Cascading Petals

 In Jane C. Brady’s YA novel Cascading Petals, our protagonist’s name is Jewel Hart, which tells you everything about how charming…

Empyrean

Empyrean, the third book in Jim Cronin’s Brin Archives series, invites readers into the middle of interstellar conflict for a…

Scars

In Eliza Bates' new novel Scars, when drunken hotel heir Luke Klein bumps into underemployed waitress Anabelle Cahill, he convinces her…

Fire On The Track

I'm a runner, in the sense that I run regularly. I'm not particularly fast or particularly good at it, it's…

Sour Pricks

In the short story collection Sour Pricks, Mari Reiza introduces us to dark or dreary turning points in life, to…