The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne by Ron Currie
Ron Currie takes a big swing right at the start of his 2025 novel, The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne. The book begins with a prequel spanning 300 years in the life of the Levesque family, Franco-Americans who settle in Waterville, Maine. For generations, the women of the Levesque line encounter … [Read more]
The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
The Stone Sky is the third and last installment in the Broken Earth Trilogy. This book is split between Essun and Nassun in the current day and Hoa in the past, which gives us context for how we got to where we are. We know that Essun and Nassun are on a collision course of sorts - they have the … [Read more]
The House of a Thousand Lanterns by Victoria Holt
Jane Leslie never dreamt when she first heard of the House of a Thousand Lanterns that she might one day live there, or that it might end up being the death of her. This is another somewhat lackluster Victoria Holt gothic romance rescued by the quality of her writing and the strong main … [Read more]
Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age by Ibram X. Kendi
Conspiracy theories hit differently depending on where you live in the world. The more outlandish ones; the moon landings were faked, we're all being ruled by lizard people with orange fake tan; live in the West. In most of the Global South, conspiracy theories about government coups aren't … [Read more]
Katabasis by R. F. Kuang
What do you do when your graduate advisor dies, but you still need a letter of recommendation? Apparently, you travel to Hell to retrieve his soul and his recommendation along with it. Rivals Alice Law and Peter Murdoch are Cambridge graduate students studying Magick. When a spell gone awry kills … [Read more]
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter: A Novel by Stephen Graham Jones
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter is a wild and bloody novel, and I’ve never read anything quite like it. Stephen Graham Jones takes the vampire story into new territory - late 19th and early 20th century Montana, the Western frontier where whites are violently encroaching and native peoples find their … [Read more]
