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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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Next in Line, by T.W. Baker | Book Guide and Review
I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect when I picked up Next in Line by T.W. Baker going by the cover. As it turns out, this is a workplace comedy novel that tackles the chaos of pharmacy life through oodles of dry…
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The Migration of Vivex, by Xyne | Book Review
Released on 23 March 2026, The Migration of Vivex by Xyne is a LitRPG novel that slithers straight out of the dark swamp of survival fiction. I reviewed the first book a couple of months ago—in fact, it was my first real…
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The Last Diaspora: Book 1: Letters To Earth, by Mandy Gardner | Book Review
Released in 2019, The Last Diaspora: Letters to Earth by Mandy Gardner is the first in a five-book sci-fi series about planetary colonisation, published by Endless Ink Publishing. While comparisons inevitably arise to Interstellar and Andy Weir novels like The Martian, this…
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The Dyre Prophecy, by Wyatt Moore | Book Review
Some books feel like they were made to be discovered on a school library shelf, shoved into a bag and finished in one sitting. Wyatt Moore’s second novel after 7 Days to Die is that kind of book. The Dyre Prophecy follows…
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