BOOKLOVES

You know that feeling when you’re swimming in a lake, and suddenly the water beneath your feet turns ice-cold? That’s the sensation Sarah Sawyer’s debut novel “The Undercurrent” left me with—a chill that starts in your toes and creeps up your spine, leaving you unsettled long after you’ve dried off on the shore. A Slow […]

Ever had that eerie feeling of déjà vu, like you’ve lived a moment before? C.J. Cooke’s latest spine-tingler, “The Book of Witching,” will have you questioning reality, history, and the very fabric of time itself. Set against the windswept backdrop of Scotland’s Orkney Islands, this genre-bending masterpiece weaves together strands of historical fiction, supernatural horror, […]

Have you ever wished you could turn back time and undo a terrible mistake? To erase one awful moment that shattered your relationship with someone you love? Frank Szatowski would give anything for that chance with his estranged daughter Maggie. So when she suddenly calls after three years of silence to invite him to her […]

A Chilling Portrait of Modern Authoritarianism In the shadowy corridors of power that crisscross our globalized world, a new beast is stirring. It’s not the cartoon villain of Cold War propaganda, twirling a mustache while plotting world domination. No, this monster is far more insidious – a hydra-headed network of kleptocrats, propagandists, and security services […]

We live in an age of anxiety. Climate change, political instability, pandemics—it sometimes feels like we’re teetering on the brink of catastrophe. T J Newman taps into these fears with surgical precision in her latest white-knuckle thriller “Worst Case Scenario,” imagining a perfect storm of disaster that threatens to wipe an entire region off the […]

When the Sun Goes Out, the Shenanigans Light Up Ever had one of those vacations where everything just goes spectacularly wrong? You know, the kind where you’re like, “Well, at least the sun is shining”? Yeah, about that… M.J. Wassmer’s debut novel, “Zero Stars, Do Not Recommend,” takes that whole vacation-gone-wrong trope and cranks it […]