Category: Book Reviews

War memoir is the form I trust most. Not because it’s more accurate than fiction, O’Brien spent an entire book… The post Best war memoirs appeared first on She Reads Everything.

I’ve always found the Gothic drawn to what’s left unsaid. It’s the thing in the locked room, the secret that… The post Best books on Queer Gothics: where to start with the subgenre appeared first on She Reads Everything.

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 […]

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 […]