Our narrator produces a sound from the piano no one else at the Conservatory can. She employs a technique she learned from her parents—also talented musicians—who fled China in the…
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Book Review: The Last Murder at the End of the World
Solve the murder to save what’s left of the world. Outside the island there is nothing: the world was destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it…
Book Review: Fruit of the Dead by Rachel Lyon
Camp counsellor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her highly strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one…
Book Review: Jaded by Ela Lee
A young lawyer wakes up the morning after a work gala with no memory of how she got home the previous night and must figure out what, exactly, happened—and how…
Book Review: Ripe by Sarah Rose Etter
A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie is trapped in a corporate nightmare. Between the long hours, toxic bosses and unethical projects, she struggles…
Book Review: Ghosts: The Button House Archives
Everybody leaves a trace. The ghosts of Button House may have been dead a long time – some of them a very long time – but they have all left…
Book Review: Bunny by Mona Awad
Samantha Heather Mackey couldn’t be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England’s Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her…
2023 in Book Reviews: Motherthing, Cleopatra and Frankenstein, The List & New Animal
Today’s book review roundup is an eclectic mix of love, grief, chaos and just downright disaster. It includes; Ainslie Hogarth’s Motherthing, Coco Mellors’ Cleopatra and Frankenstein, Yomi Adegoke’s The List…
Book Review: Rouge by Mona Awad
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in…