Bookshots: 'Margaret the First: A Novel' by Danielle Dutton
Review by Leah Dearborn
Margaret Cavendish lives within a series of contradictions. At first cripplingly shy, she rises to great infamy for her wild fashions and ideas.
Bookshots: 'Knockout' by John Jodzio
Review by Christopher Shultz
Entertaining, heartfelt short stories about morally-dubious people doing morally-dubious things.
Bookshots: 'Innocents and Others' by Diana Spiotta
Review by JS Breukelaar
'Innocents and Others' reads like a runaway train, where between arrival and departure, time and place unspool in a never-ending landscape of damage done.
Bookshots: 'The Folly of Loving Life' by Monica Drake
Review by Leah Rhyne
In Monica Drake's collection, "The Folly of Loving Life," we watch a family's descent into madness...and their ultimate survival...which is weird, and sad, and hard, and amazing.
Bookshots: 'Perfectly Broken' by Robert Burke Warren
Review by Cath Murphy
An excellent character driven story about the aftermath of almost-fame and learning to be a decent parent.
Bookshots: 'Square Wave' by Mark de Silva
Review by Christopher Shultz
A not-so-dystopian dystopian debut novel with a literary bent.
Bookshots: 'Seeing Red' by Lina Meruane
Review by Leah Rhyne
A look at a Spanish-language novel, translated into English, that celebrates the love of words and sight and all things beautiful.
Bookshots: ‘The Blood Strand’ by Chris Ould
Review by Dean Fetzer
A detective from England returns to the Faroe Islands after his father is found unconscious in his car. Looking for answers about his past, he gets involved in solving that riddle and a murder.
Bookshots: 'Lovecraft Country' by Matt Ruff
Review by BH Shepherd
A concise review of 'Lovecraft Country' by Matt Ruff.
Bookshots: 'Interior Darkness' by Peter Straub
Review by Christine J. Schmidt
This short story collection will linger in your head long after you've put it down.
