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Jia Wen rated Shattered Target

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

31 January 2026

For readers who gravitate to corporate-conspiracy thrillers with psychological shading and minimal gore. Content notes: firearm violence, stalking menace, medical trauma references, fugue states, fina…

Diego Marin rated Beyond the Forest

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

25 January 2026

If your shelves hold Dan Radulescu's The Narrow Garrison and Anca Teodorescu's Snow Without Tracks, you might expect a leaner, more propulsive chronicle; Brown's book is heavier and dutiful, its inves…

Chen Guo rated The Forgotten River

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

24 January 2026

- Inventive river magic and memory interplay - Strong Reed Monk sequences - Academy politics drag long stretches - Too many neologisms without immediate grounding

Karim Haddad rated Beyond the House

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

20 January 2026

If you like Deirdre Madden's steady moral gaze and Tim Pears' patient attention to landscape, this will feel familiar. The braid of an Irish house in 1922 with a 1970s archive quest shares that reflec…

Devon Armitage rated Calls the Crimson Journey

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

20 January 2026

For readers who want wild country plus ethical knots, this delivers with clarity. - Glacial setting that feels lived-in - Clue chain that rewards attention - Occasional gear-detail glut - Ending favo…

Sienna McCrae rated Song of Gentle Journey

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

12 January 2026

Hand this to readers who like poetic YA with tech that feels analog, festival politics, and road-trip structures. The pacing wobbles in the middle port or two, and younger teens may miss some of the e…

Amina Khalil rated The Last Heart

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

12 January 2026

Steel, steam, and a soft-spoken romance coil through gorgeous graphite, delivering a moody first volume that hums with risk and tenderness.

Sloane Whitaker rated Shattered Target

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

10 January 2026

Mixed feelings: - Slick concept with an actuarial twist - Chilly prose that fits Mara - Convoluted last-third logistics - Corporate intrigue more engaging than club theatrics Worth a borrow if you li…

Priya Kulkarni rated Wild Hearts

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

10 January 2026

Lark's impulsive gamble and Cole's stoicism make sparks, but their dialogue too often circles the same beats, so the chemistry feels more engineered than earned.

Sorina Vale rated Beyond the Forest

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

10 January 2026

Brown is tracing more than a life. He is mapping how a resource becomes a myth and how fear becomes habit. The recurring images of bare shelves, herbarium drawers, and thawing streets point to memory …

Jamal Arroyo rated Shattered Hearts

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

08 January 2026

Quick take for suspense fans weighing this one. - Atmospheric mansion rules that escalate - Some repetitious clue circling - Strong EMT grounding, uneven antagonist logic - Best for readers who prefe…

Lila Sorensen rated The Forgotten River

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

05 January 2026

Themes circle vengeance versus repair, with water as both weapon and witness. The book keeps worrying the line between memory and myth, asking what it means to defend a legacy "built on sandbars and p…

Marta Quinlan rated Calls the Crimson Journey

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

03 January 2026

I am thrilled by how Calls the Crimson Journey redraws what a mystery can be, turning a mountain range into an ethics lab and a confession booth! The book keeps asking whether it is easier to map bla…

Tomas Vega rated The Forgotten River

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

28 December 2025

The worldbuilding gleams: terraced Khir-Atar, oared banners on canals, ink-bound oaths, and a glass sorcery that sips sound until the city feels hushed. Yet the glossary-level density sometimes muddie…

Helena Moritz rated Shattered Hearts

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

14 December 2025

This is a suspense tale about containment and confession, about what dynasties lock away and what tides return to shore. The rule "Never answer the crimson phone" becomes a statement on inherited secr…

Miguel Arce rated Shattered Target

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

01 December 2025

Chicago hums here: a West Loop loft, the Old Main Post Office with a range sunk beneath it, heat shimmering off the river, institutional corridors cooled to museum temps; the civic gloss sits next to …

Tasha Greer rated Wild Hearts

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

30 November 2025

Think of it as Leah Kincaid's Canyon Skies meets Ramon Ortega's Dust Country: the romance sits between backcountry aviation competence and small-town obligation. If you enjoy procedural detail, quiet…

Ruth Pennington rated Beyond the House

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

12 November 2025

Silence, inheritance, and the ethics of keeping names are the book's load-bearing themes, announced early with the vow of the orchard wall and repeated through tokens like the Foxford blanket and a pr…

Priya Dlamini rated The Forgotten River

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

09 November 2025

Esi is prickly, proud, and desperately loyal, and the nsu-lume twist of memory lets her grief argue back. Her mentorship under the Reed Monks complicates an already thorny sense of duty. Dialogues in…

Noor Alvarado rated Song of Gentle Journey

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

03 November 2025

It sings about consent and power: whose houses take the wind so schedules look tidy? Linn's choice is not heroism versus cowardice but stewardship versus performance, and that framing gives the story …

Owen Radford rated Beyond the Forest

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

02 November 2025

As a portrait of a region under scarcity, this excels. The Mocanita snaking through spruce, the leather coats at checkpoints, the parallel markets along logging roads, the radio tech improvising broad…

Lucia Perreault rated Calls the Crimson Journey

★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

01 November 2025

The book turns the Homathko and Klinaklini into a living archive, from biscuit tins wired to krummholz to drums of white gas cached like breadcrumbs. Red iron oxide dusts gloves and snow, yellowjacket…

Owen Petrescu rated Shattered Hearts

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

30 October 2025

Give me a coastal mansion with rules and I am in, but Garnet Hall's internal logic wobbles. Shutters, sea stairs, a crimson phone, a sealed ledger: great ingredients. The story rarely grounds these c…

Jonas Petrov rated Song of Gentle Journey

★ ★ ★ ★ ★

15 September 2025

Few YA settings feel this lived-in. The Kestrel Ministry, the predictive net Aureline, the docks and choir-of-buoys, and the ciphered tide books with barnacle sigils on lightposts are all present, and…

Priya Raman rated Shattered Target

★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

12 September 2025

The math sings; the story stumbles. Chapters juggle timelines and memos with clinical polish, but the structural neatness bleeds tension. The middle third drowns in firm-wide briefings and probabilit…