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  • April 17, 2024

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 […]

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  • November 22, 2023

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 […]

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  • November 15, 2023

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 […]

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  • October 25, 2023

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. […]

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  • September 20, 2023

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’ […]

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  • February 17, 2023

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 […]

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  • December 20, 2022

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 […]

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  • November 7, 2022

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 […]

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  • August 18, 2017

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.

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  • June 20, 2017

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.

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  • December 16, 2014

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 […]

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