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Rings of Fate by Melissa de la Cruz

Rings of Fate (Deluxe Limited Edition) by Melissa de la Cruz on January 6, 2026 Genres: Fiction / Fantasy / Humorous, Fiction / Fantasy / Romance, Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Pages: 512 Format: Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Aren Bellamore has no interest in being anyone’s princess. She’s too busy running the Raven’s Beak […]

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The Kikiloa Chronicles by Erik D. Larson

An inventive, deeply personal journey across the multiverse, where the hardest thing to outrun is loneliness “My experience of her song was a projection of mine unsung.” The first novel in The Kikiloa Chronicles by Erik D. Larson isn’t easy to define. Part speculative fiction, part time-travel adventure, and part philosophical debate, it asks whether […]

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Where to Start With the Booker Prize 2026 Longlist

I read the Booker Prize 2026 longlist announcement on my phone, standing up, and the first thing I thought was: a man in a bag. Somebody has written a novel about a man who gets paid to sit in university lectures inside a large black bag, and five serious judges have put it on the […]

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What to Read Before Nolan’s Odyssey

Most preparation lists for a film adaptation are wildly optimistic about your calendar. They hand you eleven books and a chart of the Greek pantheon and assume you have retired. So let me try something more useful and organise what to read before Nolan’s Odyssey by the only variable that matters, which is how much […]

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Searching for Harold by Stephen Watts

A genuine, textured portrait of a family on the front lines and home fronts of WWII Searching for Harold: One Family’s World War II Story in Letters is Stephen Watts’s second venture into epistolary family history. Watts’s comfort with genealogy is evident in his treatment of the sizable correspondence of the Watts and Carleton families, […]

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It Happened. Make of It What You Will by Joanna Potepa

An atmospheric, genre-bending memoir that transforms life’s smallest detours into profound moments of revelation In It Happened. Make of It What You Will, Joanna Potepa resists tidy generic classification, blending memoir, travel writing, and personal essay into a mosaic of what she calls “still frames:” brief moments in which ordinary experience takes on unexpected significance.  […]

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How to Find Love in the Cereal Aisle by Alissa DeRogatis: A Book Club Review

Some novels are built for solitary reading. Others practically beg to be argued about over wine and someone’s good cheese board. How to Find Love in the Cereal Aisle by Alissa DeRogatis belongs firmly to the second group, which makes sense once you learn the publisher tucked a reading group guide into the back of […]

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Next to You by Hannah Bonam-Young

Next to You by Hannah Bonam-Young on March 10, 2023 Genres: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Romance / Romantic Comedy Pages: 418 Format: Paperback Buy on Amazon Goodreads Lane is in the middle of an identity crisis. Her friends are all partnered up, her career is heading nowhere, and simply put, she’s not […]

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Review: Daughter of the Golden Realm by Eva Barber

Synopsis: Emery inherits a mystical necklace and a cryptic warning of its importance to humanity’s survival. When her mother’s body vanishes, Emery leads a band of refugees into a desolate, post-apocalyptic world and an eerie underground city, ruled by unscrupulous and immortal beings. Grieving her mother’s death, haunted by visions emitted by the necklace, and […]

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Lost and Found by Tarah DeWitt

Two hours into a charter trip off the Oregon coast, a woman is braced against the rail of a boat with a rod bending in her hands, screaming that she will not be bested by a Picasso-looking fish. A deckhand asks her to mind the children on board. Her firefighter roommate, who has caught nothing […]