There is a particular kind of fantasy that smells of coal smoke and wet stone, where magic is not a gift but a resource somebody else wants to strip out of your veins. Stacey McEwan writes in that register, and her second Artisan Trilogy installment leans all the way into it. A Forsaken Prophecy by […]
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Synopsis: Mark Robson is trapped in flux. Every 18 minutes and 32 seconds he wakes up in a new reality, then dies. The only clues to help him stop this crazed cycle and return home to his pregnant wife are the people, things, and events that reappear across worlds, …or what he calls his constants. […]
Some series end with a whisper. This one ends with a catapult, a ballgown, and roughly a hundred short chapters sprinting toward the finish line. The Gilded Blade by Jennifer Lynn Barnes is the third and final book in The Grandest Game trilogy, and it carries the weight of not one storyline but an entire […]
Anatomy of a collapse: How a creative institution drifted into disaster Into Oblivion: The Preventable Collapse of the University of the Arts turns institutional failure into something unexpectedly compelling. Part financial autopsy, part investigative critique, and part lament for a vanished creative institution, it examines the downfall of Philadelphia’s University of the Arts (UARTS). Andrew […]
An inspiring reminder that the greatest journeys are not measured in miles traveled but in knowledge gained Carol McIlwain’s Managing the Bucket List: The Journey Begins (Volume 1) is part travel memoir, part practical guide, and part reflection on lifelong learning. Rather than simply recounting a series of vacations, McIlwain sets out to explore what […]
An easy-going story collection that embraces slice of life humor and emotional depth Bag o’ Goodies is a grounded, contemplative collection that runs a wide gamut. The short fiction is textured with sprinkles of humorous verse in between, the poems like pieces of fairground taffy—both fun and a little sticky. Each story captures an organic, […]
Ramona Wilder walks into her first college lecture having already scraped her professor’s car in the parking lot and called a classmate something unprintable. It is a cold open worthy of a season premiere, and it tells you exactly what kind of ride Extracurricular by Rachel Lynn Solomon is going to be: sharp, a little […]
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A deeply intimate fantasy shaped by grief, coercion, and the longing to live beyond imposed roles “Everything in the waking world is muted. Insignificant. It hardly feels real. How can anyone stand it?” In Cass Henderson’s The Liminal Room, the first in the Phoenix Awakening series, dreams are not an escape from reality. Instead, they […]