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ARC Review – Adam, Mine. by K. Ancrum
Victor Frankenstein is a brilliant young man studying the alchemical arts, but the scorn and mockery of his classmates drives him to ambitiously pursue human reanimation, no matter the cost. Elias Hilfiker, the boy Victor chooses to remake into a monster, awakens in agony, covered in scars from Victor’s deranged experiments. Rejected by his family,…
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ARC Review – Under Story by Chloe Benjamin
Running away from her failed marriage and the tragedy that caused it, Laurel leaves her job in academic mycology to work as a dishwasher at the isolated McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica.Looming over the station is a beautiful anomaly called the Arc which appeared recently out of nowhere and seems to defy physics. When Laurel’s…
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ARC Review – Blacktail by Scott Hawkins
A lone wolf, Blacktail’s life is forever changed when he falls in love with a pet dog who soon dies at her owners’ hands. After taking his vengeance and going on the run to escape the humans hunting him, a mysteriously powerful feline witch sends him on a quest to wake the Forest God, whose…
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ARC Review – She Haunts Me Still by De Elizabeth
After her mother’s tragic and violent death, Mallory was left with a broken heart and a lot of questions. As a freshman theater major at her mother’s alma mater, for the first time she has the chance to search for answers. After getting the lead role in the department’s production of Romeo & Juliet, Mallory…
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ARC Review – The Burn Line by Jonathan Sims
In a sweltering train car in the London Underground during the hottest summer on record, five strangers witness…something. They can’t remember it, but soon each of them find themselves stalked by pale creature that leaves them paralyzed in its proximity. Terrified, the strangers reconnect and piece out what happened, working together to escape the creature…
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ARC Review – The Salt King by Natasha Pulley
At age sixteen, Avelyn fled his small isolated hometown of Hreodwater—home to a salt mine and a culture that lives, breathes, and speaks the mythology of their Salt King—and ran off to become a Jesuit priest at the Vatican in desperate search of guidance and the nurturing embrace of the God he left behind. Twelve…
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ARC Review – You’ll Love it Here by Natalie Sue
After one bitter comment to the wrong person, Mona is forced to take a leave of absence, and she feels the precarious life she’s spent years building up crumbling around her. Unfortunately, her apartment building is literally crumbling around her. After her landlady falls and hurts herself, Mona agrees to watch over the building and…
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ARC Review – Time Travel for Beginners by Jaclyn Moriarty
After being hit by a car, a series of events leads to Anna, a single mother, getting a job at the Time Travel Agency. Despite the name, the place is a cozy hole in the wall with few customers and a small staff led by an eccentric disgraced physicist. Anna is sure that it’s all…
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ARC Review – (Mostly) Human Resources by Grace Viall
Alexys works in the Human Resources department for Entity a company that catalogues, studies, and contains cryptids, attempting to honor the legacy of her father who worked in the field as a Warden and died as a result. Now, one of the Wardens she’s meant to oversee goes missing chasing an undiscovered creature called the…
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ARC Review – Kitten by Stacey Yu
It’s not that Katie’s life is terrible, but she just can’t seem to do things right—to move through the world with the ease that everyone else does. Everyone, including her boyfriend James, who is sweet enough to take a break from work to whisk Katie away to his family’s seaside house. Joining them is Silver,…
