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ARC Review – The Missed Connection by Tia Williams
Sasha is a casting director, and no man has ever so perfectly fit the role of her love interest as the man in seat F she meets on a long flight. Somehow, the two lose track of each other in the airport and she realizes they didn’t exchange any information that could lead her to…
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ARC Review – Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim
Every time a person crosses a boundary, there’s a chance that they might split into two ‘instances’, with one moving on to live their life in a new place and the other being left behind. Soyoung, a young woman living in South Korea, barely knows her instance Rose in America. They split when she was…
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ARC Review – The Children by Melissa Albert
The God of Endings meets Immaculate Conception in this adult gothic fantasy about the two adult children of an immensely famous children’s book series, forced to face the reality that their childhood was not as idyllic as the stories their mother wrote them into. After decades without a word to each other, Guinevere’s idealized memoir…
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ARC Review – It Came From Neverland by Cynthia Pelayo
Wendy Darling is all grown up, working in a children’s home in the midst of the first World War. Largely estranged from her brothers, Wendy is desperate to move on from her traumatic childhood and escape the media circus that ensued upon their return. But twelve years after Wendy’s first taste of magic, Neverland is…
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ARC Review – Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions, family vlogging channels, manosphere podcasts, and traditional values. Read this book before you take the exit onto that road. Natalie Heller Mills has a beautiful, perfect life on a charming farm with a boisterous family and extremely successful Instagram account. Or at least she had all…
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ARC Review – The Brides by Charlotte Cross
Through letters and journal entries, the story of Lucy, Malfalda, Alice, and Eliza unfolds. In the face of illness and turmoil they make their way to Castle Dracula, but what promises to aid them soon becomes a living nightmare and their secrets and fears might just come back to bite them. There’s something to be…
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ARC Review – Dreamland by Olivie Blake
In the dry, oppressive heat of the summer in LA girls are showing up dead, arranged into macabre displays that horrify and fascinate the public. However, Anya Morris–an aspiring actress made claustrophobic by her circumstances–is not focused on dead girls. Running on cunning and ambition, Anya receives a mysterious but promising opportunity to work for…
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ARC Review – Everybody’s Perfect by Jo Walton
In the wondrous city of Serenissima, a strange shadow of Venice, time evades understanding and many species live in not-so-perfect harmony. A laborer’s dream unmasks a prophesy that promises to change a world that seems to defy change. Hm, okay, how do I feel. Well, first of all, I’m absolutely obsessed with the premise of…
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ARC Review – Fruit Fly by Josh Silver
Mallory’s debut novel was a massive success, but seven years of writer’s block have taken their toll and she’s desperate for a fresh story to tell. In an attempt to escape the crushing hold of her life, Mallory has a chance encounter with Leo, a young gay man in the throes of addiction. Inspired by…
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ARC Review – Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves
My 5-star Slump – 215 days, 157 books Meet Death. He goes by Travis at the moment and when he isn’t sitting beside people in their final moments he likes to wander or sit in his apartment restoring old photos. His life of peaceful detachment is interrupted when Layla, the little girl in the apartment…
