Upgrade - Blake Crouch

Upgrade - Blake Crouch

Sci-Fi/Thriller

Rating: 8/10

Logan has spent his life stuck with an ordinary mind that longs to accomplish extraordinary things. Then one day he starts to feel…different. Sharper concentration, better multitasking, faster reading and retention. As if someone, or something, is sweeping the cobwebs from every corner of his brain. As the old adage goes…be careful what you wish for.

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Overnight Guest - Heather Gudenkauf

Overnight Guest - Heather Gudenkauf

Thriller

Rating: 6.5/10

True crime writer Wylie doesn’t mind being snowed in at the isolated farmhouse where she’s retreated to write her new book. Cozy fires, picturesque views and calming quiet. It would be perfect, if not for the fact that decades earlier a family was brutally murdered there, and a young girl disappeared without a trace. As the storm worsens, turns out that’s the least of it!

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We Sold Our Souls - Grady Hendrix

We Sold Our Souls - Grady Hendrix

Horror

Rating: 8/10

A dream come true for any horror and heavy metal fan. Although maybe nightmare is more accurate…but one you will be happy to stay asleep for. Years after the betrayal of the lead singer of her band, Kris is finally going to play again. But before she can get up on that stage she is going to have to battle demons, escape a cult like compound and chill out to Dolly Parton. Yeah, you read that right!

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Is It Hot In Here?

Romances To Keep The Temperature Up…

The Flatshare - Beth O’Leary

Beach Read - Emily Henry

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

How To Survive A Modern Day Fairytale - Elle Cruz

The Secret Bridesmaid - Katy Birchall

Rosaline Palmer Takes The Cake - Alexis Hall

The Marriage Game - Sara Desai

All The Feels - Olivia Dade

How To Marry Keanu Reeves In 90 Days - K.M. Jackson

Fated - Rebecca Zanetti

The Darkest Night - Gena Showalter

Pleasure Unbound - Larissa Ione

When Darkness Comes - Alexandra Ivy

Spellbound - Allie Therin

Last Wolf Standing - Rhyannon Byrd

Darkness Dawns - Dianne Duvall

Not The Witch You Wed - April Asher

Surrender - Stephanie Tyler

The Darkest Hour - Maya Banks

Midnight Rescue - Elle Kennedy

Danger In Numbers - Heather Graham

Naked In Death - J.D. Robb

Smoke In Mirrors - Jayne Ann Krentz

Murder List - Julie Garwood

Ricochet - Sandra Brown

To Die For - Linda Howard

How To Find A Princess - Alyssa Cole

One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston

Slippery Creatures - K.J. Charles

Honey Girl - Morgan Rogers

Last Night At The Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo

Criers War - Nina Vada

Paybacks A Witch - Lana Harper

Something Fabulous - Alexis Hall

Dark Flame - Kat Silver

Dark Lover - J. R. Ward

Guilty Pleasures - Laurel K. Hamilton

Soulless - Gail Carriger

Kiss Of Midnight - Lara Adrian

King of Battle & Blood - Scarlett St. Clair

Immortal Rising - Lynsay Sands

Blood Price - Tanya Huff

Devil Comes Courting - Courtney Milan

Lady’s Formula For Love - Elizabeth Everett

Flame In The Mist - Renee Ahdieh

Down Comes The Night - Allison Saft

Queen Of Coin & Whispers - Helen Corcoran

So This Is Love - Elizabeth Lum

Games In A Ballroom - Jenny Flint

(Re) Imagine That...

Retellings & Reimagining Of Fairy Tales…

Gilded - Marissa Meyer

Cinderella Is Dead - Kalynn Bayron

Unbury Carol - Josh Malerman

Girls Made Of Snow & Glass - Melissa Bashardoust

The Lunar Chronicles - Marrisa Meyer

The Wrath & The Dawn - Renee Ahdieh

Curse So Dark & Lonely - Brigid Kemmerer

Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik

All The Ever After’s - Danielle Teller

Crimson Bound - Rosamund Hodge

Beauty In Thorns - Kate Forsyth

Burning Roses - S.L. Huang

What Big Teeth - Rose Szabo

Lavinia - Ursula K. LeGuin

Circe - Madeline Miller

The Silence Of The Girls - Pat Barker

The Wolf Den - Elodie Harper

The Penelopiad - Margaret Atwood

Mythos - Stephen Fry

Labors Of Hercules - Agatha Christie

The Cold Is In Her Bones - Peternelle van Arsdale

Food For The Gods - Karen Dudley

Dark Wife - Sarah Diemer

The Mere Wife - Maria Dahvana Headly

Frankenstein In Baghdad - Ahmed Saddawi

These Violent Delights - Chloe Gong

The Diabolic - S.J. Kincaid

Queen Of Hearts - Colleen Oakes

The Historian - Elizabeth Kostova

Mists Of Avalon - Marion Zimmer Bradley

Ayesha At Last - Uzma Jalaluddin

My Plain Jane - Cynthia Hand

The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter

Merry Spinster - Mallory Daniel Ortberg

My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me - Kate Bernheimer

Kissing The Witch - Emma Donoghe

His Hideous Heart - Dahlia Adler

If We Were Villian s- M.L. Rio

Boy. Snow. Bird - Helen Oyeyemi

Master Mind Games...

Fool Me Once…

In reading there is nothing like the shiver that skims across the back of your neck when you realize nothing is as it seemed, that what you believed was the truth was an illusion all along. That it’s not just the people on the page that have fallen victim to gaslighting, it’s you the reader too. If you are prepared to be enthralled, confounded, and outsmarted, follow me…

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On The Books-School's Out-Teen Edition

On The Books-School’s Out-Teen Edition

I have droned on before about how lucky young adult and teen readers are today. They get more depth of storytelling than ever before. Entire worlds and mythologies built. Characters with a multitude of racial, ethnic, and sexual identities and stories that edge, sometimes dive, into a darker side. Here are a few featured books that fit the bill, alongside read alike picks, all new in 2022!

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