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cover of Workhorse, a dark-haired girl with a red coat

“A friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend who bleeds is better”

Workhorse (2025) by Caroline Palmer

December 31, 2025 by drmllz 2 Comments

It’s been a weird year–a lot of work stress, some painful if not acute health stuff,  a lot of messy emotional knots, or perhaps unraveling, a lot of therapy, and reader’s block. But in the last days of the dying year, I did two things I have not done for a long time, one of which was stay up most of the night to finish a book. And that book was Caroline Palmer’s Workhorse, which I picked up in hardback on Christmas Eve because I […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Caroline Palmer, cbr17, coming-of-age, drmllz, magazines, Media, new york

drmllz's CBR17 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Caroline Palmer, cbr17, coming-of-age, drmllz, magazines, Media, new york ·
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