Category: Book Reviews

Cosmic stakes, pulp energy—a surprisingly human center T.V. Holiday’s Vendetta is a big, loud, earnest superhero fantasy. This third volume of the Legend of the Iron Warrior series drops readers back into Carnage Coast, the last remaining battlefield in a cosmic wager between God and Luc, where Travis Holiday, the Iron Warrior, is supposed to […]

There is a moment near the middle of The Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee when an aging assassin stands at a watchtower gate and watches former colleagues walk into a frozen wasteland to die with dignity. No fight. No betrayal. Just paperwork, polite applause, and a long walk into negative-forty wind. That scene, […]

From Scholarship and Primary Sources to Literary Context When I started putting this list together, the first problem I ran… The post Best books on Southern Italian and Neapolitan folk magic appeared first on She Reads Everything.

The premise of Caller Unknown by Gillian McAllister lands like a phone ringing at four in the morning. A British mother, a teenage daughter, a remote rental lodge in Big Bend country, and one missing girl. From the first chapter, the novel reaches in and grips your wrist, and it does not loosen its hold […]

There is a certain kind of writer who can walk into the smallest room of an ordinary life and find the whole weather of the world hanging in it. Elizabeth Strout has been that writer for almost three decades. Her new novel, The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout, takes us into the head […]

Slewfoot is terrifying in the way the best fairy tales are terrifying, where horror and beauty keep feeding into each… The post Slewfoot by Brom: Fear, beauty, and the devil in Puritan New England appeared first on She Reads Everything.

A slow-burn romance framed by the restoration of a historic building in a charming small town Dan Olson is on track to be partner at Shafer Hodges Architects. When Saving Carlton begins, he is engaged to Hope, the daughter of one of the firm’s biggest clients. To the outside eye, he should be happy, but […]

A resonant collection of stories that channels the longings and discontents of the slow drift toward adulthood in suburban New Jersey “What possible fuckup could I have committed that would have given away my parents’ impending divorce?” Tweens, teenagers, young adults, and moody combinations of the three fill these pages. Nights are spent sitting beside […]

Some books grab you with plot twists. Others quietly settle in, pour you a cup of chamomile tea, and refuse to let you leave until you have cried at someone else’s kitchen table. The Daisy Chain Flower Shop by Laurie Gilmore is firmly the second kind. It is the sixth and final book in Gilmore’s […]