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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.

A darkly evocative, psychologically rich tale about what happens when the pursuit of power erodes the self Prepare to be pulled into a powerful story where ambition rots into obsession and where intimacy is commanded rather than given in The Moonscorn Mandate. Sahar Radosz’s novel is a dark, eroticized psychological fantasy with disturbing undertones, where […]

Detroit hums beneath the smokestacks of 1927, and Ruta Sepetys returns to her birthplace with a story hiding in plain sight for a century. A Fortune of Sand by Ruta Sepetys moves the Lithuanian-American novelist away from the European stages of her earlier work and plants her firmly in the Motor City, swapping deportation trains […]