When a video of Shelley Hu hitting her rock bottom goes viral, it upends her entire life. She loses her spot at Columbia Law, her highly coveted internship at a prestigious law firm, and any hope she once had of building a better life for herself and her mother. Shelley retreats to the town inRead More
An Unbreakable Code: The Obake Code by Makana Yamamoto
I reviewed Makana Yamamoto’s debut cyberpunk novel, Hammajang Luck, during last year’s Trans Rights Readathon (which is currently ongoing until the end of March). I enjoyed the book’s high-stakes heist and dystopian politics, so I was excited to pick up the standalone sequel, The Obake Code, especially as it stars one of my favorite characters from theRead More
Sci-Fi Meets Poetry: This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
Blue and Red are agents on opposing sides of an ongoing war through time travel. As they both find themselves tired of it all, they begin a clandestine correspondence, eventually falling in love. It’s a dangerous game they play, because if either one of their sides finds out, it could mean their deaths. Both takeRead More
Shakespeare, Study Hall, and Secrets Worth Killing Over: This Place Kills Me by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux
Wilberton Academy takes its theater seriously. Members of the elite Wilberton Theatrical Society are revered by the student body, and beautiful, talented Elizabeth Woodward is a shining star among them. The whole school is abuzz over the production of Romeo and Juliet that Elizabeth is starring in as the tragic leading lady—until she’s found dead the morningRead 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
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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