Some novels announce themselves with a thunderclap. Others walk in barefoot, smelling faintly of beer, drop into a kitchen chair, and start talking before you’ve offered them coffee. Dirty Myrtle by Kennedy Weible is the second kind, and I mean that as the highest compliment I can pay a crime novel set on the Grand […]
There are opening chapters in fiction, and then there are openings that ruin your evening because you cannot put the book down. Rosie Walsh’s newest belongs squarely in the second category. The first pages of The One Day You Were My Husband by Rosie Walsh drop the reader onto a beach in the Gulf of […]
A house fire takes about fifteen minutes to gut a kitchen. A marriage can take fifteen years to come apart, longer if you count the careful repairs. In her sophomore novel, The Burning Side, Sarah Damoff puts both timelines on the same page and asks what survives when everything you built with someone else turns […]
A rich, sweeping novel of community, belonging, love, and regret set in Senegal Alice has experienced much heartache since she last set foot in Africa: With a heavy secret, she left the first man she ever loved behind in Senegal; she lost her sister in a tragic accident; and she grew distant from the niece […]
The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe was published anonymously in 1706 and is usually attributed to Daniel Defoe. It has been described as “the first modern ghost story”. This post may contain affiliate links that earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. The Apparition of Mrs. Veal by Daniel Defoe […]
Welcome back to the world of New World City, where corruption and conspiracy reach far beyond the boundaries of the metropolis. In the second installment of his hyperArcana series, Spencer Hey transports readers far from the urban rot of New World City to the volatile frontier town of Outwash. When the town uncovers a cache […]
In their biggest battle yet, the people of Cedar Key band together to fight for the one thing that means the most to them—their community. Living in a post-nuclear world, the people of Cedar Key know a thing or two about community. With no army to call on, no hospital to attend, and seemingly no […]
There’s a moment about a third of the way through where Emmett Bush is sweating under a stage light in a tailored suit, cowboy boots, and a bolo tie while ten women size him up like he’s livestock at auction. He looks miserable. He also looks like a man who has finally found a punishment […]
The confessional is a box. The convent is a set of walls with a gate that locks from the outside…. The post Best books on Ecclesiastical Gothic appeared first on She Reads Everything.
Getting book reviews ain’t easy. It takes time. Preparation. Organization. Money (probably). Skill. Patience. It takes success to make more of it. But it’s also deeply rewarding in more ways than one. Reviews are powerful marketing tools. They help you find readers and learn how you are satisfying them. I’d love it if you published your book in […]