Fiction

A spoiler-free review of The Wretched Divine by Adalyn Grace: five short interludes about two young angels carry more weight than the sixty chapters they interrupt, and one of them explains the whole book.

A spoiler-free review of In the Woods They Wait by Carrie Lee South: a teenager hides to frighten her little brother, he walks into the Ozarks and is never found, and fifteen years later something in those woods is still using his voice.

A spoiler-free review of Harbinger by Geneva Lee: a farmer's daughter branded with a dead house's mark, an immortal patron who charges her one answer a day, and a series opener built entirely out of withheld information.

A spoiler-free review of Fallen Rook by L.J. Shen: a closeted mob enforcer with a skin condition that flares every time he lies, and the federal agent who has been watching him for three years.

A spoiler-free review of Empire by Sabaa Tahir: the sequel to Heir, in which a prince who hates his own magic discovers that memory is the only weapon the war has left him.