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    Chip Pons: You & I, Rewritten Review

    by Jefferz June 21, 2026
    June 21, 2026

    You & I, Rewritten by Chip Pons Genres: Adult, Fiction, Familial Drama, LGBTQ+, Romance, Contemporary Romance Published by Independently Published on Aug 19, 2022 Format: Hardcover, Special Edition Pages: 279 Source: Rainbow Crate Not to jinx it or anything, but the stars seem to finally be aligning for Will Cowen. After accepting a dream promotion at one of New York City’s most renowned publishing houses and moving in with his oldest friend, he’s ready to dive headfirst into this new chapter and take the literary world by storm – that is, until he crosses paths with Graham Austin. No matter how hard he tries, he can’t help but put the wrong foot forward in front of the all-business and inconveniently gorgeous heir to the publishing empire. So, when a heartbreakingly beautiful manuscript lands on his desk, Will seizes the opportunity for a win. Could this prized new author be his big break or, his downfall? Will’s confidence and hope for his professional future is obliterated when the author ghosts him at an important publishing event. Fueled by insecurity and an open bar, he finds himself in need of comfort, which comes from the least likely person, the normally cold and …

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    C.G. Drews: You Did Nothing Wrong Review

    by Jefferz November 16, 2025
    November 16, 2025

    You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G. Drews Genres: Adult, Familial Drama, Horror, Psychological Horror, Thriller, Domestic Thriller, Suspense Published by St. Martin’s Press on March 17, 2026 Format: ARC, eBook Pages: 368 Source: Netgalley A relentless, horror-inducing psychological suspense for fans of The Push and Baby Teeth by New York Times bestselling author CG Drews. Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal parts golden-retriever devoted and sinfully handsome. He’s whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he’s renovating. She has a new husband, a new house, and a new baby on the way. Everything is perfect.  Then Jude claims he can hear voices in the walls. He says their renovations are “hurting” the house. Even Elodie can’t ignore it–something strange is going on. The question is, is it with the house, or with her son?  Then the one secret Elodie has been hiding is revealed, and no one is safe anymore.  A pulse-pounding, clever take on the haunted house novel, You Did Nothing Wrong examines the complexities of motherhood and the twisted bonds of family as it races to its shocking ending. This book may be unsuitable for people …

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    Olivie Blake: Gifted & Talented Review

    by Jefferz April 28, 2025
    April 28, 2025

    Gifted & Talented by Olivie Blake Genres: Adult, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Magic Published by Tor on April 2, 2025 Format: eBook Pages: 495 The children of Thayer Wren have been remarkable since the day they were born. Unsurprisingly, since Thayer was the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology. Telepathically and telekinetically gifted, his offspring – Meredith, Arthur and Eilidh Wren – are publicly admired and privately capable of extraordinary feats. Any of the Wren prodigies would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne. Or at least, so they like to think.  On the day of Thayer Wren’s unexpected demise, the lives of the three Wren siblings are in various states of chaos and disrepair. Meredith, now CEO of her own profitable company, is knee-deep in a dystopian capitalist nightmare, haunted by the ghost of a childhood friend. She’s also facing imminent exposure for corporate malfeasance by a journalist ex-boyfriend. Congressman Arthur Wren is wrestling with his disgruntled constituency and a strange, magical malady that can only be called the yips. Eilidh, former prima ballerina whose spinal injury ended her career, now finds herself triggering accidental, uncontrolled apocalypse events.  In the wake of Thayer’s loss, …

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    Neil Gaiman: The Ocean At the End of the Lane

    by Jefferz December 23, 2024
    December 23, 2024

    The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman Genres: Coming of Age, Fantasy, Fiction, Magical Realism, Young Adult on June 17, 2013 Format: Hardcover Pages: 181 Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn’t thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she’d claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what. A …

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    Julie Clark: The Ghostwriter

    by Jefferz December 12, 2024
    December 12, 2024

    The Ghostwriter by Julie Clark Genres: Adult, Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Thriller Published by Sourcebooks on June 3, 2025 Format: ARC, eBook Pages: 368 Source: Netgalley The brand-new standalone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Flight, Julie Clark. Perfect for fans of Gillian McAllister, Lisa Jewell and Claire Douglas.  “I know what your dad did.”  I set down my sandwich. “He wrote a book.”  The boy, whose name I no longer remember, had shaken his head, eyes sparkling with glee to be the one to tell me. To shatter my childhood right there in the school cafeteria. “Your dad killed his brother and sister. Murdered them in their own home.” Ghostwriter Olivia Dumont has spent her entire professional life hiding the fact that she is the only child of legendary horror author Vincent Taylor, famous not only for his novels, but for being the prime suspect in the brutal slaying of his siblings. On the brink of financial ruin, Olivia reluctantly agrees to ghostwrite her father’s last book, not realising that she will be forced to reckon with the ghosts that live at the centre of her family. Because after fifty years of …

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