I’m very grateful to the Literary Review of Canada for reaching out to me to review Sarah Henstra’s newest novel The Lost Tarot. Read my full review on their Substack, Bookworm!
“I wish I imagined things less. I don’t know what’s real and what isn’t. I do think I am capable of doing something bad…I’m worried that at any moment, I am liable to be taken over by my parasite, and that I will hurt someone,” (Austin 43). Enid’s trying her best. She’s reconnecting with her estranged …
I’m very grateful to the Literary Review of Canada for reaching out to me to review Secret Sex ed. by Russell Smith. Read my full review on their website, or in print!
I received this book from The Next Best Book Club in exchange for an honest review. “The truth is, the truth is, the truth is, I am fertile with pain,” (Robinson 53, “The Rabbits”). The Ill-Fitting Skin is a fantastic short story collection! Most of the stories follow women in various stages of their lives: mothers, partners, young …
“The truth is I hate keep secrets. I always have. All they really do is tear people apart,” (Derrick 1). Eighteen-year-old Stevie and Nora have a deep, true, heart-stopping kind of love, and they also have a plan. In just a few weeks they’re going to leave their ultra-conservative town and their parents and move to …
“Forgetting was just another way of leaving, and everybody left eventually,” (Jackson 289). Sixteen-years-ago Rachel Price vanished, leaving her two-year-old daughter Bel in the backseat of their car with no memories of who took her. Now eighteen, Bel is a part of a documentary talking about the case and how Rachel’s disappearance has affected her, though …
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. “To grieve is to rot from the inside out,” (Pedersen). Estranged from his family for twenty-years, Nick Morrow returns to Stag Crossing, his family’s farmhouse in rural Nebraska, after receiving a call from his abusive father telling him he’s dying. But Nick isn’t the only …
I received this book from Simon and Schuster Canada in exchange for an honest review. “Now I’m coming to think that I don’t want anything to do with heroes, ever again,” (Beagle 162). Gaius Aurelius Constantine Heliogabalus Thrax (or Robert, as he prefers to be called) has taken over his recently deceased’s father’s dragon extermination business. In the …
“You can never win at playing the cis game. You can win on so much, but you will never win that…I hate that they make me choose. I hate it like I hate almost nothing else,” (Plett 125). Thirty-year-old Wendy Reimer’s Mennonite grandmother has just died. After an awkward funeral service, Wendy ends up learning that …
In The Book of Séances, Claire Goodchild examines the history of speaking with the dead and our fascination with the afterlife while also detailing the different ways in which a person can build a connection and communicate with spirits from beyond. I’m a bit of a fraidy cat when it comes to ghosts, so me purchasing …
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