Strange Practice Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. MEET GRETA HELSING, DOCTOR TO THE UNDEAD. Dr. Greta Helsing has inherited the family’s highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. She treats the undead […]
July is over and we’re into August, which means we’re just a tiny bit closer to autumn starting and this oppressive heat breaking. It’s been really hot on Long Island, and there’s been air quality alerts most days. This isn’t the best kind of weather for asthmatics like […]
Strange Folk Thank you to NetGalley, Atria Books, and Zakiya Jamal for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: self-harm/blood magic, blood, addiction, death, violence, neglect, statutory rape (off-page), murder, domestic violence, grief, mention of genocide, gore A woman […]
This week’s prompt was submitted by Angela @ Reading Frenzy and it’s such a great one. I’m going to talk about ten debut novels I enjoyed, meaning the first published book by an author. It is going to make me think a little harder than I would normally, […]
Long Island Compromise Thank you to NetGalley and Random House for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. In 1980 a wealthy businessman named Carl Fletcher is kidnapped from his driveway in a cloistered town on the nicest part of Long Island, brutalized, and […]
First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Paris past midnight is a magnificent creature, conjured […]
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books Thank you to NetGalley and William Morrow for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: book bans, prejudice, antisemitism, infidelity, xenophobia, suicide, brief mention of sexual assault, homophobia, white supremacy The provocative […]
House of Glass Thank you to NetGalley, St. Martin’s Press, and Macmillan Audio for providing me with a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: murder, ableism, infidelity, addiction, death of a parent, trauma, grief On the outside they were the golden family […]
The Fire Within Them Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The second book in Matthew Ward’s action-packed trilogy, the Soulfire Saga, The Fire Within Them is set in a world ruled by an immortal king, […]
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad Thank you to NetGalley and HarperVia for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A collection of short stories, structured as case-studies, and a form of love letter in solidarity with the women […]
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