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Monthly Features – August 2026

The Weight of Snow by Sal Nudo I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion. Synopsis: The past doesn’t wash away. It just freezes over. For fourteen years, Alex Neitzel has lived a life built on a foundation of silence and blood money. To the residents of […]

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Stop Marketing Your Book. Start Marketing the Question.

What if the best way to interest readers in your book is to stop talking about the book? I didn’t come to this idea because I had some brilliant marketing strategy. I came to it because I was tired of trying to find new ways to post the same book. If you’re an indie author, […]

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Midnight Curfew by Penelope Douglas

She is twenty years old. She wears tailored knickerbockers and suspenders and a ribbon in her hair, paints the classroom windows of a school she does not attend, and calls the man who is technically her stepbrother her brother. Everyone who loves her uses the name Anna-Katherine. The name on her birth certificate is Sophia, […]

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Trust Fall by Lynn Painter

Trust Fall by Lynn Painter on September 29, 2026 Genres: Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Young Adult Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy, Young Adult Fiction / Social Themes / Class Differences Pages: 416 Format: ARC Buy on Amazon Goodreads Julia is just a small-town girl from Nebraska who loves her peaceful life. […]

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The Last Emperor of China by Paul French

There is a single sentence about her in five hundred pages. Reginald Johnston, tutor to the last emperor, wrote his memoir in 1934 and mentioned in passing that a Miss Isabel Ingram, the empress’s American friend, sometimes joined their picnics in the garden. That is all. She had spent two years in the Forbidden City, […]

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Not Good Neighbors by Violet Lumani

Not Good Neighbors by Violet Lumani on June 2, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Enemies to Lovers, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy Pages: 368 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Not Good Neighbors was a light, cute rom-com that kept me entertained! I’m always up for a good […]

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Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison

Count the chapters. The first section of this novel runs ten of them, unhurried, long enough to establish six friendships, one recent catastrophe and a venue. The sixth section is a single chapter and it is over in nine pages. Nothing in the text announces this. The reader simply begins to feel the floor tilting, […]

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Wolf.e by Paisley Hope

Wolf. E (Deluxe Edition) by Paisley Hope on October 14, 2025 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Dark Romance, Fiction / Romance / Motorcycle Club, Fiction / Romance / Suspense Pages: 432 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads As president of the Hounds of Hell motorcycle club, my life has been […]

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Killer Looks by Steven Fisher

A past obsession turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse between a serial killer and his hero. Killer Looks is an intriguing psychological mystery where every move becomes part of a twisted addictive puzzle. The question isn’t who committed the murders, we already know that. Instead, it is whether detectives can catch him […]

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Better Angel by Caryn Green

Some books ask you to suspend disbelief. Better Angel asks you to suspend certainty. Caryn Green has written one of the most original speculative novels I’ve encountered in years, though even that label feels too narrow. Blending historical fiction, political commentary, philosophy, and an affectionate character study of Abraham Lincoln, Better Angel becomes something wholly […]