Tak! quoted Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary …
Long after the House is gone, it’s there.
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Tak! quoted After The Revolution by Robert Evans
What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an …
Manny smiled at the way the British journalist’s face blanched as the old Toyota hit the pothole.
Tak! quoted Interference by Sue Burke (Semiosis Duology, #2)
Over two hundred years after the first colonists landed on Pax, a new set of …
For all the danger in that forest with its tumbling-down ruins, the beauty pulled me back one last time.
— Interference by Sue Burke (Semiosis Duology, #2)
Tak! quoted The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
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Damira followed the blood down the hill.
Tak! quoted A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones …
There was a vulture on the mailbox of my grandmother’s house.
Tak! quoted Time Shelter - a Novel by Georgi Gospodinov
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created.
Tak! quoted Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to …
A sentient space station should have perfect temperature, Mallory Viridian thought.
Tak! quoted A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
In 17th-century London, unnatural babies are being born, with eyes made for the dark and …
Content warning infant death
Sarah knew Rebecca's babe was dead as soon as the head slid free, from the look on Mistress June's face.
Tak! quoted Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi KAWAKAMI
From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions …
Let’s go to the baths today, Miss Ikuko said, so we all got ready.
Tak! quoted Where the Axe Is Buried by Ray Nayler
In the authoritarian Federation, there is a plot to assassinate and replace the President, a …
The axe cleaved the log in two.
Tak! quoted Someone You Can Build a Nest In by John Wiswell
Discover this creepy, charming monster-slaying fantasy romance—from the perspective of the monster—by Nebula Award-winning debut …
Each year when Shesheshen hibernated, she dreamed of her childhood nest.
Tak! quoted North Continent Ribbon by Ursula Whitcher
On Nakharat, every contract is a ribbon and every ribbon is a secret, braided tight …
I met the khanym when I tried to kill her.
A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new …
They asked me, “When was the last time you saw Doctor Fell?” and the memory hole I tripped into was ridiculous.
Tak! quoted A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors …
There was a fly walking on Cordelia’s hand and she was not allowed to flick it away.
Tak! quoted Full Speed to a Crash Landing by Beth Revis
A high octane sexy space heist from New York Times-bestselling author Beth Revis, the first …
So. I’m not in an ideal situation right now.