Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult
A spoiler-free review of Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult: a woman lost on 9/11, twenty-five years of a borrowed name, and the illness nobody would name in 2001.
Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo
A spoiler-free review of Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo, the third and final Alex Stern novel: demons trickling into New Haven, a scrubbed expedition from 1933, and a climb up Harkness Tower.
Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel
A spoiler-free review of Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel: a Los Angeles house party in 2031, two guests who arrive twice, and a novel split between a country that shatters and one that never does.
Shadows of Leningrad by Kay Williams
Most sequels open by reminding you who everyone is. Shadows of Leningrad opens with a wounded man dragging a deflated dinghy into a rotting...
Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason
A spoiler-free review of Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason: a festival sound technician, newly and unwillingly single, falls privately in love with a famous novelist she has never met.