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Posts published by “Christina Thomas”

A haunted house with Brat

Brat by Gabriel Smith is an experimental horror novel that follows a narrator experiencing strange events while attempting to sell his parents’ house after the loss of his father.

A mysterious dystopian with I Who Have Never Known Men

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jaqueline Harpman is a dystopian novel about a group of 40 women trapped in a bunker, unaware of how they got there, and their eventual escape.

A historical fantasy with Babel

Babel by R.F. Kuang is a historical fiction fantasy that follows Robin Swift, a young Chinese boy plucked from China and enrolled into Oxford by a mysterious professor, who discovers an innate talent for linguistics and magic.

A subversion of the hero genre with Vicious

Vicious by V.E. Schwab is a science fiction fantasy involving two college roommates who—in an attempt to play mad scientists—discover the ability to bestow superpowers to individuals through the use of extreme stress.

A haunting tale with Our Wives Under the Sea

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armstrong is a horror fiction novel following a married couple, Miri and Leah.After a disastrous deep-sea mission, Leah comes back changed.

A thrilling mystery with The Grownup

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn is a short novel about an unnamed con artist who pretends to be connected with the spiritual realm.

A mysterious psyche with Chlorine

Chlorine by Jade Song is a horror fiction novel that mixes genres and timelines which ultimately makes you question what is real and what is imagined.

A horrific murder with In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote, follows a real historical crime from the 20th century. In 1959, the Clutter family was brutally murdered in Kansas.

A fantasy adventure with Mistborn

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson is a high stakes high fantasy novel about revenge and revolution. After being sentenced to die by the Lord Ruler, our protagonist, Kelsier, swears revenge and seeks to destroy both the Lord Ruler and his entire kingdom.

Tragic love with The Broken Wings

The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran is a poetic classic love story from the early 1900s. It is a short book, under 150 pages, about a love between a doomed couple.