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The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Review
Sometimes you finish a book and immediately move on to the next one. And sometimes you finish a book and it just sits in your head for days. The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones is very much the second type. This book completely wrecked my head. It’s a story about consequences, guilt, and revenge. But it’s also about culture, identity, and the weight of the past. The horror in this novel doesn’t just come from violence or supernatural elements. It comes from the emot
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Mar 242 min read


Black Flame by Gretchen Fleker-Martin Review
This was an incredibly intense and difficult book to process. The themes it deals with are heavy, confronting, and often deeply uncomfortable. At its heart, this book is about identity, trauma, and the ways people are shaped and damaged by the world around them. One of the most striking elements of the novel is its exploration of LGBTQ identity and the pressures placed on queer people by both society and family. The characters are navigating a world that is openly hostile to
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Mar 62 min read


The Serpent Dance by Sofia Slater Review
A crime novel that wanders into folk thriller.
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Mar 62 min read


We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer Review
Some horror fiction relies on monsters. Some rely on violence. Some rely on making you question what’s actually real. We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer falls firmly into that last category. This book is creepy, unsettling, and genuinely imaginative. The premise is incredibly simple. A couple are renovating their new house when a family shows up at the door asking if they can look around. One of them claims to have grown up there and just wants to show the place to their
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Mar 62 min read
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