Summary A twisted, wildly imaginative tale of one man’s mysterious illness and his journey through a dystopian hospital system. When Yang Wei travels to C City for work, he expects nothing more than a standard business trip. A break from …
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I was lucky enough to receive an advance copy of Trang Tranh Tran’s YA debut She is a Haunting. Read on for my review! Summary A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect …
The Twyford Code was totally nuts…in a good way! Read on for my thoughts. Summary Forty years ago, Steven “Smithy” Smith found a copy of a famous children’s book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings …
Oh how much I loved The River You Touch on audiobook! I’m totally smitten with this book….it was like magic. Read on to find out what made me love it so much! Summary “We are matter and long to be …
Welcome to our first recap in 2023! How did your reading year start? Mine started pretty normally – I read 4 books in January, and I average one a week. So, I’m on track! I did have one DNF this …
When winter sets in, do you crave a few winter reads? Or maybe you like them in the dog days of summer to help you cool off. Either way, books set in winter can be really cozy reads! To help …
Good news: the annual Best Historical Fiction list is back! This is Literary Quicksand’s 3rd year of curating an epic list of historical fiction. As with the previous years, I’ll do my best to keep coming back and updating this …
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Book Review: The London Séance Society by Sarah Penner
Hey, The Lost Apothecary fans! Looking forward to Penner’s new book, The London Séance Society? So was I! Read on to find out why I didn’t love it as much as her first. The Summary May mercy be upon the …
Do you have any authors who’ve been on your to-read list for YEARS? You know their books are a great fit for you, but somehow you’ve just never gotten to them? One of those authors for me is Susan Meissner. …