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Review: House of Frank - Kay Synclair
Genre: Cozy Fantasy Published: Bindery Books, October 2024 My Rating: 2.5/5 stars "It’s strange how grief works. I was content, walking...
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Review: Smothermoss - Alisa Alering
Genre: Literary fiction, magical realism Published: Tin House Books & Recorded Books Audio, July 2024 My Rating: 3.5 stars “(you are)...
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Magical Realism Favourites
For quite some time, magical realism was my most read genre, so there wasn’t a lack of titles to choose from when it came to selecting my...
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Review: The Pecan Children - Quinn Connor
Genre: Magical Realism, Mystery, Horror Published: Sourcebooks Landmark, June 2024 My Rating: 3/5 stars Last year around this time I...
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Review: Meet Me at the Surface - Jodie Matthews
Genre: Literary Fiction, Magical Realism Published: Fourth Estate, February 2024 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "Everything that comes from the...
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Review: Monstrum - Lottie Mills
Genre: Magical Realism, Short Stories Published: Oneworld Publications, May 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars “Then she takes her husband’s hand,...
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Review: Sheine Lende - Darcie Little Badger
Genre: Magical Realism, middle-grade/young adult Published: Levine Querido, April 2024 My Rating: 5/5 stars with a warming ghostly...
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Review: The Cemetery of Untold Stories - Julia Alvarez
Genre: Literary Fiction, Magical Realism Published: Algonquin Books/Recorded Books Audio, April 2024 My Rating: 3.5/5 stars “It’s a...
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Review: A Botanical Daughter -
Genre: Magical realism, horror, classics-retold Published: Titan Books, March 2024 My Rating: 4/5 stars “A family! Simon, of course!...
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Review: Now She is Witch - Kirsty Logan
Genre: Magical Realism/Fantasy Published: Harvill Secker, January 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “Perhaps coming so close to death, then...
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Review: Mothtown - Caroline Hardaker
Genre: Magical Realism, Horror, Speculative Published: Angry Robot Press, November 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars “No. This was a truth that I...
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Review: Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit - Jen Campbell
Genre: Poetry Published: Bloodaxe Books, September 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars, potential new all-time favourite <I>"The hospital is not a...
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Review: Swim Home to the Vanished - Brendan Shay Basham
Genre: Magical Realism Published: Harper Collins, August 2023 My rating: 4.5/5 stars "When you lose someone close, you travel to the...
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Review: Summer Fishing in Lapland - Juhani Karila
Genre: magical realism Published: Pushkin Press, July 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summer Fishing in Lapland has been out for a few years...
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Review: Elatsoe - Darcie Little Badger
Genre: Magical Realism, Young-Adult Published: Levine Querido, August 2020 My Rating: 5/5 stars, all-time favourite Elatsoe (both the...
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Review: Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves - Quinn Connor
Genre: Magical Realism, horror Published: Sourcebooks Landmark, May 30th 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars "The dead have a tight grip on this...
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Review: Wolfwood - Marianna Baer
Genre: Young Adult contemporary, magical realism Published: Amulet Books/Tantor Audio, March 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars “What does it...
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Review: The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts - Soraya Porter
Genre: Magical Realism Published: Viper Publishing, March 2023 My Rating: 4.5/5 stars "See once upon a time there was a woman. And this...
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Review: Monstrilio - Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Genre: Speculative horror Published: Zando Projects, March 2023 My Rating: 3/5 stars "He wasn’t Monstrilio anymore, but he wasn’t...
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Review: Catfish Rolling - Clara Kumagai
Genre: Magical Realism, Science fiction, Grief Published: Zephyr, March 2023 My Rating: 5/5 stars, potential new favourite "In the zone,...
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