Our review of The Lost Company by Michael Maguire, a gritty military fantasy retelling of Xenophon’s Anabasis about soldiers stranded behind enemy lines.
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Author, Poet, Artist: The Many Pages of Despoina Kemeridou
She dreamed her first story night after night, then built a design career helping indie authors look as good as they write. Meet Despoina Kemeridou, author, poet, and artist.
The Book of Revelations by Mitchell Hadley: A Life Told in Fragments
Just Reading Nook’s review of The Book of Revelations by Mitchell Hadley, a layered, restrained novel about one woman’s shifting names and the past she can’t outrun.
The Art Thief, the Mafia Heir, and the Letters That Started It All
Justine Castellon reviews Life Out Loud by SR Stacy, a witty mafia romantic suspense with an art thief heroine, a pen-pal romance, and a stolen Velázquez.
Nineteen Doors, One Deal, and No Way Out: A Review of The Nineteen Doors of Belferith
A birthday joke becomes a deal with the devil in William J. Burkhardt’s The Nineteen Doors of Belferith, an Atlantic City horror thriller. Read our review.
A Brilliant Mind, a Lethal Case: Indecent Ink Brings Fox Argall Back
J.R. Larriba reviews Indecent Ink, Collings MacCrae’s Fox Argall mystery about a stolen manuscript, a rising body count, and a neurodivergent genius.
Two Worlds, One Reckoning: Inside the Nightmare of Sacred Valley: Obversion
A review of Sacred Valley: Obversion by Shaun M. Jooste, a dark, visceral horror novel about addiction, guilt, and a rotting mirror world. 4/5 stars.
What’s New This Week at #JustReadingNook?
Dragons, a Paris kidnapping, and Colleen Hoover back on the charts lead this week’s NYT bestsellers. On the indie side, there’s a 1980s mafia confession, a runaway heir, a revenge thriller, a marriage tested by a storm, a deadly mansion game, and a grimdark legend told before the noose.
The Man Nobody Saw, A Review of Fading Away: Dark Bay by Gaius Konstantine
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.
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.