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Inventive sci-fi with a big heart It’s the year 3430, an age where interstellar travel is routine and rebuilding a severed limb is as ordinary as resetting a bone. Humanity believes it has mastered its future, yet on the fringes, there lurks a psychological, nearly invisible enemy intent on consuming everything we’ve built.  At sixteen […]

A riveting drama that dives deep into the intricacies of friendship and intimate relationships A Moment’s Surrender finds Paul Bishop coping with the death of his close friend, Tom Corbin. When Bishop reaches out to his late friend’s widow and child to express condolences, he soon becomes a needed source of comfort while bearing a […]

Some novels whisper. Others raise their hands and call something out of the wood. The Unicorn Hunters by Katherine Arden does both, and the result is a quietly defiant historical fantasy that takes a real Breton girl with a real losing hand and asks what might have happened if the old stories had been true. […]

A fun fantasy about magic ink and a superhero’s fight to save the world from the evil Finger Gunman It all begins in Ancient Egypt in 450 BC. Kepri, an artist chosen by the sun god Ra to possess magic ink, sees three falcons circling overhead, then six, then more, moving in a spiritual trance. […]

A funny, epistolary-style narrative listening in on the citizens of a small town intentionally and unintentionally revealing too much during an uninterrupted town forum A sinkhole in a football field, the recent death of a beloved crossing guard, an elementary school renaming to erase the memory of a Nazi sympathizer. These and other local issues […]

The opening pages of Land by Maggie O’Farrell drop the reader onto a windswept Atlantic peninsula. The year is 1865, the wind is salted and ceaseless, and a ten-year-old boy named Liam stands holding the end of a surveying chain while his father, Tomás, measures the distance between two drumlins. Twenty years after the Great […]

The setting is a maternity home, Wellwood Home, in 1970 Florida. Young women are sent there by their families to… The post Witchcraft for Wayward Girls appeared first on She Reads Everything.