Fiction

A spoiler-free review of Bodies of Magic by Freya Marske: five days of final examinations at a magical healing academy, a dead classmate nobody is able to talk about, and a workforce that never recovered from a plague.

A spoiler-free review of The Thoroughbreds by Elin Hilderbrand and Shelby Cunningham: senior year at Tiffin Academy, a missing seven million dollars, and a chorus that watches everything.

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.

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.

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.