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A unique thriller about a magical stone, the ability to time travel, and a fight to keep one man’s greedy hands away from the ultimate power grab When the Pharoah is gifted a small, green stone, his advisor, Imhotep, notices something peculiar: the stone has magical powers. Wanting to learn more about the stone’s magic […]

There is a specific dread reserved for a doorbell that rings at the wrong hour, in the kind of building where doormen are paid to keep the world at a polite distance. That is where Kimberly McCreight begins, and from that first cold ring she has her hook in you. Police crowd an Upper East […]

What is Gothic Romance? Gothic Romance is where attraction and unease coexist. The relationship itself carries tension, distance, secrecy, imbalance,… The post Gothic Romance: love stories with a shadow appeared first on She Reads Everything.

A pitbull with a gentle spirit finds new purpose with the help of a ragtag team of dogs. The last thing Ninja wants to do is harm other dogs. Unfortunately, she belongs to Mr. Ferguson, a slovenly, mean-spirited man who adopts strays to have them fight one another. When Ninja throws a fight, Mr. Ferguson […]

A generous, well-researched roadmap for overwhelmed parents of special needs kids Daffy, Andrea Moriarty’s third offering on autism parenting, is like a veteran mom showing a newbie the ropes. “I want you to feel included” forms the heart of the book, a sentiment that sets Daffy apart.  “To the mom with white knuckles, unsure if […]

Some fantasy novels open with a whisper. Songs of the Dead opens with a gunshot and a man waking up dead. Jack Solomon, a transplanted American musician scraping by in London’s West End, gets killed in the first act and comes back to a version of the city he never knew existed. Beneath the modern […]

The horror comes from discovering that the people around you have always believed something you don’t, and that you arrived… The post Best folk horror books: ancient dread, rural isolation, and rituals gone wrong appeared first on She Reads Everything.