Audiobook Reviews

DOA in a Florida HOA

9 July 2025

DOA in a Florida HOA by Ralph Monti is a murder mystery wrapped in the aggressively manicured nightmare of suburban HOA life. I’ve heard nightmare stories of power-tripping HOA presidents and committees enforcing ridiculous rules to an absurd degree but […]

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The Lights of Prague

8 July 2025

The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis is a gothic historical fantasy set in the shadowy streets of 1800s Prague, where lamplighters not only keep the gaslights burning but also defend the city from supernatural threats. On the surface it

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Review Fantasy

A Market in the Maelstrom

4 July 2025

A Market in the Maelstrom by Harmon Cooper wraps up The Cozy Abyss trilogy… sort of, anyway. According to the blurb, it’s the final book in the series, but if that’s the case, the ending makes little sense. A new

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Review Fantasy

The Witch Who Trades with Death

1 July 2025

The Witch Who Trades with Death by C.M. Alongi is a dark fantasy that took a little while to grab me, and even once it did, it never quite held on as tightly as I’d hoped. That’s not to say

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Review LitRPG

Discount Dan

27 June 2025

Discount Dan’s Backroom Bargains by James Hunter is a survival-heavy LitRPG that dumps its everyman hero into a chaotic alternate reality and tells him to figure it out fast or die trying. If you’ve read Dungeon Crawler Carl (DCC), you’ll

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Review Contemporary

Life Hacks for a Little Alien

24 June 2025

Life Hacks for a Little Alien by Alice Franklin is a thoughtful and quietly devastating story about a neurodivergent girl trying to make sense of a world that rarely makes sense back. It’s written in second person, technically, but not

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Review Fantasy

Dreadful

20 June 2025

Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis is a fantasy novel that kicks off with a man waking up with no memory, only to discover he’s apparently the dark wizard everyone fears. He’s got a tower, a reputation for being utterly dreadful, and

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Review Science Fiction

The Humans

17 June 2025

The Humans by Matt Haig is a sci-fi-tinged meditation on what it means to be human, told through the eyes of an alien who starts off utterly horrified and bewildered by us humanity. He’s sent to Earth to prevent our

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Review RomCom

Vengeance Planning for Amateurs

12 June 2025

Vengeance Planning for Amateurs by Lee Winter is a delightfully offbeat romantic comedy that blends revenge, romance, and absurdity into a heartwarming narrative. Set in Melbourne, Australia, the story follows Olivia Roberts, a muffin baker pushed to her limits by

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Review Fantasy

Wriggly Little Hands

9 June 2025

Wriggly Little Hands by Alex Knight is a goblin-fuelled fantasy romp full of silliness, chaos, and Soundbooth Theater’s usual high-energy production. It’s the kind of audiobook that throws jokes, voices, and absurdities at you with such speed you barely have

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Review Fiction

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop

5 June 2025

Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-reum is a quietly moving slice-of-life story about stepping off the treadmill and into something more meaningful, even if you’re not entirely sure what that is yet. Yeongju, the central character, leaves behind

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Review Science Fiction

Schrodinger’s Cottage

2 June 2025

Schrodinger’s Cottage by David Luddington is a charming bit of humorous science fiction with a distinctive English flavour. It leans more toward quirky alternate-realities than outright sci-fi in that it’s set in a small village near Glastonbury and focused less

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