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Editor’s pick★ 4

Land of Ghosts

by E L James

The house was empty. The back bedroom never was.

An orphaned cellist moves into her guardian's spotless Chiswick house and finds the back bedroom already occupied by a boy only she can see. E L James's first young adult novel is at its best on grief and at its weakest on repetit…

Editor’s pick★ 4.5

A Married Little Christmas

by Abby Jimenez

Three couples, one pancake diner, and a town that never takes its lights down.

Three linked holiday novellas from Abby Jimenez: exes forced to fake a reunion, a man stuck in a diner in a zombie Santa costume, and two best friends who team up against a three-day engagement. Funny and generous, with endings th…

Editor’s pick★ 4.5

A Court of Splintered Harmony

by Sarah J. Maas

The war has not started yet. The family is already breaking.

Six months after Nyx's birth, the Night Court is negotiating with kingdoms that want the human lands back, an ancient death-lord is stirring, and Azriel is coming apart. The sixth ACOTAR book is a sharp, dark first movement with a…

Editor’s pick★ 5

Arcaneia

by Trenor Rapkins

The first casualty of war is truth. The second is the soldier who believed it.

Spoiler-free review of Arcaneia by Trenor Rapkins: a 2126 dystopia where a corporate soldier uncovers his manipulation and seeks truth and redemption.

Editor’s pick★ 4

Off the Reservation

by Stephen Graham Jones

Some bones were never meant to stay buried two thousand miles from home.

Five years after Duck Lake, Nate Yellow Tail rides east in a borrowed parade RV to bring a Blackfeet boy's bones home from Carlisle. Jones's sequel is braver, funnier and stranger than its predecessor, with a sagging middle and su…

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