Category: Finished Copy
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Review: THE BRIGHT LANDS by John Fram
Thank you to Hanover Square Press for my free copy. If you haven’t read my interview with John Fram on Tor Nightfire, click here – he’s the cat’s pajamas! Description: The town of Bentley holds two things dear: its football, and its secrets. But when star quarterback Dylan Whitley goes missing, an unremitting fear grips…
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Review: THE GOLDEN CAGE by Camilla Läckberg
Thank you so much Knopf and Abby from Crime by the Book for my free copy. Description: Faye has loved Jack since they were students at business school. Jack, the perpetual golden boy, grew up wealthy, unlike Faye, who has worked hard to bury a dark past. When Jack needs help launching a new company,…
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Review: SAVING RUBY KING by Catherine Adel West
Thank you so much Park Row Books for my free copy. Description: When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it’s a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent…
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Review: THE SUN DOWN MOTEL by Simone St. James
Thank you so much Berkley Publishing for my free copy. Description: Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something…
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Review: OONA OUT OF ORDER by Margarita Montimore
Thank you so much Book Sparks and Flatiron for my free copy. Description: It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or…
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Review: ANNA K by Jenny Lee
Thank you so much Book Sparks and Flatiron for my free copy. Description: At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and dogs); she has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend, Alexander W.; and she has always made her Korean-American father…
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Review: SKINWRAPPER by Stephen Kozeniewski
Thank you Night Worms and Sinister Grin Press for my free copy. Description: A single word strikes fear into the hearts of even the most experienced starship crews…Aboard the freighter Blue Whale, a young girl’s day begins like any other: texting her friends while her parents bicker about breakfast. Then, with a loud, sickening pop,…
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Review: WHISPERS IN THE DARK by Laurel Hightower
Thank you to the Night Worms and JournalStone Publishing for my free copy. Description: Rose McFarland is a trained killer–a Memphis S.W.A.T. sniper with a secret. Her team knows about the burn scars that lurk under her clothes, a legacy of the house fire that killed her father and brother sixteen years before. Her supervisors…
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Review: DOCILE by K.M. Szpara
Thank you so much Tor Books for my free copy. Description: There is no consent under capitalism. To be a Docile is to be kept, body and soul, for the uses of the owner of your contract. To be a Docile is to forget, to disappear, to hide inside your body from the horrors of…
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Review: THE SOUTHERN BOOK CLUB’S GUIDE TO SLAYING VAMPIRES by Grady Hendrix
Thank you so much Quirk Books for my free copy. Description: Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her…