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A young girl is thrown into the unpredictable and often dangerous realities of her world as she becomes a witch on the run in this fast-paced fantasy. Life in Lowtown is rough and precarious. With an overbearing czar, the infectious Rot plaguing the people, and the Cossacks murdering witches on the streets, twelve-year-old Lavender is […]

A treatise on the nature and limits of women’s power in a patriarchal culture and the necessity of imagining a true emancipation Hannibal ante portas—Hannibal is at the gates. In autumn of 216 BCE, the Roman Republic is gripped by existential crisis following a disastrous defeat at Cannae at the hands of the Carthaginian general. […]

A formidable collection of elegies about environmental change and the loss of habitat The Place That Is Coming To Us, the latest collection of poems by accomplished poet J.D Smith, deals with what can be meaningfully said about the future of the environment and all its creatures, so many of whose kind will not be […]

Forgotten voices echo, scattered hearts converge, Three souls seek belonging in history’s surge, Love transcends borders, time, and pain, A keeper of lost children finds purpose again. Illuminating the Forgotten: An Overview In an era when historical fiction often treads familiar ground, Sadeqa Johnson emerges with Keeper of Lost Children by Sadeqa Johnson, a meticulously […]

Fantasy fiction is a form of storytelling that features elements we don’t see in everyday life, such as magic, imaginary… The post Fantasy Fiction appeared first on She Reads Everything.

An unsettling portrait of modern intimacy A meditation on infatuation and the complex power dynamics that characterize contemporary relationships, Gisela Fitzgerald’s Her Most Deadly Rival explores the thorny process of regaining identity and agency in the domestic sphere as chaos reigns in the wider world. Will it prove too much for even a self-described Queen […]

Loss has a way of shrinking our world. For Matilda “Tilly” Nightingale, grief transformed her from an avid reader into someone who couldn’t make it past a few sentences without the words blurring into meaninglessness. Six months after losing her fiancé Joe to illness, she receives an unexpected phone call from Book Lane, her local […]