There are a lot of reasons to read indie books. They’re good, first and foremost. (Or they can be.) They can be pretty cheap too. But to me, the best part is discovering the unknown. My brother came to my new house this weekend. To visitors, books are usually a pretty popular topic of conversation. Since they surround the […]
A twisted (and twisty!) traumantasy about the power of love under a tyrannical king’s violent, sex-centric rule The Foreign Wife is a story about finding unexpectedly sweet, life-saving love that gives you hope and courage to defy a brutal regime. Author June Yang infuses this novel with breathtaking emotional reveals about the horrors in Typress, […]
At four in the morning, in a big cheap house nobody wanted, a frail woman in a sleeveless nightdress stands with her nose almost against the sitting-room window. She presses her veined hands to the glass and taps, the way you tap to get the attention of somebody outside. Her granddaughter finds her there, skin […]
What happens when a world-class opera singer, trained to command the most prestigious stages in Stuttgart and Lyon, decides to explore the power of silence? For Diana Elizabeth Martinovich, the answer lies in the pages of her gripping debut novel, Echoes of the Unspoken. In a literary landscape filled with predictable tropes, Martinovich brings a clinical, almost […]
Looking for a towel in a stranger’s bathroom, an assassin opens a closet door and stops breathing. Hanging on the inside is a strip of cream linen with a black crescent moon bisected by a single line — the preaching sash of the cult that took her family, groomed her sister, and burned to the […]
Synopsis: When all is taken, what remains? In 1912, twelve-year-old Joseph Cross and his cousin Elizabeth White Cloud are torn from the foothills of Montana and sent across the country to the Carlisle Indian School, where children are stripped of their language, their traditions, and even their names. Separated from home and forced into a […]
The Graham Effect by Elle Kennedy on November 1, 2023 Genres: Fiction / Romance / New Adult, Fiction / Romance / Sports Pages: 489 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Gigi Graham has exactly three goals: qualify for the women’s national hockey team, win Olympic gold, and step out of her famous father’s shadow. So […]
At a fan convention in Las Vegas, hemmed in by a crowd and already having the worst month of her professional life, a reality star feels a hand close hard on her arm and swings without looking. She is aiming at the gossip blogger who has spent six years dismantling her online for clicks. She […]
A provocative vision for saving filmmaking in the age of streaming, AI, and technological upheaval Scott Hadley Morgan’s Multiverses of Entertainment is not a book that does things by halves. Part industry analysis, part technological manifesto, part philosophical treatise, and part ideological blueprint for rebuilding Hollywood, it sets out to answer a wide-ranging question: What […]
A thought-provoking look at the confrontations of the online world breaking into reality If conflict is the lifeblood of fiction, it could be said the exploitation of conflict is the lifeblood of social media. Shanghai Casino owner Shane Thomas takes this further by arranging and hosting the annual Shanghai Lottery: a boxing card to settle […]