Ah, summer. Here in Minnesota, we joke that we get 9 months of winter. It’s not always true, but sometimes it really feels like it takes forever to warm up in the spring, then cools off much to quickly in …

Pirates, weather magic, unpredictable and dangerous clairvoyants, sentient forests—somehow Dark Water Daughter manages to have it all. Here’s what I thought of H. M. Long’s new and stunningly unique high fantasy. The Summary Mary Firth has left her home for …

Science fiction looks at science or technology from the outside, asking important questions about the future, but usually treating real science as beside the point. Science-based fiction, in contrast, doesn’t look at science—it uses science to look.

The Summary A haunting legend. An ominous curse. A search for a secret buried deep within the castle walls. In 1870, orphaned Daisy François takes a position as a housemaid at a Wisconsin castle to escape the horrors of her …

Man, I have so many feelings about The Celebrants! I have to admit, I was expecting something like The Guncle, and that’s really not so much what I got. But did I love it?? Read on to find out. The …

WHEW. Just last week I began working on this post, not realizing that I wouldn’t finish it before heading to the ER with some crazy symptoms, then getting hospitalized for Salmonella poisoning!! It’s….not something I recommend. BUT. I’m back home, …

We at Literary Quicksand are wishing a HAPPY PUB DAY to The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club! Read on for Becky’s review of this book she read in one sitting! The Summary Boston, 1954: With bags packed alongside her heavy heart, …

I received a copy of The Family Bones by Elle Marr back in January, and it’s taken me far too long to write this review! Life has a tendency to get in the way when I try to make plans, …