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THE SALT GROWS HEAVY | Cassandra Khaw 05.04.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. … Continue reading Book Review: The Salt Grows Heavy
THE SCOURGE BETWEEN STARS | Ness Brown 04.04.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4.5/5 stars As acting captain of the starship Calypso, Jacklyn Albright is responsible for keeping the last of humanity alive as they limp back to Earth from their forebears’ failed colony on a distant planet. Faced with constant threats of starvation and destruction … Continue reading Book Review: The Scourge Between Stars
A HOUSE WITH GOOD BONES | T. Kingfisher 03.28.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 5/5 stars "Mom seems off." Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone. She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Sam's excited for this … Continue reading Book Review: A House With Good Bones
SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER | Lucy A. Snyder 02.21.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars A virus tears across the globe, transforming its victims in nightmarish ways. As the world collapses, dark forces pull a small group of women together. Erin, once quiet and closeted, acquires an appetite for a woman and her brain. Why does … Continue reading Book Review: Sister, Maiden, Monster
THE SPITE HOUSE | Johnny Compton 02.07.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he’s desperate for money. When he comes across the strange ad for the Masson … Continue reading Book Review: The Spite House
TELL ME I’M WORTHLESS | Alison Rumfitt 01.17.2023 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 3.5/5 stars Three years ago, Alice spent one night in an abandoned house with her friends, Ila and Hannah. Since then, Alice’s life has spiraled. She lives a haunted existence, selling videos of herself for money, going to parties she hates, drinking herself … Continue reading Book Review: Tell Me I’m Worthless
CERTAIN DARK THINGS | Silvia Moreno-Garcia 09.07.2021 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec … Continue reading Book Review: Certain Dark Things
LITTLE EVE | Catriona Ward 10.11.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 4/5 stars On the wind-battered isle of Altnaharra, off the wildest coast of Scotland, a clan prepares to bring about the end of the world and its imminent rebirth. The Adder is coming and one of their number will inherit its powers. They all want … Continue reading Book Review: Little Eve
ECHO| Thomas Olde Heuvelt 02.08.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 3/5 stars Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia—but … Continue reading Book Review: Echo
LUTE | Jennifer Marie Thorne 10.04.2022 | Tor Nightfire Rating: 5/5 stars On the idyllic island of Lute, every seventh summer, seven people die. No more, no less. Lute and its inhabitants are blessed, year after year, with good weather, good health, and good fortune. They live a happy, superior life, untouched by the war … Continue reading Book Review: Lute
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