Category: Reviews

  • Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering – Book Review

    Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis –On a fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It’s her best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she’s just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering—with a jolt of…

  • The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste – Book Review

    The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis – In a country divided between humans and witchers, Venus Stoneheart hustles as a brewer making illegal love potions to support her family. What Venus is most afraid of is the dark, sentient magic within her. As Venus crawls deeper into the corrupt underbelly of her city, the line between magic and power…

  • The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones – Book Review

    The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis – Jade is back in the third and final entry to the Indian Lake Trilogy.  Jade returns to Proofrock, Idaho, to build a life after the years of sacrifice, only to find another monster waiting for her. Will she ever get a happy ending? Song This Reminds Me Of – Waiting Room by…

  • Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan – Book Review

    Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan – Book Review

    Quick Synopsis – Welcome to Tiankawi – shining pearl of human civilization and a safe haven for those fleeing civil unrest. Or at least, that’s how it first appears. But in the semi-flooded city, humans are, quite literally, on peering down from skyscrapers and aerial walkways on the fathomfolk — sirens, seawitches, kelpies and kappas—who…