First, let me get my unbridled enthusiasm out of the way. I loved this book. You will love this book. You should just go buy this book. Why waste time with my fancy words? Throw your money at Sarah Gailey as soon as you possibly can.
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After falling out of love with Stephen King, I often credit Paul Tremblay as the author who got me back into contemporary horror fiction with his novel A Headful of Ghosts (still my favourite of his books). This is the first time I've been able to read an ARC of his, and I was very excited.
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Every so often, a dark weird little book comes along that gladdens my blackened heart. This has certainly been the case with Leech by Hiron Ennes. Crossing multiple genres -- horror, sci-fi, dystopia, climate fiction, gothic, fantasy -- Leech is a difficult book to pin down, but I shall do my very best.
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Being one of five half-siblings (seven, if you count my half-siblings’ half-siblings), a story about the dynamics that occur when you’re related but spend a lot of time apart from your closest family struck especially close to the bone. The Birdcage by Eve Chase is about the daughters of famed artist, Charlie Finch, […]
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Set in a world where everyone has a dual personality that experiences only the day or the night, Equinox is a mystery set in a fantastical second world. We follow Special Inspector Christophor Morden and his day brother, Alexsander, […]
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Although Ward has been putting out amazing horror titles for seven years, she is perhaps now best known for The Last House on Needless Street. The book last year took the horror/thriller reading community by storm and performed that 'transcendence of the genre' which all publishers love to see, […]
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The introductory note from the author in a work of fiction is, quite often, something I skim over or forget immediately after reading. However, David Whitton's fun blurb on the weirdness of secret services operations was a perfect introduction to this book all about an operation that goes horribly wrong in a number of small ways. […]
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The intersection of mystery and technology is a real area of interest for me, and there are some authors doing brilliant things. There also seems to be a resurgence of love for the epistolary novel (including Hallett's first novel, The Appeal), taking advantage of the many and varied ways social groups contact each other these days using the written word. […]
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Sometimes spy novels can come off as a bit dry and full of their own importance. I'm not going to name any names, but the book I'm thinking of rhymes with Shmiley's Shmeeple. The same can be said of historical fiction, which ranges from the bodice ripper to the dry quasi-textbook. […]
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It is rare that I feel quite so under-qualified to review a book. While I do my best to read widely, I am aware that my interests are niche and among those niches, very British/North American-centric. I have not travelled far beyond Europe and North America, and I don't know as much about other cultures as I should. […]
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Here at Books Outside the Box, we love a dystopia. We have recently included in our sub boxes Suicide Club by Rachel Heng and Dark Lullaby by Polly Ho-Yen. […]
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Video game nostalgia in fiction is becoming a big part of the zeitgeist. There is, of course, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline which received such a big budget recent movie adaptation, and several recent prize-winning novels that slowly reveal themselves to be simulations […]
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