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ARC Review – Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske
At a magical academy for mage-healers, scholar complete their final exam in a group, solving five cases over the course of five days. Estiene, Alys, Clement, Moyna, and Jehan enter the hall for their first case, only to find the most accomplished scholar in their cohort dead on the floor. After completing the first case,…
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ARC Review – The Henchperson’s Guide to Unionizing by Marshall J. Moore
On the run from yet another peasant mob after their latest attempt to create new life from corpse parts, Doctor and his faithful assistant Igor end up in the isolated Ravenwald Manor, only to find out that they are not alone there. Increasingly disillusioned with the Doctor’s quest, Igor befriends Grimalkin, a witch’s familiar, and…
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Weekly Roundup – What I Read / Listened to 8/24/26-8/30/26
By the time you’re reading this I’ll have started classes, so I’m both very excited and also slightly terrified as I’m writing this. Weirdly, I feel like I usually read more during the school year because it feels like more of an escape than it does while I’m on break. That being said, I didn’t…
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ARC Review – Trad Wife by Sarah Langan
With her career on a sudden downturn, journalist Jenny Kaplan accepts an assignment to write about Mia Wright, a trad wife influencer living on an isolated farm with her beautiful husband and seven children.Jenny goes in expecting to write a critical article exposing the disparity between Mia’s actual life and the life she show on…
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ARC Review – Strange Is the Light by Sarah Maria Griffin
Every summer while they were growing up, four friends converged on the island of Valentia to play a game of their own invention, the rules of which are defined only by the bounds of their imaginations. After a single night goes wrong and separates them, the game goes unplayed for many years until they are…
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ARC Review – She’s a Doll by Barbara Truelove
It’s bad enough being dead, but when Lucy McQuinn is murdered and wakes up in the body of antique doll, all she has on her mind is vengeance. She finds an unlikely ally in Nicola who has her own score to settle with Lucy’s killer and through some strange twist of fate is the only…
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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…
