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More Memoir Than Science. In all honesty, one of the books I keep coming back to as an example of what this book *is* is Rachel Held Evans' Searching For Sunday, just a more explicitly anti-Christian one rather than someone who still considered themselves a believer in Christ but was searching for a version of the faith that made more sense to themselves.

Here, we get a so-called "Elder Millennial" or "Xennial" similar in age to both Ev

Solid Southern Royalty Family Drama. We don't have actual royalty in the United States, but in different areas of the country we do have very rich families - sometimes rich going back many generations, sometimes (particularly over the last century) much newer (ala The Great Gatsby). This is a modern tale of one such family, and Gilbert really does a great job of bringing us - even those of us who themselv

Solid Creepy Creature Feature Thrills. If you're a Creature Feature kind of person, or perhaps an XFiles or Buffy the Vampire Slayer or similar type show fan, you're going to love this book. Yes, it is deep in the Dane Maddock Universe, but Wood is generally careful these day

Powerful Examination Of Grief. Look, if I can read this book while staring down my wife's major heart surgery in less than two weeks while also dealing with my dad living in congestive heart failure for a couple of years now while also having a very old cat... you can read this powerful story of loss and love and finding yourself through your grief too. Yes, you too may be a bit delayed by all of the above and more, or your particular variant thereof, but you can absolutely make it through this book. Indeed, I would go so far as to say you *need* to make it through this book. Because this Autism Acceptance Month, let this Autistic tell you something about our experience: We read as much to learn about the human condition and to prepare our minds to handle different situations and emotions almost as for any other reason - at least some of us. (And maybe even just me - I tend to be so hyper rare as to possibly be unique even among billions of peop

Yes, you read that headline right. According to recently released data from Pew Research, 51% of Americans say they had read “all or part of” 10 or fewer books in the past 12 mon

One Of The Most Spot-On Descriptions I've Ever Come Across. So despite having this as an ARC for at least a few weeks, specifically because Ruff is a Lead Author in the Facebook group My Book Friends - which I've been active in since its founding several years ago - I only got to it about a week after its releas

Not Southern Gothic. At All. More A Modern Day Gatsby. With Witches And Magical Realism. I've read at least one or two of Carpenter's books before this one (and have a few more), and I know Carpenter knows Southern Gothic - Gothictown, her 2025 release, was spot on for that genre. But this aint that at ALL.

Yet what we *do* get is an "on trend" (re: magical realism) update to T

Fun Crime Thriller That Could Have Been So Much More. First, I first accepted this book as an Advance Review Copy because it sounded interesting... before I found out that it

Darude Meets Eminem. In this tale, the New God of Science Fiction gets more overtly political than in any other book I've ever read from him - and I met the guy back in *MySpace* back when he had just two books available (both via Print On Demand in the pre-Kindle era befor

Powerful. Controversial. Desperately Needed. This is one of those books where "Preacher" is stepping on *everyone's* toes (while aiming for their hearts, as the old joke goes). Left. Right. Woke. Based. Southern Baptist. Cooperative Baptist. Andrew Tate. Elliot (fka Ellen) Page. Don't matter. Wagner openly proclaims you're all wrong, and here's w