“A boring orgy is a painful affair.” Immortal beloveds Rebekah and Hugh are on vacation! Against a backdrop of ongoing war, this pair of chic emotional vampires from San Francisco sets off on a queer Black Sea Cruise, eager to relax, join an orgy, and feast upon their fellow passengers’ desires and sorrows. When Hugh…
Problematic Summer Romance by Ali Hazelwood
“I have never wanted anything as desperately, as ungovernably, as persistently as I want you. Not a single goddamn thing. Not my dead mother back. Not revenge. Not the well-being of the people I love. Not professional success, not even my own happiness. Absolutely nothing has consumed me as mercilessly as you have.” Maya Killgore…
2025 Women in Translation Month
Hello! I’m back again to make some recommendations for August, which is Women in Translation Month. Hardly anyone ever looks at this post, but I feel deeply enough about this that I keep writing a post about it. I suppose it is possible that we’re all reading the same five books each year and that’s…
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
“Bury my bones in the midnight soil, plant them shallow and water them deep, and in my place will grow a feral rose, soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth.” Three women over three different time periods are brought together by their mutual desire for more out of life. Maria wants to escape her lot…
At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop
“To translate is never simple. To translate is to betray at the borders, it’s to cheat, it’s to trade one sentence for another. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large. To translate is to risk understanding better…
The Will of the Many by James Islington
“Silence is a statement, Diago. Inaction picks a side. And when those lead to personal benefit, they are complicity.” Vis, the adopted son of Magnus Quintus Ulcisor, a prominent senator within the Hierarchy, is trained to enter the famed Catenan Academy to help Ulciscor learn what the hidden agenda is of the remote island academy….
A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim
“I know the stories. Dragons disguising themselves as humans and seducing innocent men and women, luring them from their homes, then turning them into concubines and never letting them leave Ai’long.” Truyan Saigas didn’t choose to become a con artist, but after her father is lost at sea, it’s up to her to support her…
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
“To serve is a tremendously humbling thing. How easy it is to mistake glory and fame for duty! But duty is thankless, invisible, Forgettable—but oh, so very necessary.” In the canton of Yarrowdale, at the very edge of the Empire’s reach, an impossible crime has occurred. A Treasury officer has disappeared into thin air—abducted from…
The Secret Market of the Dead by Giovanni De Feo
Just beyond the waking edges of Lucerìa, an 18th-century town in the kingdom of Naples, lies the an enigmatic fiefdom governed by seven immortals and fueled by Moira, the power to reshape one’s destiny. On this porous border separating Day from Night, Oriana spends her time fantasizing about becoming a smith in her father’s forge…
The Memory of the Ogisi by Moses Ose Utomi
“Evil didn’t change. The evil of yesteryear was no different from the evil of today, and the Aleke had shown him that.” The City of a Thousand Stories stands resolute on the edge of the Forever Desert. It is a lush metropolis, where water flows into every mouth that thirsts and knowledge sprouts in every…
The Great Book Wyrm 