Author Craig Leener hits nothing but net in the third and final installment of his Zeke Archer Trilogy with This Was Always About Basketball. Perfectly balancing young adult drama with time-traveling fantasy, this novel is a thrilling, heartwrenching, and mind-bending read. [...]
Author Alex Grass has created an intricately woven fantasy that combines the secrets of the carnival world with the overarching realm of pure evil and self-sacrificing good in Black River Lantern. Eddie is the son of aging carnival owner Papa Marivicos, [...]
Author A. Skorobogaty weaves a remarkable origin story unlike any other in Enok and the Womb of Gods, a magical mixture of history and mythology. Pulling from ancient sources and stories known the world over, this novel expands the backstory of [...]
A 2020 collection of savagely good writers, The VD Anthology, Vol. 2 brings together more than a dozen excerpts, stories and poems from Club Verbal Discharge. From letters to Coronavirus and nostalgic greasy spoon tales in London to modern-day bigotry and [...]
The road to vengeance is paved with deadly choices in Fatal Decision by T.K. Wolf, the first novel in what promises to be an exhilarating series. Sam Harker, a masterful assassin with a score to settle, is putting her unmatched skill [...]
A shocking and multi-layered thriller, Perilous Last-Minute Christmas Shopping by Annie de Muynck is an unpredictable tale of terror, freedom, perseverance, and the occasional horror of the holidays. Written with a matter-of-fact, methodical tone that still pumps suspense into every scene, [...]
The Shade Under the Mango Tree by Evy Journey is a dazzling, globe-spanning tale of two interconnected lives, bound in an unlikely way, but forever changed by the connection. From a simple lost notebook comes an unusual storybook romance, a tale [...]
Virginie Despentes, former sex worker, film director, queer icon, delivers her comment on modern-day Paris in three volumes to varying success. Set just before the Bataclan terrorist attack of 2015, we follow Vernon Subutex, once a fiercely rocking independent record shop [...]
In this modern English folk tale of a family's grim legacy, writer Andrew Michael Hurley has created an exquisite nightmare. When one is English, one grows up with the dark past biting at your ankles, a past where fairies and witches [...]
In this disturbing cozy mystery style novel from one of New England's finest writers, it is hard to know if this work is intentionally meta or whether Moshfegh caught herself in the net she weaves here. Let's get this straight. I [...]