BOOKLOVES

Some horror creeps. Some horror sprints. Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep does something stranger. It straps you into a chair, hands you a phone shaped like a game controller, and asks you to steer a corpse who isn’t quite a corpse across America, all while the man trapped inside his own dead skull screams […]

A tightly focused collection of poems and mini essays that reflect on what it means to be loved and accepted and how that can shift and change over time Yermiyahu Ahron Taub’s Night Breaks in the Garret is a significant exploration that deeply mines the poet’s personal life, including fluid ideas about identity and belonging […]

True love wins out in this fun crime thriller with a sci-fi twist. When Sam Stanton’s partner Michelle and her family are murdered, his world is shattered. Despite being an extraterrestrial placed on Earth to protect its citizens from the burgeoning crime rates, he couldn’t protect the one woman who meant the world to him. […]

Most epic fantasies open with a map and a prophecy. The River She Became opens with a girl hiding her mother’s gold bangles in a flour tin, then deciding whether to spoon out half of her own meager ration for a starving neighbor. That small, aching choice tells you what kind of story you have […]

Yet another satisfying mystery from Steven Fisher, complete with romance, desire, and eerily personal connections It’s been some time since Kevin Mathers cracked his first murder case in Killer Personality;not as a homicide detective but as the boyfriend of the infamous serial killer, Olivia.  Olivia’s spree claimed the life of his best friend, Gary, a […]

Some enemies-to-lovers stories tiptoe up to the line. This one body-checks you into the boards on page one and grins while you find your teeth. Tempting Venom by Rina Kent is the third book in the Vipers series, and it hands the microphone to two of the most gleefully unhinged narrators in her whole catalog. […]