Another Grumpy Iguana tale as sweet as sweet potato fries Sweet Potato is different. While her brothers are out playing games about eating as many bugs as they can, all Sweet Potato wants to eat are mangoes and sweet potato fries. And while her family is sleepy in the sun, she wants to go on […]
A sometimes raw, always luminous exploration of motherhood, martyrdom, and women’s untold stories By the time the unnamed protagonist of Book of Hours goes into labor, the reader has followed her through more than 100 pages of distinctly female bodily unease, from an adolescent eating disorder to adult fertility struggles sharpened by the dehumanizing […]
What do you do with a thriller that hands you the killers before the first chapter even begins? That is the gamble at the heart of Getting Away With Murder by Shari Lapena, her tenth stand-alone novel, and it mostly pays off. The prologue puts you on a pitching sailboat twelve miles off Manhattan, watching […]
Synopsis: THERE BE DRAGON is an adult epic fantasy with slow-burn romance in a sprawling world of magic, greedy demigods, and dark prophesies. When the people of magical Kalador prayed for a savior, they summoned Kwe—a battle-scarred soldier from a futuristic Earth who is plagued by memories of his violent past. He’s told that an […]
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Monthly Features – July 2026
Eidolon: From the Case Files of the OHR by C.L. Stiles I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest opinion. Synopsis: When a man vanishes from a Kansas City diner — pulled through reality by forces no one can explain — Nathan Quipp knows it’s only the beginning. […]
Some books announce their intentions in the first line. The Lovers, the Liars, and Me by DeAndra Davis opens with its narrator shuffling her absent mother’s tarot deck and asking the ancestors for guidance, and in that single image you already have the whole novel: a girl clinging to borrowed wisdom because she has not […]
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House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J Maas
House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas on January 30, 2024 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Paranormal, Fiction / Fantasy / Romance, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy, Fiction / Romance / General Pages: 816 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Bryce Quinlan never expected to see a world other than Midgard, but now […]
Some thrillers open with a body. Buyer Beware by Catherine Ryan Howard opens with a property viewing, which, in the middle of an Irish housing crisis, might be the more frightening scene. A woman drifts through a crowded open house, hiding in the shuffle of desperate buyers, and wonders which of them will be the […]
Synopsis: Sekya has spent her life making herself small. Raised in an orphanage alongside Khala, Riva, and Lio, she has done whatever it takes to keep her found family together — even if it means surviving in Silk House, a pleasure house in the fire dominion of Eratari. On the world of Thyra, power belongs […]
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Road to Glory by J.E. Brady
A trio of childhood friends navigate the cut-and-thrust of adolescence during the Napoleonic Wars in this richly fulfilling Regency-era Shakespeare adaptation. Three childhood chums and their friends in 1814 England try to find their path in life during a tumultuous time of war against both Napoleon and America in Road to Glory by J.E. Brady. […]