BOOKLOVES

Jennifer Givhan’s Salt Bones arrives like a fever dream born from the brackish waters of the Salton Sea, where the boundaries between reality and folklore blur as dangerously as the toxic vapors rising from California’s forgotten inland ocean. This isn’t merely a retelling of the Persephone myth—it’s a sophisticated excavation of generational trauma, environmental catastrophe, […]

Steve Berry has built his reputation on historically-infused adventures featuring Cotton Malone, but with “The List,” he ventures into darker, more intimate territory that feels remarkably personal and unnervingly plausible. This standalone thriller, originally conceived in 1992 but finally published in 2025, represents Berry at his most grounded—trading ancient conspiracies for modern corporate evil that […]

Danica Nava returns with her sophomore romance novel, Love Is a War Song, delivering a story that’s part fish-out-of-water comedy, part grumpy-sunshine romance, and wholly engaging exploration of identity, belonging, and what it truly means to be home. Following her acclaimed debut The Truth According to Ember, Nava once again proves her mastery at weaving […]

Cassandra Khaw’s latest offering, The Library at Hellebore, emerges as a savage deconstruction of the dark academia genre, wielding prose like a scalpel to dissect the very bones of institutional horror. This isn’t merely another boarding school nightmare—it’s a full-throated scream against systems that commodify trauma and package suffering as education. The novel follows Alessa […]

Katie Yee’s debut novel arrives like an unexpected punchline to a joke you didn’t know you were waiting for. Maggie; or, A Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar opens with what promises to be a familiar setup—a couple dining at an Indian restaurant—but quickly subverts expectations when the husband’s confession of infidelity is […]