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Waiting for the Bad Thing to Happen, by Anita Fiore Welsh | Book Review
Anita Fiore Welsh was given up for adoption in 1963, through an adoption that wasn’t legal. Her memoir, Waiting For the Bad Thing to Happen, published July 21, 2026, covers the years that followed, including time in foster care, relationships, marriages, all…
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In Between Rooms, by Adrian Mompoint | Book Review
The cover of In Between Rooms gives you a perfect preview of what you’re in for: a bloodied stuffed elephant sitting alone. It’s a fitting image for Adrian M. Mompoint’s second horror novella, which continues to draw heavily from Stephen King. Where…
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Sol Canyon, by Michael Wolf | Book Review
Sol Canyon by Michael Wolf is a Los Angeles detective novel that starts out as a light character piece and gradually turns into something quite a bit darker. Released September 2025, it’s the first book in Michael Wolf’s series following James Gardiner,…
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Syracuse Will Burn, by Jim Loughran | Book Review
Ancient Sicily is, in large part, criminally underused in historical fiction. Everyone wants to write about the fall of Troy or Caesar crossing the Rubicon, but Syracuse rarely gets a mention outside academic texts. That gap is exactly what Irish writer Jim…
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T.V. Holiday’s Vendetta: Legend of The Iron Warrior Vol. 3, by T.V. Holiday | Book Review
Vendetta is the third book in T.V. Holiday’s Legend of The Iron Warrior series. I haven’t read the first two, so I came into it cold, but it turned out to be a gripping and fairly epic read that mostly holds up…
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May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn | Book Guide and Review
May Flowers at The Three Coins Inn is comfort reading in its finest form — the kind of book to curl up with when the world feels overwhelming. It’s the third installment in the Three Coins Inn series, following Easter at The…
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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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