Category: Book Reviews

Time travel fiction has long captivated readers with its promise of redemption and the tantalizing possibility of correcting life’s most devastating moments. In The Memory Collectors, award-winning film and television producer Dete Meserve ventures into this well-trodden territory with a fresh perspective that combines speculative science fiction with a deeply human mystery. While the novel […]

Geneva Lee’s Fallen Court (2025), the much-anticipated follow-up to Filthy Rich Fae (2024), deepens the drama, sharpens the danger, and stretches the bonds of love and loyalty to their breaking point. Set against the haunting backdrop of fae court politics and otherworldly magic, this second installment in the Filthy Rich Fae series is darker, sexier, […]

Nicola Dinan’s second novel, Disappoint Me, arrives three years after their acclaimed debut Bellies, which won the Polari First Book Prize and established Dinan as a vital voice in contemporary LGBTQ+ literature. Where Bellies explored the complexities of a relationship during gender transition, Disappoint Me ventures into equally challenging territory: the intersection of personal growth, […]

In Cruel Is the Light, debut author Sophie Clark unleashes a sweeping fantasy tale that crackles with celestial warfare, aching romance, and the kind of slow-burn suspense that leaves readers breathless. Set in a reimagined Europe where the Vatican commands a brutal war against the demonic realm, this YA fantasy romance captures the genre’s best […]

M Stevenson’s debut novel Behooved trots into the romantasy arena with a unique premise that could have easily galloped into ridiculous territory—but instead delivers a surprisingly thoughtful exploration of duty, love, and authentic disability representation wrapped in an enchanting fantasy package. While this novel occasionally stumbles under the weight of its ambitious themes, it ultimately […]

Daria Lavelle’s debut novel, Aftertaste, serves up a tantalizing premise: what if the most potent, unfulfilled cravings of the dead could be tasted by the living? For protagonist Konstantin “Kostya” Duhovny, this is his reality, a supernatural ability termed “clairgustance.” The Narrative Platter: Structure, Story, and Sensation Aftertaste by Daria Lavelle charts Kostya’s life from his first […]

With Rewind It Back, Liz Tomforde gifts readers a heartfelt conclusion to her best-selling Windy City sports romance series. The novel brings us back to Chicago ice and into the lives of two former lovers, Hallie Hart and Rio DeLuca, whose shared past returns to the surface like a song you can’t forget. Told with […]

Rachel Gillig, celebrated for her dark fairytale duology One Dark Window and Two Twisted Crowns, returns with a bold new vision in The Knight and the Moth, the first book in The Stonewater Kingdom series. Here, she crafts an atmospheric tale drenched in cathedral light and godless shadows, merging poetic prose with an aching love […]

There are novels that dazzle you with their prose. Others pierce with emotional resonance. And then there are books like Katabasis by R F Kuang—books that challenge your intellectual vanity, whisper secrets you wish you’d never understood, and turn the architecture of academia into the topography of the damned. In this audacious literary and fantasy […]