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Boleyn Traitor Sees Philippa Gregory Revisit Familiar Ground with Mixed Results
By Lacy Baugher Milas October 17, 2025 | 1:00pm
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Marie Lu Confidently Steps Out of the YA World with Harrowing, Emotionally Complex Fantasy Red City
By Lacy Baugher Milas October 14, 2025 | 10:01am
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Dark Fantasy Alchemised Is a Complicated, Disturbing, But Ultimately Compelling Ride
By Lacy Baugher Milas September 23, 2025 | 10:01am
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Prequel Among the Burning Flowers Is a History Lesson For Priory of the Orange Tree Fans
By Lacy Baugher Milas September 22, 2025 | 10:01am
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With Boudicca's Daughter, Elodie Harper Continues to Give the Women of the Ancient World Their Due
By Lacy Baugher Milas September 15, 2025 | 10:30am
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The Possession of Alba Diaz is Haunting Historical Horror
By Matthew Jackson August 21, 2025 | 10:01am
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The Library at Hellebore Is a Dazzling Horror-Fantasy from Cassandra Khaw
By Matthew Jackson July 23, 2025 | 10:01am
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The Nightshade God Is an Unhinged, Chaotic, and Thoroughly Satisfying Series Conclusion
By Lacy Baugher Milas July 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
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Rose in Chains Is a Highly Addictive Dark Romantasy That Does Right By Its Fanfic Roots
By Lacy Baugher Milas July 8, 2025 | 11:00am
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Chris Chibnall Flexes His Storytelling Skills In a New Medium with Death at the White Hart
By Lacy Baugher Milas June 24, 2025 | 10:30am
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Bury Our Bones In the Midnight Soil Is V.E. Schwab’s Answer to Interview with the Vampire
By Lacy Baugher Milas June 10, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Cardinal Is a Dramatic Tale of One of the Most Influential Members of Henry VIII’s Court
By Lacy Baugher Milas June 2, 2025 | 11:00am
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With Never Flinch, Stephen King Offers an Overstuffed Thriller That Still Delivers
By Matthew Jackson May 28, 2025 | 10:00am
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The Knight and the Moth Is a Gorgeously Imagined Gothic Fantasy Romance
By Lacy Baugher Milas May 20, 2025 | 11:00am
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The Devils Is a Rollicking, Old School Fantasy Adventure (With Teeth)
By Lacy Baugher Milas May 13, 2025 | 10:00am
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Silver Elite Is Bringing Bingeable Dystopian Fiction Back
By Lacy Baugher Milas May 6, 2025 | 11:00am
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The Raven Scholar Deserves to Be the Biggest Fantasy Book of the Year
By Lacy Baugher Milas April 15, 2025 | 10:00am
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Holy Terrors Offers a Chaotic, Thoroughly Satisfying Conclusion to Margaret Owen’s Little Thieves Trilogy
By Lacy Baugher Milas April 3, 2025 | 10:30am
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Sunrise on the Reaping Is the Hunger Games Prequel We’ve Been Waiting For
By Lacy Baugher Milas March 20, 2025 | 10:00am
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Cynthia Pelayo Weaves A Chilling Dreamscape in Vanishing Daughters
By Matthew Jackson March 11, 2025 | 10:30am
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Emily St. James’s Literary Debut Woodworking is a Tale of Friendship, Identity, and Community
By Kayleigh Donaldson March 4, 2025 | 11:15am
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With The Dark Mirror, Samantha Shannon's Bone Season Series Becomes the Fantasy Saga Our Moment Requires
By Lacy Baugher Milas February 27, 2025 | 10:00am
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In All of This Unreal Time, Max Porter Apologizes For Everything
By Nadira Begum December 19, 2024 | 11:00am
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Hurricane Wars Sequel A Monsoon Rising Puts Romance Ahead of Politics
By Lacy Baugher Milas December 10, 2024 | 10:30am
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Remaking an Identity: Memory and Mistakes in The Last One
By Alana Joli Abbott December 3, 2024 | 11:00am
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The Lotus Empire Offers a Blockbuster Conclusion to the Burning Kingdoms Trilogy
By Lacy Baugher Milas November 12, 2024 | 10:30am
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The Sapling Cage Struggles to Grow Beyond Its Premise
By Emily Price September 24, 2024 | 10:30am
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An Empire Built on Body-Swapping: Chloe Gong’s Vilest Things
By Alana Joli Abbott September 19, 2024 | 10:40am
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Briskly Paced An Academy for Liars Is a Delightfully Dark Twist on the Magical Boarding School Setting
By Lacy Baugher Milas September 17, 2024 | 10:30am
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So Thirsty Is Everything You Could Want from a Rachel Harrison Vampire Novel
By Matthew Jackson September 10, 2024 | 10:30am
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The Gods Below’s Incredible Worldbuilding Makes Up For Its Occasionally Thin Characters
By Lacy Baugher Milas September 3, 2024 | 5:35pm
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Long Live Evil Is a Deliciously Subversive Celebration of Everything We Love About Fantasy Romance
By Lacy Baugher Milas August 30, 2024 | 6:20pm
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Crypt of the Moon Spider Is a Fiendishly Imaginative Nightmare
By Matthew Jackson August 28, 2024 | 10:00am
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Wisteria Brings Adalyn Grace’s Belladonna Trilogy to a Close By Shifting the Series' Focus
By Lacy Baugher Milas August 22, 2024 | 11:15am
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Kailee Pedersen's Sacrificial Animals Is One of the Year's Best Horror Debuts
By Matthew Jackson August 20, 2024 | 10:30am
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Hera Gives the Queen of the Gods Her Due
By Lacy Baugher Milas August 16, 2024 | 10:30am
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Ava Reid’s Lady Macbeth Is Ferociously Feminist But Not Particularly True to Shakespeare’s Text
By Lacy Baugher Milas August 13, 2024 | 10:40am
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A Sorceress Comes to Call Is Whimsical, Subversive Fantasy Perfection
By Lacy Baugher Milas August 7, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Casey McQuiston’s The Pairing is a Feast for the Senses and the Feels
By Natalie Zutter August 6, 2024 | 10:40am
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Such Charming Liars Sees Karen McManus Spin a Different Kind of Teen Thriller
By Lacy Baugher Milas July 30, 2024 | 4:28pm
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Blending Stories Across Time in The Melancholy of Untold History
By Alana Joli Abbott July 22, 2024 | 10:30am
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In Spellbinding Sequel Le Fay, the Most Famous Sorceress of Arthurian Legend Enters Her Villain Era
By Lacy Baugher Milas July 17, 2024 | 10:30am
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The Bright Sword is a Radiant Reimagining of Arthurian Legend
By Emily Price July 16, 2024 | 10:30am
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Bury Your Gays Cements Chuck Tingle's Place as a Vital Voice in Horror
By Matthew Jackson July 12, 2024 | 10:00am
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Jenn Lyons's The Sky on Fire Is Breezy High-Fantasy with Bite
By Hayden Mears July 11, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Long Island Compromise Feels Your Pain
By Whitney Friedlander July 9, 2024 | 1:00pm
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Rebirth Below the Waves in Leslye Penelope’s Daughter of the Merciful Deep
By Alana Joli Abbott July 4, 2024 | 10:45am
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The Villain Edit Is a Romance for Reality TV Lovers
By Lacy Baugher Milas July 2, 2024 | 11:20am
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Loops Within Loops Within Loops: Traveling: On The Path Of Joni Mitchell and the Making of a Legend
By Madelyn Dawson June 17, 2024 | 11:30am
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Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo is a Brutal, Remarkably Human Monster Story
By Matthew Jackson June 14, 2024 | 5:00pm
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The Last Murder At the End of the World Doesn’t Quite Live Up to the Promise of Its Fascinating Premise
By Lacy Baugher Milas May 22, 2024 | 2:00pm
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You Like It Darker is a Wondrous Collage of Stephen King Storytelling
By Matthew Jackson May 21, 2024 | 11:30am
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I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons Proves Peter Beagle Is Always Worth the Wait
By Lacy Baugher Milas May 15, 2024 | 12:00pm
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Forbidden Cocktails Entertains With Spirited Libations Celebrating Scandalous Pre-Code American Cinema
By Jim Vorel May 7, 2024 | 2:00pm
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Five Broken Blades: This Delightfully Twisty Fantasy Adventure Strikes True
By Lacy Baugher Milas May 7, 2024 | 11:20am
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If We Shadows Have Offended: Fighting the Fae in Brittany N. Williams's Saint-Seducing Gold
By Alana Joli Abbott April 25, 2024 | 4:52pm
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Emily Henry's Funny Story Has Lots of Heart But Too Little Mischief
By Annie Berke April 23, 2024 | 11:10am
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In To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods, a Heroine Puts Survival Above All—But at What Cost?
By Lacy Baugher Milas April 18, 2024 | 3:30pm
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Second Nightshade Crown Installment The Hemlock Queen Has a Few Sophomore Stumbles
By Lacy Baugher Milas April 10, 2024 | 11:30am
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Leigh Bardugo Effortlessly Steps Into a New Genre with Historical Fantasy The Familiar
By Lacy Baugher Milas April 9, 2024 | 11:00am
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The Angel of Indian Lake: An Overstuffed and Utterly Unstoppable Final Chapter In Stephen Graham Jones’s Epic Horror Trilogy
By Lacy Baugher Milas April 2, 2024 | 10:30am
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Alexandra Tanner's Worry Is a Late Millennial Nightmare
By Emily Price March 27, 2024 | 4:02pm
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How to Solve Your Own Murder Is a Well-Written, Straightforward Mystery
By Jay Snow March 26, 2024 | 5:01pm
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The Mars House Is a Gorgeously Written, Emotionally Complicated Exploration of Our Need for Connection
By Lacy Baugher Milas March 19, 2024 | 10:25am
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All Our Yesterdays: An Emotionally Distant Exploration of a Key Lingering Question From Shakespeare's Macbeth
By Lacy Baugher Milas March 14, 2024 | 2:59pm
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'The Haunting of Velkwood' Is Gripping High-Concept Horror
By Matthew Jackson March 6, 2024 | 11:30am
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Soyoung Park’s Snowglobe Is a Thrilling Dystopian Page-Turner
By Lacy Baugher Milas February 29, 2024 | 9:23pm
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Navigating the Tides of Change In Eliza Chan’s Fathomfolk
By Alana Joli Abbott February 27, 2024 | 11:35am
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Nowhere Like Home Is Another Inviting and Delicious Mystery from Sara Shepard
By Jay Snow February 21, 2024 | 6:30pm
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The Book of Love: Kelly Link's Epic First Novel is a Layered, Long Ode to Love In All Forms
By Felicia Reich February 16, 2024 | 2:23pm
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The Warm Hands of Ghosts Is a Bittersweet Story of Things Both Lost and Found
By Lacy Baugher Milas February 13, 2024 | 11:14am
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Paranormal Romance Bride Marks a Refreshing Swerve for Author Ali Hazelwood
By Lacy Baugher Milas February 6, 2024 | 10:30am
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Come and Get It Is a Satirical Ode to the Complicated, Imperfect Lives of College Women
By Lacy Baugher Milas February 3, 2024 | 10:00am
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The House of Last Resort is Another Horror Page-Turner From Christopher Golden
By Matthew Jackson January 31, 2024 | 1:30pm
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In The Heiress, Long-Held Family Secrets Take Center Stage
By Lacy Baugher Milas January 9, 2024 | 10:40am
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Ruthless Vows Is a Satisfying If Occasionally Overly Fantastical Sequel to Divine Rivals
By Lacy Baugher Milas December 28, 2023 | 1:00pm
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The Kingdom of Sweets Offers a Dark Take on a Holiday Classic
By Lacy Baugher Milas November 28, 2023 | 11:40am
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Michael Cunningham’s Day Is a Timeless Exploration of a Very Specific Moment
By Lacy Baugher Milas November 20, 2023 | 10:45am
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The Temple of Fortuna Successfully Concludes One of the Best Historical Trilogies In Years
By Lacy Baugher Milas November 14, 2023 | 3:43pm
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Naomi Alderman Weaves a Strangely Hopeful Dystopian Tale In The Future
By Lacy Baugher Milas November 9, 2023 | 11:20am
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Check & Mate Is a Delightful YA Debut From Romance Queen Ali Hazelwood
By Lacy Baugher Milas November 7, 2023 | 10:40am
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Nestlings is Another Gripping Journey into Terror from Nat Cassidy
By Matthew Jackson October 31, 2023 | 11:45am
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A Stroke of the Pen Is an Unexpected, Heartfelt Gift to Terry Pratchett Fans
By Lacy Baugher Milas October 27, 2023 | 1:30pm
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Aparna Nancherla Proves Herself an Unreliable Narrator in Debut Essay Collection
By Felicia Reich October 24, 2023 | 4:16pm
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With Sword Catcher, Cassandra Clare Finally Steps Out of the Shadow of Shadowhunters
By Lacy Baugher Milas October 20, 2023 | 11:35am
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Reggie Watts Sparks Creativity in His Memoir Great Falls, MT
By Jack Probst October 19, 2023 | 2:35pm
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Queen Hereafter Offers a Fierce Origin Story for One of Shakespeare’s Most Famous Women
By Lacy Baugher Milas October 11, 2023 | 1:00pm
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A Light Most Hateful Is an Inventive, Creepy Wonder
By Matthew Jackson October 10, 2023 | 10:14am
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Starling House: A Cynical Protagonist Grounds This Strangely Sweet Haunted House Story
By Lacy Baugher Milas October 6, 2023 | 11:40am
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A Haunting on the Hill Beautifully Carries the Legend of Hill House Forward
By Matthew Jackson October 5, 2023 | 10:45am
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Dark and Light Magic Collide In Fantasy Debut The Hurricane Wars
By Lacy Baugher Milas October 3, 2023 | 11:45am
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Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard Is a Luscious Feast of Creeping Fear
By Matthew Jackson September 26, 2023 | 11:45am
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Atmospheric and Evocative, Ava Reid’s A Study in Drowning Is Her Best Yet
By Lacy Baugher Milas September 19, 2023 | 10:45am
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In The Witching Tide, the Historical Persecution of Women Feels All Too Modern
By Lacy Baugher Milas September 7, 2023 | 10:45am
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Holly Turns a Popular Stephen King Supporting Character Into a Thriller Star
By Matthew Jackson September 5, 2023 | 10:25am
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The Phoenix King Methodically Builds Out a Rich and Distinctive Fantasy World
By Lacy Baugher Milas August 31, 2023 | 2:59pm
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Her Radiant Curse Is Elizabeth Lim’s Most Well-Rounded YA Fantasy Yet
By Lacy Baugher Milas August 29, 2023 | 10:37pm
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Captivating Sequel Foxglove Expands the Scope of Belladonna’s World
By Lacy Baugher Milas August 24, 2023 | 10:15am
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Empowering the Marginalized in S.L. Huang’s The Water Outlaws
By Alana Joli Abbott August 22, 2023 | 10:40am
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Thornhedge Reminds Us That All the Best Fairytales Have Teeth
By Lacy Baugher Milas August 15, 2023 | 10:40am
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Daniel Kraus' Whalefall Is a Pulse-Pounding, Stunning Achievement
By Matthew Jackson August 9, 2023 | 11:35am
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Looking Glass Sound Is an Unsettling Look at the Thin Line Between Fiction and Memory
By Lacy Baugher Milas August 8, 2023 | 10:20am
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One of Us Is Back Is a Thrilling Conclusion to Karen McManus’s Bayview Trilogy
By Lacy Baugher Milas July 26, 2023 | 12:35pm
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Feminist Historical Fantasy The Weaver and the Witch Queen Explores the Complex Bonds of Female Friendship
By Lacy Baugher Milas July 25, 2023 | 11:40am
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Silver Nitrate Is Another Instant Silvia Moreno-Garcia Classic
By Matthew Jackson July 18, 2023 | 12:15pm
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A Likeable Woman Is a Rare Misstep From Summer Thriller Queen May Cobb
By Lacy Baugher Milas July 13, 2023 | 10:40am
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The Jasad Heir Strikes a Perfect Balance of Competition, Romance, and Political Intrigue
By Lacy Baugher Milas July 11, 2023 | 12:40pm
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Adult Fantasy Debut A Crown of Ivy and Glass Features an Intriguing Setting But Weak Characters
By Lacy Baugher Milas June 28, 2023 | 12:40pm
