Once upon a broken heart – Stephanie Garber
For as long as she can remember, Evangeline Fox has believed in true love and happy endings . . . until she learns that the love of her life will marry another. Desperate to stop the wedding and to heal her wounded heart, Evangeline strikes a deal with the charismatic, but wicked, Prince of Hearts.…
The Dream of Gerontius – John Henry Newman
I watched The Choral the other day and I must say I fell in love with a piece of poetry by John Henry Newman Farewell, but not for ever! brother dear,Be brave and patient on thy bed of sorrow;Swiftly shall pass thy night of trial here,And I will come and wake thee on the morrow.…
Han Kang – Human Acts
From the award-winning author of The Vegetarian comes a riveting and poetic examination of humanity at its most appalling, and its most hopeful. “It happened in Gwangju just as it did on Jeju Island, in Kwantung and Nanking, in Bosnia, and all across the American continent when it was still known as the New World,…
The Night Sister (Jennifer McMahon) 2026 Re-read
I accidentally re-read this book due to me being disorganized and I only realized it when the two girls put on a show involving their pet chicken for their guests. On the bright side, I didn’t remember how the book ended, just that the sisters were somehow involved and one of them was definitely dead.…
Sarah Lotz – Missing person or the story of the web sleuths
They are a group of misfits who go online for fun. Their hobby is giving names to the missing dead. But a killer is online with them, and his game is in deadly earnest . . . Shaun Ryan’s brother, Teddy, died in 1989. Only he didn’t. Looking through his grievously ill mother’s personal effects,…
Between Two Fires – Christopher Buehlman
Hell yeah! Finally a medieval horror book that is so unconventional it is still talked about on the r/horrorlit subreddit. The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas…
Motanul Care A Salvat Biblioteca – Sosuke Natsukawa
Grandpa used to say it all the time: ‘books have tremendous power’. But what is that power really? Natsuki Books was a tiny second-hand bookshop on the edge of town. Inside, towering shelves reached the ceiling, every one crammed full of wonderful books. Rintaro Natsuki loved this space that his grandfather had created. He spent…
Dope * Sara Gran
They say once you’ve been an addict your biology is never the same. All your cells are so used to junk that they’ll never quite get over it. They’ll always crave dope. I’d never believed that before, but I believed it now. Because even though I’d been clean for two years, and I knew there…
Unbury Carol * Josh Malerman
This book is what happens when you have a good idea but a terrible execution – Unbury Carol was a solid meh for me and I abandoned it midway though as it became awfully predictable (a quick glance at the ending told me what I already suspected). The premise of the book is good. Carol…
After World by Debbie Urbanski – or how AI falls in love with a human (2023)
Man, this story was wild. We have a world where all humans are going extinct and AI is tasked in creating a story that will be kept in a Linux version of Earth Archives. The AI falls in love with the human they are following and they start a lesbian romance in a simulated world…
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