Book Review
The Dead Can't Make a Living
by Leah Block
An entrepreneur navigates Taiwan’s government, gangs, and corporate culture in Ed Lin’s mystery novel The Dead Can’t Make a Living. Entrepreneurial, sarcastic, and unlucky Jing-nan runs his late parents’ food stall in Taipei’s...
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The Final Renegade
by Leah Block
No one is safe as teenage spies track down their rivals in "The Final Renegade", a fresh entry in a propulsive thriller series. In R. S. Twells’s exciting, series-continuing novel "The Final Renegade", a teenage spy faces major...
Book Review
Hellebore Fields
by Leah Block
"Hellebore Fields" is a dark romance novel that’s marked by inherent suspense. Toeing the line between love and obsession, Rivkah Plume’s dark romance novel "Hellebore Fields" follows a naive academic’s love affair with an infamous...
Book Review
The Pickerings' Last Tango
by Leah Block
The Pickerings’ Last Tango is a bittersweet, affecting novel about grief and the power of true love. In John Grayson Heide’s moving novel The Pickerings’ Last Tango, a grieving husband makes the difficult choice to leave the world...
Book Review
The Set Up
by Leah Block
The revealing memoir "The Set Up" is about overcoming adversity through religion, connections, and personal strength. Carl Edward Jackson’s candid memoir "The Set Up" is about his tumultuous adulthood in the South. When Jackson was...
Book Review
Protocol Heresy
by Leah Block
On the lighter side of melancholy, "Protocol Heresy" is a near-future novel about the damage done when people are left to mourn alone. C. J. Loveman’s affecting science fiction novella "Protocol Heresy" is about the psychological...
Book Review
Crime Ink: Iconic
by Leah Block
Obsessive sleuths crack criminal cases in the delightful and subversive queer crime anthology "Crime Ink: Iconic", a sharp, often satirical collection centered on the intersection of queerness and mystery. In “The Prophet Daniel,” a...
Book Review
Under the Pink Triangle
by Leah Block
In Katie Moore’s moving historical novel "Under the Pink Triangle", gay men navigate Dachau in 1942. Manny and Rudi are imprisoned in Dachau, forced to wear pink triangles, because they are gay. They form a deep connection with one...
