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There is something uniquely grotesque about a room full of men in tailored suits bidding on human lives while lobster and champagne sit on ice. Sadie Kincaid knows this, and she does not let you forget it. From the very first pages of The Auction by Sadie Kincaid, you are placed inside a holding room […]

Ten years have passed since Juliette Ferrars brought down The Reestablishment. The world breathes differently now, looser, louder, less afraid. But that hard-won freedom is cracking at the edges, and Release Me by Tahereh Mafi arrives as the second book in the Shatter Me: The New Republic series to press its fingers directly into those […]

Modern Gothic literature explores psychological tension, instability, and the persistence of the past within ordinary, contemporary settings. If you’re new… The post Modern Gothic Literature: What It Is, Why It Works, and Where to Start appeared first on She Reads Everything.

There is a metaphor that lives quietly at the heart of Unbound by Peyton Corinne, never announced but always present: Paloma Blake is a tumultuous sea, and Bennett Reiner is a constant shore. The sea cannot help returning. The shore cannot help remaining. It is the kind of image that sounds simple until you realise […]

If you’re new to Gothic literature, start here: → Gothic Literature→ Gothic Literature Starter Pack→ Best Gothic Books for Beginners→… The post American Gothic Literature: Isolation, Violence, and the Landscape of Fear appeared first on She Reads Everything.

An intelligent psychological thriller on vigilante justice told from the opposing perspectives of two powerful protagonists Leon Dermot’s Dissolution Protocol is a character-driven thriller whose propulsive drive comes from two diametrically opposed protagonists—Dr. Caroline Aldridge, an intellectually disciplined psychiatrist, and Detective Maria Radik, her compellingly messy foil. Dissolution Protocol could be called a cat-and-mouse thriller, […]

A historic feat on an extrasolar planet soon turns chaotic in this conspiracy-fueled sci-fi page-turner. Randy Brown’s First Step is the much-awaited sequel to his earlier work, First, which begins with a SpaceFirst astronaut, Eve, about to become the first human to step on Primis, an extrasolar planet.  Remembering Neil Armstrong, of course she is […]

A playful collection of short poems combining deep thought with intense sensory richness Starting from the back of the volume, like we would do perusing at the bookstore, we read in the author’s note of Yes, I’m going to write myself well that Edgar Ballantyne likes poetry “because it’s the shape that thoughts come in […]