Karen Herbert’s sophomore novel, The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall, is a delightful, almost sitcom-style mystery about the residents, staff, and animals of the titular …
Book review: The Cast Aways of Harewood Hall
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Book review: The Stellar Snow Job by Marie Howalt
Marie Howalt’s The Stellar Snow Job is the first novella in the Colibri Investigations series. It follows Richard Hart, an ex-military private investigator, and his …
Book review: The Brink by Holden Sheppard
Adolescents reach the terrifying edge of everything they’ve ever known in Holden Sheppard’s The Brink Holden Sheppard’s sophomore novel The Brink is a tension-filled, hormone-fuelled, …
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An exploration of the spaces and boundaries between digital and physical selves. Grace Chan’s sci fi debut novel Every Version of You uses a simple …
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A lush dark fairy tale set in Slatter’s Sourdough world. The Path of Thorns begins with the arrival of our heroine, Asher Todd, at the …
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A slow-burning, Shakespeare-drenched, dark academia mystery. ML Rio’s If We Were Villains was first published in 2017 but has recently surged in popularity thanks to …
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Gallant (2022) by V.E. Schwab is a gothic YA novel about Olivia Prior, an orphan who has grown up at Merilance girls’ school. Olivia is …
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