The Lover by Silvia Moreno-Garcia My rating: 5 of 5 stars I wanted to start the year with something quick and sharp, and this story definitely did the trick. Judith longs to be free and escapes to a small shack in the woods whenever she can. Still, she can't escape all the chores a…

Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood-drinkers, is smart and beautiful - and v…

THE WIRED CITY (Weird. Wonderful. Other Worlds 2): Yolanda Sfetsos HARROW LAKE: Kat Ellis RULES FOR VANISHING: Kate Alice Marshall MERIDIAN: Amber Kizer DEAD SILENCE (The Body Finder #4): Kimberly Derting YOU MUST NOT MISS: Katrina Leno TWO CAN KEEP A SECRET: Karen M McManus IRONSIDE (Mod…

When glamorous socialite Noemi Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging to be rescued from a mysterious doom, it's clear something is desperately amiss. Catalina has always had a flair for the dramatic, but her claims that her husband is poisoning her and…

Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, even though she'…

1970s Mexico City: while student protests and political unrest consume the city, Maite seeks escape from her humdrum life in the stories of passion and danger filling the latest issue of Secret Romance. She is deeply envious of her neighbour, a beautiful art student apparently living th…

Carlota Moreau: A young woman, growing up in a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatan peninsula, the only daughter of a genius - or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past and a propensity for alcohol, an outcast w…

THE LOVER: Silvia Moreno-Garcia THE TIGER CAME TO THE MOUNTAINS: Silvia Moreno-Garcia HER HEART BEATS FOR ANCIENT BEASTS: Calvin Demmer OPEN HOUSE: Nico Bell BLACK VAULT : Alma Katsu MANDY: Stephanie Sparks THROUGH THE BLUR: Yolanda Sfetsos HELENA: Claire L. Smith TRUE CRIME: Samantha Kol…

Baja California, 1979: Viridiana spends her days under the harsh sun, watching the fishermen pulling in their nets and the dead sharks piled beside the seashore. Her head is filled with dreams of romance, travel and of a future beyond this drab town where her only option is to marry and h…

They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail's most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina's chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun and already Nina's debut has gone disastrously awry. She ha…

IN AN ABSENT DREAM (Wayward Children #4): Seanan McGuire JUICE LIKE WOUNDS (Wayward Children #4.5): Sean McGuire THE TOLL HOUSE: Carly Reagon THE LITTLE WITCH: M. Rickert THE COLOUR OF EVIL: Sarah Jane Huntington BAD DOLLS: Rachel Harrison ALL THE LIVING AND THE DEAD: Hayley Campbell EMIL…