Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Will contain spoilers! Genre/s: Horror, Thriller Themes: Magic, Movies, 90's Mexico Rating: Description: Montserrat has always been overlooked. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. And she’s all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera…

Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Cixin Liu

Will contain spoilers! Genre/s: Sci-Fi, Speculative Fiction Themes: Civilisation, War, Climate Change Rating: Description: In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth's first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus' lunch. Throughout the universe, intelligence is a rare…

The Flaw in All Magic by Ben S. Dobson

Will contain spoilers! Genre/s: Fantasy Themes: Magic, Rating: Description: In a world of elves and dwarves and sprites and mages, Tane Carver is a human with no gift but his wits. Which, to be fair, did get him into the world's most prestigious university of magical technology.For a while.Until his lack of magic was discovered.…

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Will contain spoilers! Genre/s: Dark Academia, Thriller Themes: Murder, Alcoholism, Drugs Rating: Description: Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they…

Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare

Will contain spoilers! Genre/s: YA Horror Themes: Violence, Revenge Rating: Description: Quinn Maybrook just wants to make it until graduation. She might not make it to morning.Quinn and her father moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs to find a fresh start. But ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked…