The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
“Night, District Three of the Ho Chi Minh Autonomous Trade Zone. The plastic awning of the café streamed with rain. Under its shelter, wreathed in kitchen steam and human chatter, waiters...
Category: Fantasy
Nettle & Bone by Ursula Vernon writing as T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher is the pen name of Ursula Vernon, a prolific author with a body of work that runs the gamut from horror to romance by way of comics, short fiction,...
Dead Water by C. A. Fletcher
Horror is so not my genre; at least I thought not until I read C.A. Fletcher’s Dead Water publishedby Redhook in 2022. I loved this book and here are a few...
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
This is a story about an ogress. Like all ogres, she spoke little and thought much. She was careful and considerate. Her heavy feet trod lightly on the ground. [p. 1]...
Wildwood by Colin Meloy
It’s just a fantasyIt’s not the real thingIt’s just a fantasyIt’s not the real thingBut sometimes a fantasyIs all you need —-Billy Joel—- Wildwood, written by Colin Meloy, (the lead singer...
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
This is the story I wish I had written. Like its characters, The House in the Cerulean Sea is more than the sum of its parts. It’s magical, but, like its...
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
A Charlotte Mecklenburg Adult Services Librarian facilitates the book club at the West Boulevard branch of which I‘m a proud member. We don’t take ourselves too seriously; we share lots of...
