I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Fear makes individuals see omens in places they shouldn’t…” (Ly 134). In the magical world of Lanilia, Rhys awakens on the shore of a Mernese estuary with no memory and strange wounds on his back. The protector of the estuary, a mermaid named …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “After all, libraries are for everyone,” (Berman Ghan, “Spectres of Biblioteca,” 19). The Library Cosmic is a collection of science fiction stories travelling through time and space asking readers about community, togetherness, identity, technology, and where we fit in all of it. Is …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “air escapes lungs / death punctuates / the body, this isn’t the scary part. / loving is. losing someone she loves is,” (panic wrap III, French 162). O and Z find each other during an acid rain storm becoming travelling companions and lovers …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Charity is not a bone thrown to a hungry dog. Charity is a bone shared with a dog when you are both hungry. And loneliness is a kind of hunger,” (Welch 242). After an earthquake shakes the Pacific Coast of North America, animals …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “What could he do if he let himself get lost in an image?” (Hartwell 75). Teenager Dieter lives with his grandfather in a small town in southern Quebec with only his best friend K to give him company. But when K abandons him …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Why did it scare her so? She was a fighter, an independent woman with a successful profession, not house bound like her mother had been, and all the female generations before. And yet, the Stong family lineage held her captive,” (Grundy 163). Right before …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Fear is what makes people behave badly,” (Smythe 198). Samara and J. have only started their relationship when they go off to visit J.’s hometown of Upton Bay, a smalltown where tourists visit and the wealthy live. Sam has been hired to write a …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Would it be like that with her? When she died, would her loved ones be told to move on?…She wondered this for weeks. She wondered if this was why people worshipped God, why she herself was attracted to that devotion. God the eternal, …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. “Every day, I want to reach / inside my chest, dig my fingers in, / and pull my rubs apart: / let me breathe / until I burst,” (“Ritual for Release,” Bates-Hardy, 9). In Anatomical Venus, Courtney Bates-Hardy writes a collection of poetry where she takes …
I received this book from River Street Writing in exchange for an honest review. After her grandmother dies, Kate Galway can’t help but thinking of her beloved aunt’s suicide fifty years before. No one on Meredith Island can forget it, not when Emma was so loved and had such a bright future ahead of her. While clearing …
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