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ARC Review – Monsters of Ohio by John Scalzi
Have you ever felt so much at once—so angry, so happy, so scared, so excited—that you could just…explode? Well, in the small town of Richland, Ohio, under the looming threat of the town’s largest employer shutting down, peoples’ fears and frustrations are mounting, ready to erupt. It starts with a cow named Cassie, but soon…
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ARC Review – As You Wake, Break the Shell by Becky Chambers
“Why do you love, Colibri?It is necessary?How so?It is the only logical response.To what?To existence.“ The people of Fortune are only one of many colony ships sent off by OCTA with the tools and instructions to establish human civilizations throughout the galaxy, but Fortune is a particularly challenging planet to live on, and even with…
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ARC Review – Solace House by Will Maclean
It’s the summer of 1993, and university student Alex Lane has no job, nowhere to live, and no plan. In a strange twist of fate, he ends up joining a team of students tasked with clearing out an abandoned hospital for development by the university, and the nearby manor, Solace House. What they find in…
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ARC Review – Strange Lights by Mira González
Sometimes a family is just a genderfluid paranormal investigator, a chupacabra in the shape of a human toddler, and a sentient magical Winnebago—Reggie makes it work, or at least she’s trying to until her friend Calvin, a skeptic and podcaster, gets turn into a werewolf and there’s a sudden uptick in UFO sightings. Their weird…
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ARC Review – Buzzard by Inez Ray
Seven years after her arrest and six years after her escape, the last midwife with the training to perform an abortion has the opportunity to take down the para-military organization that imprisoned her and committed horrific crimes, and potentially the opportunity to reunite with the sons she was separated from years before. Mae Bastet’s story…
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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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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 – 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,…
