Don’t Let Him In by Lisa Jewell on June 24, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Thrillers / Domestic, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense, Fiction / Women Pages: 368 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Martha is a florist living in a neighboring town with her infant daughter and her devoted husband Alistair. But lately, Alistair has […]
Hayley Krischer’s latest young adult thriller, “You Belong to Me,” masterfully weaves together gothic romance, psychological manipulation, and a chilling examination of how wellness culture can become a breeding ground for exploitation. Following her previous works “Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf” and “The Falling Girls,” Krischer continues to demonstrate her exceptional ability to craft stories […]
Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World presents readers with perhaps her most ambitious and unsettling vision yet—a Japan where sexual intimacy between married couples has become as taboo as incest, and artificial insemination represents the pinnacle of civilized reproduction. This speculative fiction masterpiece follows Amane, a woman caught between the “primitive” world of her mother’s sexual desires […]
Falling for Korea by Piper Jean on March 22, 2023 Genres: Fiction / Romance / General Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Even though I don’t usually reach for YA or dive into the K-drama world, Falling for Korea completely pulled me in from the first chapter. Piper Jean—who happens to be a local author […]
Christopher L. Hayes delivers a masterfully constructed examination of our contemporary predicament in “The Sirens’ Call,” a book that transforms the ancient Greek myth into a lens for understanding the most pressing crisis of our time: the systematic extraction and commodification of human attention. This isn’t merely another digital detox manifesto or tech industry critique—it’s […]
Amelia Ireland’s debut novel The Seven O’Clock Club is an ambitious and emotionally resonant work that seamlessly blends elements of magical realism, contemporary fiction, and metaphysical exploration. This haunting tale follows four strangers brought together by an experimental grief therapy program, only to discover a shocking truth that fundamentally alters their understanding of life, death, […]
Viola Shipman’s The Page Turner arrives like a perfectly curated beach read that surprises you with its depth—much like the romance novels that protagonist Emma Page secretly devours while her literary snob parents aren’t watching. This is Shipman’s most ambitious work to date, weaving together family secrets, publishing industry insider knowledge, and a heartfelt tribute […]
In the vast library of World War II historical fiction, few books dare to excavate the stories of women who led from the shadows. Natasha Lester’s The Mademoiselle Alliance doesn’t just dare—it soars. This meticulously researched novel resurrects the extraordinary life of Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, the only woman to lead a French Resistance network during WWII, […]
What if you could simply swallow away the suffocating weight of female guilt? Saumya Dave’s third novel, The Guilt Pill, poses this tantalizing question while delivering a psychological thriller that cuts to the bone of contemporary womanhood. Building on the foundation she established in Well-Behaved Indian Women and What a Happy Family, Dave ventures into […]
Kelsie Sheridan Gonzalez’s debut novel, The Gods Time Forgot, attempts to weave together the rich tapestry of Irish mythology with the glittering backdrop of 1870s Manhattan. The premise is undeniably compelling: Rua awakens with no memories, believing herself to be Emma Harrington, a missing debutante from New York’s elite social circle. Yet beneath this amnesia […]