

Review of Volatile Memory (Volatile Memory #1) by Seth Haddon
Seth Haddon's slim science fiction debut offers action and a risky space quest, revenge, and love, but it's also a poignant, lovely story about being seen for your true self, being vulnerable, and thinking beyond traditional standards. Wylla's ship has seen better days, and she's desperate for a break. When she catches wind of a valuable, mysterious piece of technology on another planet, she banks on her wiliness and speed to beat other treasure hunters to it. Wylla's own mas
Dec 9, 2025


Review of I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Harpman's slim novel poses a mysterious situation without promising concrete explanations. Our main protagonist knows little about her...
May 22, 2025


Review of Murder by Memory (Dorothy Gentleman #1) by Olivia Waite
The playful tone and clever main protagonist in Olivia Waite's science-fiction novella make for an appealing mystery and lay the...
May 13, 2025


Review of How to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacNaughton
A former artist-in-residence at a hospice, MacNaughton distills the process of witnessing a loved one's end of life into a few elements...
May 4, 2023


Review of Foster by Claire Keegan
Keegan offers a gorgeously wrought Irish story of childhood, hope, love, and loss that is spare, lovely, heartbreaking, and that brought...
Mar 21, 2023


Review of This Other Eden by Paul Harding
Harding bases his slim historical fiction novel This Other Eden on a real-life, racially integrated island off the coast of Maine,...
Mar 14, 2023
