Shelf Reflections

Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

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“All Maggie, Russell, and Henry wanted out of their last college vacation was to get drunk and play archaeologist in[…]

“When Daniel Blackland was six, he ingested his first bone fragment, a bit of kraken spine plucked out of the[…]

“Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross—a man[…]

“In a steel-and-lead encased bunker a Special Forces soldier waits on his final orders. On the surface a bacterium has[…]

“On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news:[…]

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“Egil and Nix, adventurers and swords for hire, are pulled into the dark schemes of a decadent family with a[…]

“Cram ten hormonal teens into a spaceship and blast off: that’s the premise for the ill-conceived reality show Waste of[…]

“Angel Crawford is a loser. Living with her alcoholic deadbeat dad in the swamps of southern Louisiana, she’s a high[…]