book reviews Review: Lucky Day August 22, 2025 / January 26, 2026 by Eddie M. | Leave a Comment Lucky Day is a wild, existential horror‑thriller that throws you head‑first into the absurd. Vera, a brilliant bisexual statistics professor, is haunted by a world‑shattering “Low‑Probability Event” that kills eight million people in bizarre, improbable ways. Her grip on meaning vanishes—until Special Agent Layne, part of a shadowy government commission, turns her world around by recruiting […] Read more » LGBTQ Sci-Fi Thriller
book reviews Review: The Macabre August 20, 2025 / August 22, 2025 by nikatichi Author – Kosoko Jackson Delightfully dark while shining light on empathy, family, and selflessness, “The Macabre” isn’t specifically horror, or a gorefest of any kind, but some of the scenes depicted made my skin crawl. It’s a blend of Fantasy and Horror with several unforgettable moments. Unfortunately, while the story and characters were fun, it […] Read more » blackauthors booktok fantasy horror horror fantasy lgbtq authors
book reviews Review: “The Resurrectionist” August 20, 2025 / August 22, 2025 by nikatichi Author – Kathleen S. Allen “What exactly would happen when someone was resurrected? Would they lose their souls? Would they become less of a person?” “I had set out to conquer death, and instead became its best patron” Kathleen S. Allen makes it very clear that Mary Shelley is a direct inspiration, but “The Resurrectionist” […] Read more » Gothic horror young adult
book reviews Review: Hemlock & Silver August 19, 2025 / September 27, 2025 by Star Cat Books Part mystery, part very slight romance, part quite intricate and fascinating fantasy, and part horror. This book drew me in and I couldn’t stop reading. Read more » fantasy mystery
book reviews REVIEW: The Adventures of Mary Darling by Pat Murphy August 17, 2025 / August 17, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Mary Darling is not the prim & proper young mother society and her neighbors thing she is. Mary Darling, for instance, belongs to a weekly “exercise” session for “umbrellas” (read: sabers) with other women like her. When she and her husband, George, who fecklessly left their giant protective dog Nanna tied outside while they went […] Read more » Fairy tale fantasy
book reviews An Unusual Take on a Fairy Tale We All Know and Love August 7, 2025 / August 16, 2025 by Star Cat Books Mary Darling is an alumnus of living with Peter Pan. She is not the prim proper Victorian lady: she is one kickass woman. Wesley the bookstore cat was also enthralled by the book and helped me read it. Read more » Fairy tale science fiction
book reviews REVIEW: Wish Upon a K-Star by Kat Cho March 26, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Emily Fleischer | Leave a Comment When you wish upon a K-Star, all your dreams come true. In this charming YA novel, up-and-coming K-drama star Shin Hyderi must pretend to date her former teenage crush and enormous K-Pop Idol Moon Minseok. Cho explores the darker side of fame with a Korean pop culture background–one of the most notoriously intense fame machines […] Read more » Romance
Audio books book reviews REVIEW: Three Days in June by Anne Tyler February 11, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment This lovely little novel centers around Gail Blaine — mother, ex-wife, suddenly unemployed educator — and three days surrounding her daughter’s (Debbie) wedding. And her ex, Max, who shows up unannounced for said wedding, expecting to stay at Gail’s house. With a cat. Not his, he claims, but a foster; does Gail mind that the […] Read more » Fiction
Audio books book reviews REVIEW: Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid January 31, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Mae Vincent The writer of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones and the Six has done it again! Atmosphere is so well done, it’s a gorgeous portrait of NASA’s space shuttle program in the 80s that manages to be entertaining, emotional, and downright gorgeous. The story was told in a creative and captivating way, […] Read more » Fiction LGBTQA Romance Space
book reviews REVIEW: The Daughter of Auschwitz: The Girl Who Lived to Tell Her Tale, by Tova Friedman January 25, 2025 / August 7, 2025 by Star Cat Books | Leave a Comment Tova Friedman here recounts her own story as one of the youngest children to survive Auschwitz’s during the Holocaust, framed as a retelling to a friend she has met and trusts in New York, after World War II. The book is an ostensibly middle reader version of Friedman’s adult book of the same, told from […] Read more » children's books Holocaust Middle Reader
