The Grave Tender

The Grave Tender

Review The Grave Tender is a haunting and beautifully woven southern gothic about a broken family and the love that binds them together. The story starts slow as the story…
A Parent’s Guide to Video Games

A Parent’s Guide to Video Games

Review A Parent’s Guide to Video Games provides a simple guide about video games and the countless studies surrounding gaming and its social and cultural influences. The book covers a…
Tender

Tender

Review Tender is an unnerving story of societal expectations of women, jealousy, control, and madness. I was completely engrossed in reading the story and flew through it in one sitting.…
Beasts Made of Night

Beasts Made of Night

Review I feel like such an asshole for not liking this book. The premise for this novel is so good and I was excited to pick it up. The book…
Little Lies

Little Lies

Review It seems like I either love or hate Gudenkauf's work and there is rarely any in-between. She has a reoccurring theme of females investigating crimes and having access to…
If the Duke Demands

If the Duke Demands

Review You ever read a book that you are initially dazzled by, and then slowly grow more disappointed until the end when the plot comes crashing down? Oh, how I…
The Future

The Future

Review So I discovered Hilborn's work after watching him perform The Future a couple of years back and the poem had stayed with me ever since. I sought out more…
Cabbage

Cabbage

Review Strange and fantastical, Cabbage feels like a dark fairy tale bursting with magic. An old man lovingly plants a dream garden for his ailing wife, but the garden becomes…
Waif

Waif

Review This novella has reminded me what I love about horror - a genre full of stories that are dark, challenging, and transgressive, able to examine the worst of humanity.…
Helium

Helium

Review Goodness gracious Helium was such a breath of fresh air. Francisco writes with a voice that is down to earth and full of so much truth about life today…