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Yes, it is absolutely ludicrous to have a vigilante whose main weapon is a bowling ball, but he’s out there fighting neo-Nazis and we 100% need more of that nowadays! And it isn’t just some cut-and-dried good guy vs generic white nationalists story either. There’s a lot of nuance in this book, as well as …
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Happy October, readers! This month is all about the cozy, the creepy or the criminal, and maybe a little bit of all three! Our first selection for you is definitely on the cozier side, tho with a distinct frisson of crime. Juno Black’s Mockingbird Court is the last (at least for the foreseeable future) installment …
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subtitled 75 Mini Adventures to Empower Your Fantasy Campaign. I genuinely enjoy every Dungeonmeister product Jef Aldrich and Jon Taylor put out. A lot of this is due to the fact that I’m a busy Dungeon Master myself, so every little bit helps in bulking up my Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. This is especially true …
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I didn’t super love the book for which this novella is a sequel. The Chosen And The Beautiful was Nghi Vo’s somewhat uneven, I felt, retelling of The Great Gatsby. But I do enjoy Ms Vo’s writing, as well as the novella form, so was happy to dive in here. Don’t Sleep With The Dead …
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Readers who’ve already enjoyed Book 1 will likely warm up to this quicker than I did, but once I realized this wasn’t just escapist (sub)urban fantasy, I was all in! The Lizard Boy series revolves around the titular middle schooler, Tommy Tomkins, who fled with his mom and older sister Tiffany from the underground realm …
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Hello, dear readers! We’ve officially entered that time of year where it’s chilly in the morning but sweltering in the afternoon, at least over here in Maryland. So what better time to check out other mystifying North American scenarios such as those brought to us in Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes’ upcoming America’s Most …
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Containing graphic adaptations of City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room. When I was in my 20s, I dated a guy who loved Haruki Murakami and Paul Auster. Those weren’t the reasons I dumped him, but they should have been signs. And it’s not like I didn’t try my darnedest either! I did get …
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or some (honestly quite excellent) combination of the three. Listen, I read a lot of gossip and entertainment magazines. It’s a running joke in my trivia circles that I get the vast majority of my news from Us Weekly and Variety. So, as an adult, I am tamping down all the salacious details I know …
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Hunh, I think Edgar Allan Poe might be the one writer — if not one person outright — of whom I’ve read the most biographies. And certainly, what a wealth of material and mystery there is surrounding one of the most famous writers to ever live! From a life marked with more than its fair …
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In a world of increasing geopolitical cynicism, fueled by the atrocities of the military-industrial complex, a debut geopolitical novel asks: what if war wasn’t a tragedy, but a business model? That’s the question that author Jack Brown posits in his high-stakes thriller Prophets of War, as he explores the intersection of ambition, ideology, war and …
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