: on Beautiful Frog, a cute interactive fiction where you raise a frog: I love frogs, and this little …

: on How It Happened by Michael Koryta: don’t be dissuaded by this book’s description, …

: on All Fall Down by Jennifer Weiner: This is an important, and sometimes very dark, story wrapped in …

: on 20 Hrs., 40 Min. by Amelia Earhart: I’m an Earhart enthusiast, and this book entered the …

: I made it partway into both Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar and Hard By a Great Forest by Leo Vardiashvili. …

: on The Beautiful and the Wild: a thriller set in the deep wilds of alaska, where the main …

: on This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer: a sponsored rock climber and doctoral researcher team up to …

: on The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi: i enjoyed this genre-mixing thriller, which is just as much …

: on those who wish me dead by michael koryta: i loved this confident, fast-moving thriller set on a …

: on last to leave the room by caitlin starling: this is a dystopian horror novel set in startup …

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: from The St. Ambrose School for Girls by Jessica Ward (aetabooks): The attractive are often agents …

: from Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi (aetabooks): He’d been quiet, reclusive. David had …

: from Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward (aetabooks): Writers are monsters, really. We eat …

: from Revelator by Daryl Gregory (aetabooks): Let’s just say it’s two parts science and one part …

: from The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz (aetabooks): “Now you’re dead, trapped in the underworld. …

: from Penpal by Dathan Auerbach (aetabooks): Our lives are so short that it seems a crime to …

: from Scorpion by Christian Cantrell (aetabooks): Arguing with someone you love is a form of …

: from Scorpion by Christian Cantrell (aetabooks): Luxury is a type of meta-diversion designed to …

: ejecta (aetawords): (geology) Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an …

: from Followers by Megan Angelo (aetabooks): More than anything else — to be an author, to have a …

: from Followers by Megan Angelo (aetabooks): Orla began the strenuous mental exercise of trying to …

: from The Couples Trip by Ulf Kvensler (aetabooks): It’s not that I’m unhappy in our apartment, but …

: from Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi (aetabooks): Be careful you don’t confuse evil with …

: From The Ferryman by Justin Cronin (aetabooks): For my father, reality’s gentle rain has become a …

: From Interview With the Vampire by Anne Rice (aetabooks): People who cease to believe in God or …

: from The Awkward Age by Francesca Segal (aetabooks): He was waiting out his father’s disappointment …

: deke (aetawords): Canadian English. (ice hockey) A feint, fake, or other move made by the player …