December 2, 2025
Purple background, with novel cover centered on page. Cover includes images of white, gray, and purple roses, with a slash through the middle. TEXT: Violeta - Gothic Literature Review - Julie Sara Porter
Published by Julie Sara Porter at December 2, 2025
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Violeta: A Gothic Literature Tale Fit for the Ages

Fourteen-year-old Violeta Valentine lives with her older brother, Tommy, and their widowed mother in Arizona. Violeta’s mother isolates Violeta and targets her with abuse and neglect. Tommy tries to protect her as much as he can. This tense situation explodes one day when their mother puts both children’s lives in danger.
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November 17, 2025
Vivid turquoise background with images partially hidden of book cover. Book cover in foreground, unblurred, for Maya and Natasha. Text: Maya and Natasha: A Cold War Novel of Twins and Ballet - A Review - Zina Mona
Published by Zina Mona at November 17, 2025
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Maya and Natasha: A Cold War Novel of Twins and Ballet — Review

Despite the difficulty of creating a historical novel, Durham skillfully depicts the love, jealousy, and other complexities of a twin sisterhood influenced by trauma, distance, and forgiveness.
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October 31, 2025
Deep red rose on a black, otherwise "darked out" image. Rose is lying on the ground, with a short stem and leaves piercingly obvious. The cover of the book "Carmilla" (all black and white with two women illustrated from the Gothic era, looking off into the distance) in upper right hand corner. In deep red text, matching the rose's color, Carmilla: Review of a Classic Vampire Novella. Zina Mona.
Published by Zina Mona at October 31, 2025
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Carmilla: a Review of the Classic Vampire Novella

Filled with gothic imagery, Carmilla makes for a dark and spooky reading experience. I was immediately enamored with the setting, from the vast castle to the village ruins. I easily became absorbed in the story, and the tense atmosphere from the start pulled me right through to the end.
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October 9, 2025
Cover of book: The Other Emma, with an image of a pensive young woman amid falling snow - TEXT: Historical Fiction Novel Review, Julie Sara Porter
Published by Julie Sara Porter at October 9, 2025
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The Other Emma: A Book Review

As Rose ascends higher in society, she has to weigh what her own identity, status, and newfound wealth and influence can do for those women who are what she once was. Can she aspire to be the beneficial influence to them that others have been to her?
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October 5, 2025
Book cover image with a creepy house in a red haze -- it's set askew. Outline of Ohio behind the image, with a rolled up newspaper above the book cover. TEXT: Supernatural Thriller Review, Julie Sara Porter - The Bellfeontaine Haunting by Marie Wilkens
Published by Julie Sara Porter at October 5, 2025
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The Bellefontaine Haunting — A Supernatural Thriller Review

The Bellfontaine Haunting by Marie Wilkins is a suspenseful and gripping supernatural thriller and murder mystery. It held me from the first page to the last with its story of the ghost of a deceased woman haunting a reporter and the cold case surrounding her death suddenly becoming hot and open.
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September 25, 2025
Fangirl Down - book cover for Tessa Bailey's rom-com novel - Image of a young woman getting a piggback ride from a guy wearing a backward baseball cap - TEXT: Fangirl Down, A rollercoasted of love, desire, and golf - Book Review: Rom-Com - Nereesha Patel
Published by Nereesha Patel at September 25, 2025
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Fangirl Down: A Rollercoaster of Love, Desire, and Golf

Written by Tessa Bailey, Fangirl Down follows Josephine Boyle, a young woman who is a huge fan of Wells Whitaker, a disgraced pro golfer who is one temper tantrum away from quitting the sport forever. Unfortunately for Josephine, she faces the brunt of his outburst during a tournament, leaving the self-proclaimed “Wells’s Belle” disillusioned for a short while.
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September 22, 2025
Blue, blurred background with yellow and aqua accents in background - Book Cover for The Life Impossible by Matt Haig - TEXT: An Environmentalist Fantasy Review - Zina Mona
Published by Zina Mona at September 22, 2025
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The Life Impossible, an Environmentalist Fantasy Review

The premise writes itself — a one way ticket, an idyllic island, and a mysterious death. But it is not thrilling, in the pure sense of the word, nor is it a pure fantasy; The Impossible Life exists in a plane of reality that is magical and precisely mathematical.
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July 5, 2025
Book cover of swimming pool beside modern, tropical house. TEXT: The Imagined Life, a Literary Novel Review, Zina Mona, Book Review
Published by Zina Mona at July 5, 2025
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The Imagined Life, a Literary Novel Review

Of course I judge a book by its cover. I know it’s wrong, but a pretty cover will lure me in. The Imagined Life by Andrew Porter possesses one of those magical covers that’s not merely beautiful, but reflects equally the gorgeous writing within.
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June 30, 2025
Book cover with black background and floral images on dark green background. TEXT: We Are All the Same in the Dark - Suspense Book Review, Karrie Wortner
Published by Karrie Wortner at June 30, 2025
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We Are All the Same in the Dark, a Fiction Review

In We Are All the Same in the Dark by Julia Heaberlin, ten haunting years have passed since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving behind nothing but a smear of blood and a town suspended in yearning.
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June 2, 2025
Hell Town book review
Published by Sue Cook at June 2, 2025
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Hell Town -The Untold Story Of A Serial Killer On Cape Cod: A Book Review

The most startling portions of Hell Town are true. Let that sink in. I am not easily made nauseous by true crime, but this was brutal. Casey Sherman’s writing style, and description of the events are both brilliant, and nightmare-ish.
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