Book Review: Hurricane Trinity
HURRICANE TRINITY by Nick Rees Gardner is an honest, succinct perspective on a perfect storm of events reflecting environmental and emotional collapse. Reviewed by Samantha Hui.
Tag: Novella
STARRED Book Review: To the Woman in the Pink Hat
TO THE WOMAN IN THE PINK HAT by LaToya Jordan is a powerful exploration of racial inequality through the lens of feminist sci-fi. Reviewed and starred by IBR senior reviewer Joelene Pynnonen.
Book Review: Dagny
DAGNY by Matt Luedke is a whirlwind expedition of mystery and discovery. Check out what Audrey Davis has to say in her book review of this indie fantasy novella.
STARRED Book Review: Bardo
Unique and meaningfully disorienting—BARDO by Joseph Edwin Haeger explores the space between death and rebirth, between vengeance and coming to terms with a guilt-ridden life.
Book Review: Movement
MOVEMENT by James Ashton is a circular novella that oscillates between radicalism and mundanity in an increasingly broken society. Check out what Timothy Thomas has to say in his book review of this indie literary novel.
Book Review: Mark of the Goddess
MARK OF THE GODDESS by A.L. Kaplan is an empowering novella that demonstrates the bravery of teenage girls and the magic within people who have been oppressed. Check out what Andrea Marks-Joseph has to say in her book review of this indie fantasy.
Book Review: A Batch of Twenty
A BATCH OF TWENTY by Chris Edwards is a strangely transfixing hard sci-fi story with Artificial Intelligence, sentient manufactured people, and cookies. Check out what Joshua Ryan Bligh’s book review of this indie science fiction novel.
Book Review: Gender
GENDER: Two Novellas in Verse by Anne Harding Woodworth is a book of two searching, intriguing tales that explore gender as myth. Check out what Tucker Lieberman has to say in his review of this indie poetry book.
Book Review: Hard Mother, Spider Mother, Soft Mother
HARD MOTHER, SPIDER MOTHER, SOFT MOTHER by Hal Y. Zhang is one novella in a science fiction series by Radix Media. It’s an optimistically melancholic look at mental illness and the relationship between mother and daughter. Check out what Joshua Ryan Bligh has to say about it.
Book Review: Bottled Goods
BOTTLED GOODS by Sophie van Llewyn is a powerful, sophistocated, emotional delve into Soviet-era Romania through the eyes and heart of a young woman. Check out what Rosa Kumar of Independent Book Review has to say in her book review of this Fairlight Books novella.