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Book Review  Title: When Shadows Burn by Todd Brown  Genre: Crime, Thriller, Horror  Rating: 4.5 Stars  Todd Brown’s When Shadows Burn is a compelling exploration of psychological darkness, trauma, and survival, blending elements of horror and emotional depth in a way that lingers long after the final page. Rather than relying solely on external threats or shock value, Brown focuses his narrative on the human mind—how fear shapes us, how memory haunts us, and how ordinary peo

Book Review  Title: Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us about Breasts by Sarah Thornton  Genre: Non-Fiction, Social Issues, Women’s Issues  Rating: 4.5 stars  Sarah Thornton’s Tits Up is an ambitious and deeply researched cultural exploration of the breast—an object at once biological, erotic, symbolic, commercial, and often deeply political. Known for her ethnographic approach to contemporary cultural phenomena, Thorn

Book Review  Title: The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution  by  Faramerz Dabhoiwala  Genre: Non-Fiction, Social Issues, History  Rating: 4.25 Stars  Faramerz Dabhoiwala’s  The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution  presents a compelling and meticulously researched account of how Western attitudes toward sex, morality, and individual freedom underwent a profound transformation between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. By situati

Book Review  Title: Kinky History: A Rollicking Journey through Our Sexual Past, Present, and Future by Esme Louise James  Genre:...

Book Review   Title: Traces: The Memoir of a Forensic Scientist and Criminal Investigator by Patricia Wiltshire   Genre: Memoir,...

Book Review Title: Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin Genre: Historical, Fantasy, Dragons Rating: 4.5 Stars George R. R. Martin’s Fire...

Book Review  Title: For the First Time, Again by Sylvain Neuvel (Take Them to the Stars Book 3)  Genre: Science-Fiction, Historical  ...

Book Review  Title: Blasphear by Sohail Rauf   Genre: Literary Fiction, Crime   Rating: 4.5 Stars   Sohail Rauf’s Blasphear is a gripping...

Book Review  Title: Incandescence by Mehreen Ahmed   Genre: Literary Fiction, Drama  Rating: 4 Stars   Mehreen Ahmed’s Incandescence is a...

Book Review Title: The Atlanta Child Murders: The Night Stalker by Jack Mallard Genre: Non-Fiction, Crime Rating: 3.75 Stars In The...

Book Review Title: Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid Genre: Science/Crime Rating: 4.5...

Book Review  Title: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari  Genre: Science/History  Rating: 4.25 Stars   Sapiens...

Book Review  Title: Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish by John Hargrove  Genre: Memoir,...

Book Review   Title: The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang  Genre: History  Rating: 5 Stars  The...

Book Review  Title: Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky  Genre: History, Science, Food  Rating: 3 Stars   I picked this book up...

Book Review  Title: In the Company of Crows and Ravens by John M. Marzluff  Genre: Science, Nature  Rating: 3.75 Stars  In the Company of...

Book Review  Title: Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of the Old World by Steve Brusatte Genre: Science/History  Rating: 4...

Book Review  Title: Porn: An Oral History by Polly Barton  Genre: Social Commentary  Rating: 3.25 Stars   When I read the synopsis of...

Book Review  Title: Bizarre: The Most Peculiar Cases of Human Behavior and What They Tell Us About How the Brain Works by Marc Dingman ...

Book Review  Title: This Dark Descent by Kalyn Josephson (This Dark Descent Book 1)   Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy  Rating: 4 Stars ...