In Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata peels back the layers of modern detachment and reconfigures them into something stranger, lonelier, and oddly beautiful. This isn’t dystopians the way we’ve come to expect it. There are no flaming cities or rebel uprisings, no rigid authoritarianism. Instead, Murata offers something quieter and more terrifying: a future that’s already…
The Quarry Girls by Jess Lourey doesn’t ease you in. It grabs you by the collar and drops you into 1970s Pantown, a town where fear clings to every sidewalk and girls go missing without warning. On the surface, it’s all small-town charm and summer nights. But something’s rotting beneath that perfectly constructed facade, and…
If you’re looking for a story that crawls under your skin and stays there, The Last Party by A.R. Torre delivers. You’ll never look at a birthday party — or a mother’s smile — the same way again. Perla Wultz has everything a picture-perfect suburban life should come with: a successful husband, a bright daughter,…
Gregg Dunnett’s Little Ghosts digs deep under the skin and lingers, festering. Months after finishing the book, you’ll still think of this rare thriller, not because it’s loud or over the top, but because it’s rooted in something far more powerful — the emotional wreckage of grief. What begins as a quiet exploration of a…
Forget screaming final girls and frantic escape plans. In The September House by Carissa Orlando, Margaret Hartman — Maggie — does what any sensible woman would do when her dream home starts bleeding: she scrubs the floors, makes polite conversation with the ghosts, and keeps the place running. She’s finally got what she always wanted:…
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins is the fifth book in The Hunger Games series, the second book if you read them in chronological order, but more importantly, it’s a cleverly written, emotionally traumatizing novel that reconceptualizes the original trilogy in ways that fans could never have dreamed possible … Reaping Day Sunrise on…
It’s taken me far too long to find the time to read Kim Liggett’s young-adult dystopian novel, The Grace Year. But I’m extremely glad that I did, because the truth of the matter is, we live in societies where equality is a fabulous notion we all pretend exists when, in fact, it doesn’t … The…
Renowned criminal profiler, Micki Pistorius, is a household name in South Africa if you follow true crime in any way, shape, or form. As someone who follows quite a bit of true crime, both local and international, I was familiar with her work. However, it wasn’t until I watched the TV series based on her…
