Fiction

A spoiler-free review of Hawk & Sparrow by Ayana Gray: a nineteen-year-old reporter, a sorcerer who gets sick every time he casts, and a machine that turns anyone into a magician for the price of a button press.

A spoiler-free review of Buried in the Woods Below by Daniel G. Miller: a Minnesota island, a dead amusement park, a house full of antique dolls, and a narrator who counts everything she can reach.

A spoiler-free review of Blacktail by Scott Hawkins: ten years after The Library at Mount Char, a half-wolf walks south to wake a sleeping god, and the whole novel is told from inside the heads of animals who mean every word.

A spoiler-free review of The Wolf Queen's Curse by Kaylee Archer: the second Cordelia and Bishop book trades Trevelyan for three werewolf Packs, a road trip of bad-faith negotiations, and a marriage that keeps asking who actually chose it.

A spoiler-free review of Paper Ghosts by Sarah Addison Allen: three parts labelled Rewind, Fast Forward and Play, a woman who has been on pause for fifty years, and a house nobody is allowed to enter.