Five boys meet and unite, drawn together by their innate spirit of defiance and determination, while each harbors secrets too horrible to mention that will gradually be revealed, in The Buzz Boys by novelist Edward Izzi, a powerful look at abuse [...]
Take a raucous ride through endless space, dark humor, and epic strangeness with The Doomsday Machine (Space Scrap 17 Book 1), a wild debut novel from Erick Drake. Magicians, alien war machines, spiteful coalescing gods, and one fearless scrap scavenger collide [...]
A skillfully layered whodunit created by mystery writer Edward Izzi, When a Rook Takes the Queen arrays multiple dirty deeds and numerous potential suspects in the chaotically crime-worn city of Chicago. The city’s first black, female, and openly gay mayor, Janice [...]
This novel sort of does you in. That could be the whole review, if I did not write reviews for a living. It's like when you are served a cup of coffee and you get tea, and it tastes weird, although [...]
A faux-autobiographical story of a frustrated middle-aged writer and his pending breakdown explores despotism in all its forms. This offering from British novelist Hari Kunzru pulls at the threads of a crumbling world to discover we've been in this special hell [...]
Claire Fuller's disturbing new novel about life on the edge of society, Longlisted for the Women's Prize For Fiction 2021, delivers a new side to the English writer in this pared-back story of destitute siblings finding their way. Fuller has always [...]
Author and music journalist Edwin Ammerlaan brings readers on the tour of a lifetime with Lost Souls: A Fictional Journey Through 50 Years of Pink Floyd. This magical slice of history collides a fictional protagonist with real-life rock stars and celebrities, [...]
An homage to fatherhood, history, and America's beloved pastime, Shadows of Swayne Field by Ronald R. Harrington is a masterful journey of memory and a nostalgic adventure into the past. Family secrets and paternal legacies give this book a looming sense [...]
A. SkoroBogáty's motivating origin story from ancient sources twists established mythology and explores traditions of worship, gods, and legend in his evocative Enok and the Womb of Gods. This epic fantasy explores politics, power, and belief in an ancient world, with [...]
A riveting reflection on life, loss, service, and sacrifice, Playing Soldier by F. Scott Service is an original and intense memoir that shakes up one's assumptions of a soldier's life before, during, and after a conflict. The majority of this book [...]