Wild Reverence

by Rebecca Ross Wild Reverence is a slow-burning Romantacy story. For most of the book, we are schooled in a world of Gods, Goddesses, and Mortals. We have the Immortals of the Under Realm and the Immortals of the Skyward Realm, and poor Matilda’s parentage includes both… which leaves a young girl struggling with a…

Fox

by Joyce Carol Oats It took me a while to read this novel. Because of its VERY heavy subject matter, I had to take a good, long break between reading sessions. Not because it wasn’t incredibly engaging, but because I couldn’t sit with the incredibly “icky” feeling that would sit and grow in the pit…

Gone Tonight

by Sarah Pekkanen Is psychopathy hereditary? This is one of the questions readers will have whilst reading this novel. Ruth is keeping secrets. Secrets about her past. No one knows what she has done, not even her own daughter, Catherine. A catastrophic event happened when Ruth was still in high school, and she’s been on…

The Forest of Missing Girls

by Nichelle Giraldes This book is a creepy hybrid where young women go missing and the community comes together to track down their kidnapper, or worse yet a serial killer and a supernatural science fiction novel (I’d reference a novel in particular but then I would be hugely spoiling the plot).  The novel starts with…

The Devil in Oxford

Jess Armstrong The Devil in Oxford is the third novel in the Ruby Vaughn Mystery series. Full disclosure, I have not read the first two. The novel can be read as a stand alone, however as I read, I couldn’t help but feel as though I would have enjoyed it more if I knew some…

The Porcelain Menagerie

by Jillian Forsberg Full transparency, it took me a while to actually get “in” to his novel, but the sense of the extent of the research once I started reading, and the extensive research was impressive enough for me to stick with it.  The novel unfolds across two timelines. It opens in 1718, introducing Johann…

If Pets Wrote Poems

written by Susan Johnston Taylor and illustrated by Sandie Sonke Ok, I absolutely loved this book. Poetry isn’t a genre I normally gravitate towards, even though I admire poets greatly…I could never write a great poem; however, Susan Johnston Taylor has approached poetry in such a unique and entertaining way that I couldn’t help but…

Aurora’s Journey

By Kayla Williams Aurora’s Journey is a wonderful children’s book that beautifully presents the themes of coming of age, family, courage, and the importance of cultural wisdom.  Aurora is an Inuk child whose family leaves her to care for her grandmother while they go on a hunting trip. After nights of snowstorms and long after…

The Mad Wife

by Megan Church This novel drew me in and had my attention until I finished reading the final page. Written in first person, we are immersed in the life of Lulu, a housewife living in the 1950s. Lulu was once an aspiring photojournalist, filled with dreams and ambitions of her own. But upon meeting the…

What Stalks the Deep

by T. Kingfisher I’m beginning to really love the Sworn Soldier Series. I find our intrepid hero Alex Easton brave, highly intelligent, and wonderfully funny. They also have the most fascinating backstory, of which I would love to read more about (T Kingfisher, please write a novel about Alex’s childhood up until they become a…