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There is a particular pleasure in a Riley Sager novel that arrives with the season’s first cold front. You sense the setup before the second chapter ends. An isolated location. A clever woman in over her head. A history that refuses to stay buried. The Unknown by Riley Sager honors that contract, then quietly tilts […]

Traditional Gothic asks what’s hidden in the house, the family, or the past; there’s a cause, even if it’s buried…. The post Cosmic Gothic: horror at the edge of understanding appeared first on She Reads Everything.

Bonnie Garmus had a problem after Lessons in Chemistry. Following up a bestseller with sixteen international literary awards, two years on the New York Times list, and an Apple TV adaptation is the kind of pressure that turns ordinary people into recluses, or worse, into writers who keep trying to repeat themselves. Peck & Peck […]

A scintillating insight into the life of a surgeon practicing from the 1960s to the 1990s From the time Tony Goodman found and dissected a dead bird at eleven years old, his future was all but set. The only career he could see himself pursuing was that of a doctor. Little did he know the […]

Robust worldbuilding and intense action make for a rousing premiere of this science fiction series. If you normally skip prologues, don’t skip this one. It presents the intriguing history of, and an invitation into, the city of Rhea on the planet Ares. It’s home to protagonist Jakob Daedalus, a high-ranked member of the Praetorian Guard. […]

The Los Angeles of 1870 had five thousand inhabitants, one hundred and ten saloons, six policemen, and no laws on the books about drunkenness or sex work. Into this dust-blown pueblo arrive three Chinese women, none of whom chose to come. Out of that historical pressure cooker, Lisa See builds her newest novel, Daughters of […]