This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A deadpan, deeply sympathetic novel about a depressed lesbian atheist faking her way through a job at a Catholic church, with a narrator readers recognise themselves in, undercut by a … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A genuinely brave YA Sleeping Beauty reimagining about depression and the pull of escape, with a dreamscape worth visiting, let down by prose so ornate that close to one reader … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A genuinely creepy summer-camp horror novel with one of the more careful portrayals of harm OCD in young adult fiction, held back by prose that says everything twice and an … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A lavish, politically sharp gothic vampire novel with some of the best sentences of the year, undercut by a glacial pace, a thin ensemble and a queer thread that belongs … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A tender, funny and genuinely devastating AIDS-era grief novel with a ghost-seeing lesbian narrator, undercut by a ghost-trapping caper subplot that readers and critics alike say never quite belongs to … Read more
This post contains affiliate links, including Amazon and Libro.fm. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A warm, low-angst Seattle coffee-shop romance with two genuinely well-drawn leads, undercut by a central relationship a lot of readers never quite believed. Best for: Readers who want a cozy, … Read more