Category: Book Reviews

A moody, suspenseful noir about stolen money, revolutionary ghosts, and the kind of ambition hell-bent on drinking itself under Ron Morris’s Edge of the Golden Moon opens with a classic noir premise, but it gets stranger, sweatier, and more psychologically complicated as time goes on.  Bert is a teacher at a language school in Bangkok, […]

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Somewhere between the talking bunny and the rapping baby, this story does something sneaky: it helps kids sit with fear without being swallowed by it. Some children’s books help kids fall asleep. Others help them make sense of worries they don’t yet have the language for. Mari-chan and Roboto Bunny by Jon Kaczka is a […]

A moving, faith-filled exploration of loss caused by invisible illness Despite her young age, Ellie Williams has already survived decades with a sneaky invisible illness. Being dismissed by doctors since age nine while experiencing devastating and debilitating symptoms that her family couldn’t fully understand, Williams struggles to carry on, leaning heavily on her family and […]

Few rom-com setups arrive with as much swagger as this one: a posh British future-Lord clicks “yes” on a fiancé-matching profile during a drunken truth-or-dare, flies across the Atlantic with a ring in his pocket, and proposes to a paint-splattered candy shop hopeful in her front yard while his best friend feeds him her name […]

A fluid, introspective collection fueled by natural imagery, self-reflection, nostalgia, and experimental structures Utilizing a variety of experimental structures and forms, the poems in Cupid of the Mess dive straight into all of life’s messiness. Romance is the overall underlying conceit, but, in the case of these poems, the word “romance” doesn’t just apply to […]

A fast-paced, ruthless space-western where the only thing worse than the monsters are the people who profit off them On the unforgiving planet Kalderra, Mona Ripple has a job that no one envies. Tasked with scavenging the bodies of kameeba, huge, gelatinous creatures with valuable flesh and even more precious hearts, she and her team […]

Some homecomings are not really homecomings. They are surrenders dressed up in a coat of duty. That is the bruised feeling at the centre of John of John by Douglas Stuart, the third novel from the author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo. John-Calum (Cal) Macleod, broke and graduated from a Scottish textile college with […]

Synopsis: One wrong turn. Seven locked doors. No way out. When Kayla wakes up in a silent, snow-covered forest void of all life, her only sanctuary is a mysterious, pristine manor nestled among the trees. Inside, the coffee is hot and the decor is lavish, but the inhabitant is nowhere to be found. The only […]