Updated on October 9, 2026 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 ferocious, beautifully written Southern Gothic about a Black woman remaking herself in a haunted Georgia house, with a dangerous sapphic love at its centre … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 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 1928 boarding-school ghost story with a genuinely queasy sense of rot and a sharp, self-deceiving narrator, let down by a slow first half and … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 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 … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 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 ferociously voiced, genuinely inventive queer space retelling of Moby-Dick, undercut by the same digressions, drift and doom that make the original a hard read … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 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 lush, fiercely voiced reclamation of Egypt’s last pharaoh with genuine emotional weight and a superb audiobook, undercut by a narrator who foreshadows everything and … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A funny, bruising, grown-up sapphic novel about a fifty-six-year-old therapist finally dealing with the woman who broke her at university, with a gentle slow burn at its centre, held … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Verdict: A cool, cinematic Swedish doppelgänger novel with a genuinely eerie premise and prose the critics adore, undercut by deliberate confusion, blank characters and an ending that leaves most readers … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 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 cult French novel of the 1990s Paris lesbian techno scene with a genuinely electric sense of place and sound, undercut by a repetitive middle, … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 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 beautifully written, decades-spanning love story between two women that lands as the emotional gut-punch it promises, undercut by a central pair some readers never … Read more
Updated on October 9, 2026 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 claustrophobic 1965 Irish gothic about grief, secrets and one woman’s consuming fixation on her married neighbour, written in prose even its detractors admire, held … Read more