5/5 stars The Society of Unknowable Objects, by Gareth Brown (2025) Ooooh I enjoyed this almost as much as The Book of Doors! A very close second. You don't need to have read The Book of Doors to enjoy it - all different characters and magic - but there is a fun nod to the book at the end of Unknowable Objects that hints at, perhaps, a cross-over book on the way, which would be awesome. Where The Book of Doors has magical books that do different magical things, this novel is an assortment of...

3/5 stars Tantrum, by Rachel Eve Moulton (2025) TW: Violence, cannibalism, child abuse Part I is called Temper, and introduces the main character, Thea, who is a wife, mother of two boys - 5 and 3-years old - and of an infant girl, Lucia. They live off the grid in the New Mexico desert. She loves her husband and kids, but is beginning to feel trapped in her life, particularly because she just knows that something is not right with Lucia, and hasn't shared this with anyone else. But Lucia's...

4/5 stars The Last Hour Between Worlds and The Last Soul Among Wolves, by Melissa Caruso (2024 & 2025) Loved these books and I'm excited to read the third in the series... But I couldn't wait til then to review the first two! Sort of a Groundhog Day/Inception/locked-room-murder-mystery mashup, this book takes place at a fancy New Year's Eve party in a world where there are multiple layers, called Echoes, of reality. "Prime" is layer one, where the characters start out. The further down you go...