The Mad Women’s Ball, by Victoria Mas

Trigger warning for rape. In the nineteenth century, a woman could be diagnosed with hysteria for an array of symptoms … More

A Radical Act of Free Magic, by H.G. Parry

H.G. Parry draws her sprawling historical fantasy to an abrupt close in A Radical Act of Free Magic. The first … More

Note: This book was originally scheduled to come out in June 2021. According to Edelweiss, the expected publication date has … More

Alex Landragin’s Crossings is the kind of book that I’ve been waiting for, but not because of its content. With … More

The Enlightenment, but make it magicians. That little phrase made frequent appearances in my brain as I read H.G. Parry’s … More

Being a teenager sucks. I certainly wasn’t fond of it. Like Lily, one of the protagonists of Janet Skeslien Charles’ … More

With the power to travel through time, apparently, comes the responsibility to save the world whenever it looks like it’s … More

The edges of an active war zone are just as dangerous as the war zone itself, especially during the Vietnam … More

Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano explains in the preface to A Bookshop in Berlin that the memoir was written shortly … More

Trigger warning for references to child abuse. Sister Johanna Marie is one of the most reluctant investigators I’ve ever read … More