Newly released this month, Alexis Henderson’s young adult debut, When I Was Death, brings the author’s signature fantastical horror to a meditation on grief and coming of age. In the year since protagonist Roslyn lost her sister, Adeline, she’s almost completely disconnected from her life. The mysterious circumstances surrounding Adeline’s loss have cast an even longerRead More
A Caravan of Teenage Grim Reapers: When I Was Death by Alexis Henderson Review
A year after her sister, Adeline, dies under mysterious circumstances, a ragtag group of teenage girls descend upon Roslyn Volk’s small Midwestern town and make her an offer that she can’t refuse in Alexis Henderson’s When I Was Death. The girls (Naomi, Skye, Riley, Iona, Chloe, and the enigmatic Shiloh, who catches Roslyn’s eye from theRead More
Steamy Romance With a Side of Small-Town Conflict: Can’t Resist Her by Kianna Alexander
Summer has moved back to Austin, Texas, after years away in college and teaching in California, and she finds out that the school her grandmother founded is imminently being gentrified. She goes to the site to walk down memory lane—and maybe take some souvenirs—and runs into an old high school crush she’d had a missedRead More
Vampires Living in Symbiosis: Loving Safoa by Liza Wemakor Review
Loving Safoa by Liza Wemakor begins in 1999 in New York, takes the reader back to Ghana in 1799, and finally presents a vision for the future, all in the space of a novella. Cynthia, a human, is in a committed relationship with the vampire Safoa. After eight years together, she still hasn’t learned about howRead More
An Aching and Cathartic Coming of Age Story: Come Home to My Heart by Riley Redgate
Come Home to My Heart by Riley Redgate is one of those books I absolutely ached over. Having written some of my favorite young adult contemporary novels–Final Draft and Look No Further–Riley Redgate is an auto-read author for me and I was thrilled to see she had a new novel coming out. (With a cover by Tillie Walden, one ofRead More
The Queer Historical Broom-Racing Comic You Didn’t Know You Needed: Brooms by Jasmine Walls, illustrated by Teo Duvall
I got the recommendation for Brooms, written by Jasimine Walls and illustrated by Teo Duvall, off of a random list of graphic novels to buy your teens for Christmas, and I couldn’t believe that it’s been out since 2023 and I hadn’t heard of it! It’s so exactly up my alley. Now, I am bringing it to yourRead More
Southern Gothic Horror Meets Sapphic Romance in On Sundays She Picked Flowers
On Sundays She Picked Flowers is Yah-Yah Scholfield’s incredible southern gothic horror debut. Middle-aged protagonist Judith Rice flees her childhood home, desperate to escape the grasp of her abusive mother. Without a plan or resources, she lands in a tiny town in southern Georgia and there is offered refuge. Jude takes shelter in a dilapidated plantation,Read More
An Atmospheric, Otherworldly, and Sinister Experience: The Salvage by Anbara Salam Review
Courtesy notice to readers: Anbara Salam’s 2025 The Salvage is a haunted novel. Read with care. All playful warnings aside, I hope you’re into slow, creeping dread, because this book is absolutely dripping with it. Set in the early 1960s, on the isolated, insular Scottish island of Cairnroch, The Salvage immediately plunges readers into the icy, freezing waters ofRead More
A Sweet Chef Romance: Taste the Love by Karelia & Fay Stetz-Waters Review
As January is always freezing where I live, I turned to a heartwarming contemporary romance: Taste the Love by (to my delight) wife duo Karelia & Fay Stetz-Waters. On the day they graduated from culinary school, Kia Jackson and Alice Sullivan’s rivalry culminated in a kiss. Their careers led them down separate paths, but sixRead More
A Bi4Bi F/M Office Romance: Sparks Fly by Zakiya N. Jamal Review
Stella is in her late twenties and inexperienced in sex, but she wants to change that. Going to a sex club, she has a steamy encounter with a gorgeous stranger, but still hasn’t traded in her “v-card.” Cut to the next day at work, where the company she works for is introducing a new AIRead More
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