Book Review: Dear Dairy by Steve Goldsmith
Steve Goldsmith’s Dear Dairy is an odd, tender, and frequently hilarious experiment in voice that wears its constraints proudly: each entry pairs a short, painfully specific slice of twelve-year-old Justin
Steve Goldsmith’s Dear Dairy is an odd, tender, and frequently hilarious experiment in voice that wears its constraints proudly: each entry pairs a short, painfully specific slice of twelve-year-old Justin
Mara Blake’s Modern Spirits is a warm, character-driven southern romance-thriller that folds family, identity, and a small Black queer community into an often tender, sometimes tense story about belonging and
Fifteen years after the fall of the heroes, the world has learned how to survive without them. Supervillains rule openly, former champions have faded into obscurity, and the idea of
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Jeremy Bender — a part-time writer, full-time dad, and long-time student of religion and folklore — invites readers into Twin Rivers, a visceral, idea-driven novel where a theocratic city worships
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Elain Hilton’s Tortured Heart plunges the reader into an uncompromising urban-fantasy landscape where ogres, vampires, witches, and fallen-angel bloodlines collide in blood and ash. The novel opens with Grunt—nicknamed Stonefist—holding
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