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4/5: My last read of 2025 and it did not disappoint! Andrea Tang serves up a delectable cocktail of fantasy, mystery, and snappy banter, shaken (not stirred) with just enough magical chaos to keep m...

5/5: Emotional Damage! Laila Lalami’s The Dream Hotel is the kind of novel that simmers under your skin long after you’ve closed the cover. Sara, returning home from a conference, is abruptly detained by the Risk Assessment Administration, an agency that claims to predict crimes before they happen, using data mined from her dreams. Her alleged offense? Loving her husband too fiercely. What follows is a masterclass in quiet horror: a sterile detention center, shifting rules that punish compliance as much as defiance, and a cast of women all condemned not for what they’ve done, but for what they ...

4/5: Cory O’Brien’s Two Truths and a Lie isn’t just dystopian. It’s dystopian with receipts. Set in a soggy, near-future Los Angeles where memories are currency and love is a liability, it follows Orr...

4/5: Move over, Miss Marple there’s a new plant-slinging sleuth in town! The Lost Apothecary razor-sharp debut, a STEMinist whodunit that paints 1923 London’s academic halls less “ivory tower” and mor...

4/5: Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz is the kind of sci-fi comfort food I didn’t know I needed. Like a steaming bowl of ramen served with existential questions and robot trauma. Set in a fractured,...

4/5: Move over, Miss Marple there’s a new plant-slinging sleuth in town! The Lost Apothecary razor-sharp debut, a STEMinist whodunit that paints 1923 London’s academic halls less “ivory tower” and mor...

5/5: My cat gave it five stars. And frankly, if a creature that naps 20 hours a day is fully invested, you know it’s good. Gabe and Sylvia’s love story remains the series’ beating heart, though we ge...

4/5: Refraining from spoilers is hard, so I will keep it short. Chaos King Infinity Alchemist #2 didn’t just break my heart. It stomped on it in stilettos, then resurrected it just to break it again. ...

5/5: "Secrets of the Lost Ledgers" Or, How to Uncover a Criminal Mastermind While Trying Not to Notice Your Soul Mate’s Jawline (Again)🐱 What makes this series sing isn’t just the twistier than a pre...

4/5: Guardian Demon Smut, Souls, and a Crow Who Steals Your Keys I won this fabulous book. I jumped into book 4 cold and didn’t drown. Props to Aurora Ascher for that miracle. Sunshine (angel, chaos-...