Review: A Drop of Corruption (April 1, 2025) by Robert Jackson Bennett 🩸 "Unshackled by the need for extensive world-building, Bennett has room in this sequel to craft a more complex and satisfying mystery" 🦴 speculativeshelf.com/2024/12/12/rev…

Review: Vanishing World (April 15, 2025) by Sayaka Murata (t. Ginny Tapley Takemori) 👶 "An off-kilter and unsettling page-turner..." 🫃speculativeshelf.com/2024/12/17/rev…

Review: Exit Zero: Stories (April 22, 2025) by Marie-Helene Bertino 🦄 "Bertino tackles heavy themes like grief, estrangement, divorce, and disconnection with the winning charm and dry wit that made her 2024 novel Beautyland such a standout." ☔️ speculativeshelf.com/2024/12/19/rev…

Review: The Country Under Heaven (May 2025) by Frederic S. Durbin 🤠 "Evoking the majesty and grandeur of the Old West, Durbin spins a stirring yarn about the aftershocks of battle and the struggle to overcome what haunts us." 🐎 speculativeshelf.com/2024/12/29/rev…

Review: Portalmania: Stories (May 13, 2025) by Debbie Urbanski 🚪 "Urbanski’s prose shines as a compulsively readable beacon, propelling us from one uncanny world to the next." 🪟 speculativeshelf.com/2025/01/10/rev…

Review: Strange and Perfect Account from the Permafrost (May 2025) by Donald Niedekker (t. Jonathan Reeder) 🗺️ "Such an odd and fascinating premise gives way to a richly imagined, beautifully translated, and appropriately wry tale." ⚓️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/01/21/rev…

Review: The Book of Records (May 2025) by Madeleine Thien 🌊 "Thien deftly explores the power of stories and their telling, the transient nature of time and memory, and the permanence of love and connection." 🌊 speculativeshelf.com/2025/01/29/rev…

Review: Written on the Dark (May 2025) by Guy Gavriel Kay 🌑 "...an engaging and satisfying story that longtime fans of GGK and newcomers alike will certainly enjoy." 💘 speculativeshelf.com/2025/02/13/rev…

Review: Weepers (June 2025) by Peter Mendelsund from Farrar,Straus&Giroux 🥹 "A melancholy and surreal neo-Western about a band of professional mourners who offer their tear-laden eyes to a desiccated world." 😭 speculativeshelf.com/2025/02/25/rev…

Review: Dengue Boy (2025) by Michel Nieva 🦟 "This gross, engrossing, and absurd phantasmagoria is a feast for the senses." 🇦🇷 speculativeshelf.com/2025/03/18/rev…

Review: Chilco (July 2025) by Daniela Catrileo via FSG Originals 🥀 "Catrileo’s writing is tender and quite lovely – more a breeze than a gale force wind. Subtle yet deeply moving." 🌆 speculativeshelf.com/2025/03/31/rev…

Review: Lucky Day (August 12, 2025) by Chuck Tingle 🎰 "Tingle’s twisted imagination shines brightest in the breathless sequences of gore and surreal terror...'twas a bloody good time!" 🕳️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/05/17/rev…

Review: Sympathy Tower Tokyo (September 2, 2025) by Rie Qudan (t. Jesse Kirkwood) 🗼 "Surreal and conceptually fascinating, but ultimately left me cold" 🏙️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/05/31/rev…

Review: The Lucky Ride (October 7, 2025) by Yasuashi (t. Takami Nieda) 🚖 "I was utterly charmed by this heartwarming tale. What a lovely book." 🚕 speculativeshelf.com/2025/06/07/rev…

Review: Lightbreakers (November 2025) by Aja Gabel (Aja Gabel) via Riverhead Books 🌵 "Emotionally resonant and deeply felt ... I greatly enjoyed my time with Lightbreakers and found Gabel's prose quite lovely." 🧂 speculativeshelf.com/2025/09/26/rev…

Review: Sunset at Zero Point (December 2025) by Simon Stålenhag 🐀 via Saga Press ☣️ "A cohesive, cinematic story anchored by a compelling sci-fi hook and a tender romance..." 🇸🇪 speculativeshelf.com/2025/10/07/rev…

Review: Cape Fever (December 2025) by Nadia Davids via Simon & Schuster 🖼️ "Engaging prose and a mysterious, claustrophobic setting create tremendous suspense in this excellent historical thriller." 🏚️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/10/07/rev…

Review: The Emergency (November 2025) by George Packer via Farrar,Straus&Giroux 🐷 "A compelling and creative spin on dystopian fiction...a prescient fable." 🧑‍⚕️ speculativeshelf.com/2025/10/17/rev…