Margot McGovern reviews Simmone Howell’s smart ‘n’ sassy YA novel, Girl Defective. Girl Defective is the story of the […]
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Margot McGovern reviews Julia Heaberlin’s psychological thriller, Black-Eyed Susans. Tessie grew up in a fairytale, both grim and Grimm: […]
Margot McGovern reviews Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies, a tragic love story in modern America. A thick drizzle from the […]
Margot McGovern reviews Ruth Ware’s smart and chilling debut thriller, In a Dark, Dark Wood (Harvill Secker, 2015). A good […]
Margot McGovern reviews Scarlett Thomas’s The Seed Collectors (2015), a smart, twisting story of forbidden fruit and family secrets. […]
Margot McGovern reviews We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves (Penguin, 2013) by Karen Joy Fowler. A note before […]
Margot McGovern reviews Susan Hill’s Gothic chiller The Woman in Black (1983). When a thick yellow fog settles over […]
Margot McGovern reviews Alice Pung’s YA novel, Laurinda. Fifteen-year-old Lucy Lam can’t believe her luck when she wins a […]
Margot McGovern reflects on reading Marisha Pessl‘s eerie Gothic thriller, Night Film (2013). This is actually a sneaky […]
Margot McGovern reviews Emily St. John Mandel‘s Station Eleven (2014). Dr. Eleven stands on dark rocks overlooking an indigo […]
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