A five-star review of Gaius Konstantine’s Fading Away: Dark Bay, a crime novel about an immigrant boy who learns to stay invisible in 1970s Brooklyn.
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From the Cell to the Pulpit: Rev. Joaquin R. Larriba’s Remember the Prisoners
Before he was a minister, Rev. Joaquin R. Larriba was, by his own account, a man with a talent for bad decisions. Remember the Prisoners is his account of how he found his way out, and a message of hope for anyone who believes they can’t.
Gwyn’s Kingdom by Brian Holshouser Review: A Strong Magic School Fantasy
Seventeen-year-old photographer Sylvia Brooks already lives under the shadow of her father’s crimes when she moves into the Gallo mansion to finish high school. Two people vanish. She wakes with a head wound and a hole in her memory. In a town ready to believe the worst of her, she has to decide whether she is hunting the truth or becoming it.
Book Feature: Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo
Have you ever reached the last book of a series and wanted to read it slowly, just so it wouldn’t be over yet? That’s exactly where I landed with Dead Beat, the final Alex Stern novel from Leigh Bardugo. Ninth House came out in 2019. Hell Bent followed in 2023. And then we waited, again, for Bardugo to tell us what happens when a girl who can see the dead drags someone back out of hell and forgets to close the door behind her.
Book Review: A Healer’s Prophecy by Karoline Ettinger
Karoline Ettinger’s A Healer’s Prophecy, Book 1 of the Kallos Trilogy, is a hopeful, beautifully written coming-of-age fantasy. Read our five-star review.
Book Review: Alone Together by S.S. Fitzgerald
Army veteran Dr. Dakota J. Miller reviews Alone Together by S.S. Fitzgerald, a post-apocalyptic horror novel that gets pandemic protocols right.
#JustReadingNook Halloween Picks
Five horror legends, seven indie standouts, and the double features to read them in. Your October stack starts here.
Book Review: The Gallos by C.J. Simone
Seventeen-year-old photographer Sylvia Brooks already lives under the shadow of her father’s crimes when she moves into the Gallo mansion to finish high school. Two people vanish. She wakes with a head wound and a hole in her memory. In a town ready to believe the worst of her, she has to decide whether she is hunting the truth or becoming it.
Book Review: Itsy Bitsy Spyder by J.R. Larriba
J.R. Larriba’s Itsy Bitsy Spyder: Evolution starts as a gritty Marin County murder case and ends somewhere far stranger. The genre swerves can jolt you, but sharp banter, a creeping sentient fog, and real heart make this a wild ride worth taking.”
Spotlight: Dr. Dakota J. Miller
Dakota J. Miller wrote a Southern Gothic novella about a family fleeing the Salem witch trials. Then the internet came for him over AI. Here’s what actually happened, in his own words.