The Red Winter is a dark historical fantasy that blends folklore, history, and horror into a brutal retelling of the legend of the Beast of Gévaudan. In 1785, Professor Sebastian Grave receives word that the infamous Beast, thought to have been killed decades earlier, has returned to terrorize the French countryside. A monster hunter with…
Category: 4 Star Reads
The Correspondent
Seventy-three-year-old Sybil Van Antwerp, a woman who makes sense of the world through the letters she writes each morning. Through correspondence with friends, family, authors, and even institutions, Sybil reveals her sharp wit and reflective nature while quietly keeping the people who love her at a distance. When letters from someone tied to a painful…
How to Get Away with Murder
How to Get Away with Murder is a clever debut thriller that blends a traditional murder investigation with a chilling meta twist. After six months away from work recovering from a breakdown, Scotland Yard detective Samantha Hansen returns to duty when a fourteen-year-old girl is found murdered in a local park. The only clue is…
Muscles & Monsters
Tegan literally runs into Atlas (a wolven who owns a gym) and ends up enlisting his help moving a cake, after a wedding cake disaster leaves her scrambling for her backup cake. After their chaotic meet-cute, she ends up joining his gym, Leviathan Fitness, where training sessions, lingering glances, and growing attraction quickly turn into…
Nothing Tastes as Good
Nothing Tastes as Good is a weird, dark, and emotionally unnerving horror-thriller that lingers long after you finish it. Retail worker Emmett Truesdale has never fit the Southern California ideal—over three hundred pounds, carrying childhood trauma and generational ennui, he’s stuck in a dead-end job and lonely love life. Desperate, he joins a clinical trial for…
Cloud Nine
Cloud Nine kicks off Amanda Sinatra’s Snowy Peak series with full-on winter sports romance energy. Set against the icy slopes of Vermont, this enemies-to-lovers story is perfect for anyone craving snow, rivalry, and that slow-burn romantic tension that makes you swoon. The story follows Hannah St. Pierre, a photographer who’s sworn off men after her last relationship collapsed…
The Girls Before
The Girls Before is a chilling, slow-burn thriller that intertwines two haunting storylines: a woman trapped in a dark room (“below”) and a search-and-rescue expert (“above”) haunted by her ex–best friend’s disappearance years earlier. As Audrey uncovers evidence suggesting a missing runaway may be tied to a powerful local family, the novel peels back decades of…
Nowhere Burning
Set in the unforgiving maw of the Rocky Mountains, Nowhere Burning is Catriona Ward’s latest unsettling novel, blending isolation, cult dynamics, and simmering menace in a story that will appeal to fans of Yellowjackets. When Riley flees her uncle’s home with her younger brother to the ruins of an infamous movie star’s ranch, rumored to house feral children,…
So Old, So Young
So Old, So Young hooked me right away. The premise is strong, the writing is sharp, and so much of it immediately felt familiar. Grant Ginder does an excellent job capturing that millennial space between feeling young and realizing you’re suddenly not, especially when it comes to friendships and the passage of time. As a full-time…
Anatomy of an Alibi
Two women, Camille Bayliss and Aubrey Price switch lives for twelve hours to uncover secrets tied to Camille’s suspicious husband, Benjamin Bayliss. When Benjamin is found murdered the next morning, both women need an airtight alibi but only one of them has it. With timelines tangled and identities blurred, one wrong move could unravel everything….