Book Reviews

A novel that explores what it means to have an atypical relationship to work.

A book about transportation and the movement of goods in American logistics.

A one-handed orphan gets adopted, beginning a wild romp through the streets of New England.

A peasant girl enrolls into a competitive military school and learns secret techniques to fight in an upcoming war.

A collection of horror short stories, from small scares to the cosmic, featuring urban sprawl and incongruous elements.

The narrator comes off as schizoid, and his personality becomes his undoing.

As a short novel about the worst kind of juvenile delinquent, it explores an intriguing “what if” regarding crime, treatment and punishment.

This is a book about investigating the murder of a god, where necromancy has become formalized under legal procedures.

This is a collection of horror vignettes that link together. I found the last story to be more in-line with a traditional fantasy plot, but the rest are unique in concept and execution.

The premise of this book is intriguing: a woman participates in a university study on morality, and the researcher has an agenda.

This is a middle grade book that I reread as an adult. I actually cried as I noticed things I don’t remember when I had read it as a kid, especially with the protagonist arguing at her mother and demanding things in her childish ignorance.

This is a book about an overpowered protagonist. I will first say that it reminds me of Skyrim, with the amount of sneaking about, bandit slaughtering, and literal Thieves Guilds.