A SUMMER’S SPOOKY IDYLL for teens in the blush of first love grows increasingly terrifying. Smart, understated horror with a gorgeously realized setting. B PLUS

A HOUSE AT THE BOTTOM OF A LAKE
Del Rey
2021

WILDLY INVENTIVE NOVEL combines vivid, evocative realism with stunningly bizarre situations to great satiric effect. It’s the Candide of the 21st century, if Voltaire had been great at details and dialogue. SOLID A

MY YEAR ABROAD
Riverhead Books
2021

AN ANGRY VOODOO QUEEN with demon minions? Alice will face anything to get her fiancé back. Sweet paranormal romance with some fascinating details. SOLID B

ALICE AND THE VOODOO QUEEN: A PARANORMAL URBAN FANTASY NOVELLA
K. R. S. McEntire
2020