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Love Me Do, by Meg Macy | Book Review
There’s something satisfying about sequels, and Meg Macy’s Love Me Do, published 15 December 2025, delivers exactly that pleasure. This continuation of the “All You Need Is Love” series proves unafraid to tackle the messy complexities of LGBTQ+ relationships. It’s rare to…
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Rainy Wood (As It Began), by Taanja Mahye | Book Review
The first book in Taanja Mahye’s Rainy Wood series, As It Began is a dark and atmospheric historical novel set in 1917 Minnesota. It follows fifteen-year-old Helen Spooner, an orphan raised in near-total isolation deep in the Northwoods, who is thrust into…
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Let Slip the Beasts, by Suzanne Berget | Book Review
What does it mean to be human when your memories might be fake, your body is no longer your own, and a corporation holds the patent on what you are becoming? That is the question at the centre of Let Slip the…
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Steal the Reaper, by Todd Hosea | Book Review
Steal the Reaper by Todd Hosea is a book with a premise I have never quite encountered before, but that feels like a lost or forgotten Stephen King novel. What if an alien spacecraft crashed on Earth, but plot twist…inside North Korea,…
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Salvation Reigned, by Travis James Peterson | Book Review
Apocalypse stories are a guilty pleasure of mine, so I was eager to dig into Salvation Reigned. It’s a bit of hard book to categorize, and that’s part of its charm. On the surface it’s a science fiction disaster story, but underneath…
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I Get Knocked Down, by Murphy Buck | Book Review
As the title signposts, I Get Knocked Down is a collection of deeply personal poems that tackle some difficult subjects. Poetry can be tricky to review because it’s such a personal form of writing, and what resonates with one reader may not…
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Black River, By Yvonne Osborne | Book Review
Black River by Yvonne Osborne, the follow-up to 2024’s Let Evening Come, is a literary rural noir set in the lowlands of Michigan farm country. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Where the Crawdads Sing sat down for a drink with a William…
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The Sizable Problems With an Interspecies Relationship, by Belladonna Bryson | Book Review
The Sizable Problems With an Interspecies Relationship by Belladonna Bryson, originally released in 2024 with a one-year anniversary edition out in March 2025, is a debut fantasy romance that reads like a love letter to the energy of mid-2000s teen fantasy. If…
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The Hierarchy of Angels, by W. J. Whitley | Book Review
The Hierarchy of Angels by William Whitley, released in May 2026, is a debut novel that drops readers straight into a richly imagined alternate-history world that feels like a lost Jules Verne epic, with strong shades of Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engines thrown…
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The Children of the Children, by Robin McMillion | Book Guide and Review
The Children of the Children is a cult drama set during the final years of the Cold War. The novel centres on an apocalyptic religious community called The Fishermen, where charismatic leadership wields absolute control over members, autonomy is gradually surrendered, and…
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