 2011 Source: Borrowed Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn’t kidding about […]