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The Library at Hellebore Is a Dazzling Horror-Fantasy from Cassandra Khaw By Matthew Jackson July 23, 2025 | 10:01am
The Nightshade God Is an Unhinged, Chaotic, and Thoroughly Satisfying Series Conclusion By Lacy Baugher Milas July 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
Rose in Chains Is a Highly Addictive Dark Romantasy That Does Right By Its Fanfic Roots By Lacy Baugher Milas July 8, 2025 | 11:00am
Chris Chibnall Flexes His Storytelling Skills In a New Medium with Death at the White Hart By Lacy Baugher Milas June 24, 2025 | 10:30am
Bury Our Bones In the Midnight Soil Is V.E. Schwab’s Answer to Interview with the Vampire By Lacy Baugher Milas June 10, 2025 | 10:00am
The Cardinal Is a Dramatic Tale of One of the Most Influential Members of Henry VIII’s Court By Lacy Baugher Milas June 2, 2025 | 11:00am
With Never Flinch, Stephen King Offers an Overstuffed Thriller That Still Delivers By Matthew Jackson May 28, 2025 | 10:00am
The Knight and the Moth Is a Gorgeously Imagined Gothic Fantasy Romance By Lacy Baugher Milas May 20, 2025 | 11:00am
The Devils Is a Rollicking, Old School Fantasy Adventure (With Teeth) By Lacy Baugher Milas May 13, 2025 | 10:00am
Silver Elite Is Bringing Bingeable Dystopian Fiction Back By Lacy Baugher Milas May 6, 2025 | 11:00am
The Raven Scholar Deserves to Be the Biggest Fantasy Book of the Year By Lacy Baugher Milas April 15, 2025 | 10:00am
Holy Terrors Offers a Chaotic, Thoroughly Satisfying Conclusion to Margaret Owen’s Little Thieves Trilogy By Lacy Baugher Milas April 3, 2025 | 10:30am
Sunrise on the Reaping Is the Hunger Games Prequel We’ve Been Waiting For By Lacy Baugher Milas March 20, 2025 | 10:00am
Cynthia Pelayo Weaves A Chilling Dreamscape in Vanishing Daughters By Matthew Jackson March 11, 2025 | 10:30am
Emily St. James’s Literary Debut Woodworking is a Tale of Friendship, Identity, and Community By Kayleigh Donaldson March 4, 2025 | 11:15am
With The Dark Mirror, Samantha Shannon's Bone Season Series Becomes the Fantasy Saga Our Moment Requires By Lacy Baugher Milas February 27, 2025 | 10:00am
In All of This Unreal Time, Max Porter Apologizes For Everything By Nadira Begum December 19, 2024 | 11:00am
Hurricane Wars Sequel A Monsoon Rising Puts Romance Ahead of Politics By Lacy Baugher Milas December 10, 2024 | 10:30am
Remaking an Identity: Memory and Mistakes in The Last One By Alana Joli Abbott December 3, 2024 | 11:00am
The Lotus Empire Offers a Blockbuster Conclusion to the Burning Kingdoms Trilogy By Lacy Baugher Milas November 12, 2024 | 10:30am
The Sapling Cage Struggles to Grow Beyond Its Premise By Emily Price September 24, 2024 | 10:30am
An Empire Built on Body-Swapping: Chloe Gong’s Vilest Things By Alana Joli Abbott September 19, 2024 | 10:40am
Briskly Paced An Academy for Liars Is a Delightfully Dark Twist on the Magical Boarding School Setting By Lacy Baugher Milas September 17, 2024 | 10:30am
So Thirsty Is Everything You Could Want from a Rachel Harrison Vampire Novel By Matthew Jackson September 10, 2024 | 10:30am
The Gods Below’s Incredible Worldbuilding Makes Up For Its Occasionally Thin Characters By Lacy Baugher Milas September 3, 2024 | 5:35pm
Long Live Evil Is a Deliciously Subversive Celebration of Everything We Love About Fantasy Romance By Lacy Baugher Milas August 30, 2024 | 6:20pm
Crypt of the Moon Spider Is a Fiendishly Imaginative Nightmare By Matthew Jackson August 28, 2024 | 10:00am
Wisteria Brings Adalyn Grace’s Belladonna Trilogy to a Close By Shifting the Series' Focus By Lacy Baugher Milas August 22, 2024 | 11:15am
Kailee Pedersen's Sacrificial Animals Is One of the Year's Best Horror Debuts By Matthew Jackson August 20, 2024 | 10:30am
Hera Gives the Queen of the Gods Her Due By Lacy Baugher Milas August 16, 2024 | 10:30am
Ava Reid’s Lady Macbeth Is Ferociously Feminist But Not Particularly True to Shakespeare’s Text By Lacy Baugher Milas August 13, 2024 | 10:40am
A Sorceress Comes to Call Is Whimsical, Subversive Fantasy Perfection By Lacy Baugher Milas August 7, 2024 | 12:00pm
Casey McQuiston’s The Pairing is a Feast for the Senses and the Feels By Natalie Zutter August 6, 2024 | 10:40am
Such Charming Liars Sees Karen McManus Spin a Different Kind of Teen Thriller By Lacy Baugher Milas July 30, 2024 | 4:28pm
Blending Stories Across Time in The Melancholy of Untold History By Alana Joli Abbott July 22, 2024 | 10:30am
In Spellbinding Sequel Le Fay, the Most Famous Sorceress of Arthurian Legend Enters Her Villain Era By Lacy Baugher Milas July 17, 2024 | 10:30am
The Bright Sword is a Radiant Reimagining of Arthurian Legend By Emily Price July 16, 2024 | 10:30am
Bury Your Gays Cements Chuck Tingle's Place as a Vital Voice in Horror By Matthew Jackson July 12, 2024 | 10:00am
Jenn Lyons's The Sky on Fire Is Breezy High-Fantasy with Bite By Hayden Mears July 11, 2024 | 12:00pm
Long Island Compromise Feels Your Pain By Whitney Friedlander July 9, 2024 | 1:00pm
Rebirth Below the Waves in Leslye Penelope’s Daughter of the Merciful Deep By Alana Joli Abbott July 4, 2024 | 10:45am
The Villain Edit Is a Romance for Reality TV Lovers By Lacy Baugher Milas July 2, 2024 | 11:20am
Loops Within Loops Within Loops: Traveling: On The Path Of Joni Mitchell and the Making of a Legend By Madelyn Dawson June 17, 2024 | 11:30am
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Cuckoo is a Brutal, Remarkably Human Monster Story By Matthew Jackson June 14, 2024 | 5:00pm
The Last Murder At the End of the World Doesn’t Quite Live Up to the Promise of Its Fascinating Premise By Lacy Baugher Milas May 22, 2024 | 2:00pm
You Like It Darker is a Wondrous Collage of Stephen King Storytelling By Matthew Jackson May 21, 2024 | 11:30am
I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons Proves Peter Beagle Is Always Worth the Wait By Lacy Baugher Milas May 15, 2024 | 12:00pm
Forbidden Cocktails Entertains With Spirited Libations Celebrating Scandalous Pre-Code American Cinema By Jim Vorel May 7, 2024 | 2:00pm
Five Broken Blades: This Delightfully Twisty Fantasy Adventure Strikes True By Lacy Baugher Milas May 7, 2024 | 11:20am
If We Shadows Have Offended: Fighting the Fae in Brittany N. Williams's Saint-Seducing Gold By Alana Joli Abbott April 25, 2024 | 4:52pm
Emily Henry's Funny Story Has Lots of Heart But Too Little Mischief By Annie Berke April 23, 2024 | 11:10am
In To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods, a Heroine Puts Survival Above All—But at What Cost? By Lacy Baugher Milas April 18, 2024 | 3:30pm
Second Nightshade Crown Installment The Hemlock Queen Has a Few Sophomore Stumbles By Lacy Baugher Milas April 10, 2024 | 11:30am
Leigh Bardugo Effortlessly Steps Into a New Genre with Historical Fantasy The Familiar By Lacy Baugher Milas April 9, 2024 | 11:00am
The Angel of Indian Lake: An Overstuffed and Utterly Unstoppable Final Chapter In Stephen Graham Jones’s Epic Horror Trilogy By Lacy Baugher Milas April 2, 2024 | 10:30am
Alexandra Tanner's Worry Is a Late Millennial Nightmare By Emily Price March 27, 2024 | 4:02pm
How to Solve Your Own Murder Is a Well-Written, Straightforward Mystery By Jay Snow March 26, 2024 | 5:01pm
The Mars House Is a Gorgeously Written, Emotionally Complicated Exploration of Our Need for Connection By Lacy Baugher Milas March 19, 2024 | 10:25am
All Our Yesterdays: An Emotionally Distant Exploration of a Key Lingering Question From Shakespeare's Macbeth By Lacy Baugher Milas March 14, 2024 | 2:59pm
'The Haunting of Velkwood' Is Gripping High-Concept Horror By Matthew Jackson March 6, 2024 | 11:30am
Soyoung Park’s Snowglobe Is a Thrilling Dystopian Page-Turner By Lacy Baugher Milas February 29, 2024 | 9:23pm
Navigating the Tides of Change In Eliza Chan’s Fathomfolk By Alana Joli Abbott February 27, 2024 | 11:35am
Nowhere Like Home Is Another Inviting and Delicious Mystery from Sara Shepard By Jay Snow February 21, 2024 | 6:30pm
The Book of Love: Kelly Link's Epic First Novel is a Layered, Long Ode to Love In All Forms By Felicia Reich February 16, 2024 | 2:23pm
The Warm Hands of Ghosts Is a Bittersweet Story of Things Both Lost and Found By Lacy Baugher Milas February 13, 2024 | 11:14am
Paranormal Romance Bride Marks a Refreshing Swerve for Author Ali Hazelwood By Lacy Baugher Milas February 6, 2024 | 10:30am
Come and Get It Is a Satirical Ode to the Complicated, Imperfect Lives of College Women By Lacy Baugher Milas February 3, 2024 | 10:00am
The House of Last Resort is Another Horror Page-Turner From Christopher Golden By Matthew Jackson January 31, 2024 | 1:30pm
In The Heiress, Long-Held Family Secrets Take Center Stage By Lacy Baugher Milas January 9, 2024 | 10:40am
Ruthless Vows Is a Satisfying If Occasionally Overly Fantastical Sequel to Divine Rivals By Lacy Baugher Milas December 28, 2023 | 1:00pm
The Kingdom of Sweets Offers a Dark Take on a Holiday Classic By Lacy Baugher Milas November 28, 2023 | 11:40am
Michael Cunningham’s Day Is a Timeless Exploration of a Very Specific Moment By Lacy Baugher Milas November 20, 2023 | 10:45am
The Temple of Fortuna Successfully Concludes One of the Best Historical Trilogies In Years By Lacy Baugher Milas November 14, 2023 | 3:43pm
Naomi Alderman Weaves a Strangely Hopeful Dystopian Tale In The Future By Lacy Baugher Milas November 9, 2023 | 11:20am
Check & Mate Is a Delightful YA Debut From Romance Queen Ali Hazelwood By Lacy Baugher Milas November 7, 2023 | 10:40am
Nestlings is Another Gripping Journey into Terror from Nat Cassidy By Matthew Jackson October 31, 2023 | 11:45am
A Stroke of the Pen Is an Unexpected, Heartfelt Gift to Terry Pratchett Fans By Lacy Baugher Milas October 27, 2023 | 1:30pm
Aparna Nancherla Proves Herself an Unreliable Narrator in Debut Essay Collection By Felicia Reich October 24, 2023 | 4:16pm
With Sword Catcher, Cassandra Clare Finally Steps Out of the Shadow of Shadowhunters By Lacy Baugher Milas October 20, 2023 | 11:35am
Reggie Watts Sparks Creativity in His Memoir Great Falls, MT By Jack Probst October 19, 2023 | 2:35pm
Queen Hereafter Offers a Fierce Origin Story for One of Shakespeare’s Most Famous Women By Lacy Baugher Milas October 11, 2023 | 1:00pm
A Light Most Hateful Is an Inventive, Creepy Wonder By Matthew Jackson October 10, 2023 | 10:14am
Starling House: A Cynical Protagonist Grounds This Strangely Sweet Haunted House Story By Lacy Baugher Milas October 6, 2023 | 11:40am
A Haunting on the Hill Beautifully Carries the Legend of Hill House Forward By Matthew Jackson October 5, 2023 | 10:45am
Dark and Light Magic Collide In Fantasy Debut The Hurricane Wars By Lacy Baugher Milas October 3, 2023 | 11:45am
Chuck Wendig's Black River Orchard Is a Luscious Feast of Creeping Fear By Matthew Jackson September 26, 2023 | 11:45am
Atmospheric and Evocative, Ava Reid’s A Study in Drowning Is Her Best Yet By Lacy Baugher Milas September 19, 2023 | 10:45am
In The Witching Tide, the Historical Persecution of Women Feels All Too Modern By Lacy Baugher Milas September 7, 2023 | 10:45am
Holly Turns a Popular Stephen King Supporting Character Into a Thriller Star By Matthew Jackson September 5, 2023 | 10:25am
The Phoenix King Methodically Builds Out a Rich and Distinctive Fantasy World By Lacy Baugher Milas August 31, 2023 | 2:59pm
Her Radiant Curse Is Elizabeth Lim’s Most Well-Rounded YA Fantasy Yet By Lacy Baugher Milas August 29, 2023 | 10:37pm
Captivating Sequel Foxglove Expands the Scope of Belladonna’s World By Lacy Baugher Milas August 24, 2023 | 10:15am
Empowering the Marginalized in S.L. Huang’s The Water Outlaws By Alana Joli Abbott August 22, 2023 | 10:40am
Thornhedge Reminds Us That All the Best Fairytales Have Teeth By Lacy Baugher Milas August 15, 2023 | 10:40am
Daniel Kraus' Whalefall Is a Pulse-Pounding, Stunning Achievement By Matthew Jackson August 9, 2023 | 11:35am
Looking Glass Sound Is an Unsettling Look at the Thin Line Between Fiction and Memory By Lacy Baugher Milas August 8, 2023 | 10:20am
One of Us Is Back Is a Thrilling Conclusion to Karen McManus’s Bayview Trilogy By Lacy Baugher Milas July 26, 2023 | 12:35pm
Feminist Historical Fantasy The Weaver and the Witch Queen Explores the Complex Bonds of Female Friendship By Lacy Baugher Milas July 25, 2023 | 11:40am
Silver Nitrate Is Another Instant Silvia Moreno-Garcia Classic By Matthew Jackson July 18, 2023 | 12:15pm
A Likeable Woman Is a Rare Misstep From Summer Thriller Queen May Cobb By Lacy Baugher Milas July 13, 2023 | 10:40am
The Jasad Heir Strikes a Perfect Balance of Competition, Romance, and Political Intrigue By Lacy Baugher Milas July 11, 2023 | 12:40pm
Adult Fantasy Debut A Crown of Ivy and Glass Features an Intriguing Setting But Weak Characters By Lacy Baugher Milas June 28, 2023 | 12:40pm
The Only One Left Is a Gripping, Gothic Page-Turner By Matthew Jackson June 20, 2023 | 11:20am
A Symphony of Language and Identity: Ann Leckie’s Translation State By Alana Joli Abbott June 15, 2023 | 11:30am
Love, Theoretically Is Ali Hazelwood’s Nerdiest (and Best) STEM Romance Yet By Lacy Baugher Milas June 14, 2023 | 10:45am
Morgan Is My Name Is a Furious, Necessary Arthurian Origin Story By Lacy Baugher Milas June 13, 2023 | 10:40am
Lady Tan’s Circle of Women Highlights the Quiet Power of Female Friendship By Lacy Baugher Milas June 8, 2023 | 11:25am
Provocative Southern Noir Thriller All The Sinners Bleed Is S.A. Crosby’s Best Yet By Lacy Baugher Milas June 7, 2023 | 11:20am

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