Hi, I was bored of my old graphic, so here is a new one! Also, this batch is the last of my March books- and what a wild ride it was! Some were awesome, some bummed me out a bit, so do check it out!

You Did Nothing Wrong by G.G. Drews
Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
I Love You Don’t Die by Jade Song
Crawlspace by Adam Christopher
Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw by Eric LaRocca
Shake Out the Ghosts by Al Hess

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You Did Nothing Wrong by C.G. Drews
Published by St. Martin's Press on March 17, 2026
Pages: 304
Format:eARC
Source:Copy provided by publisher for review, via Netgalley

A relentless, horror-inducing psychological suspense for fans of The Push and Baby Teeth by New York Times bestselling author CG Drews.

Single mother Elodie’s life has become a fairy tale. She’s met Bren, equal parts golden-retriever devoted and sinfully handsome. He’s whisked her and her autistic son, Jude, to the crumbling family house he’s renovating. She has a new husband, a new house, and a new baby on the way. Everything is perfect.

Then Jude claims he can hear voices in the walls. He says their renovations are “hurting” the house. Even Elodie can’t ignore it–something strange is going on. The question is, is it with the house, or with her son?

Then the one secret Elodie has been hiding is revealed, and no one is safe anymore.

A pulse-pounding, clever take on the haunted house novel, You Did Nothing Wrong examines the complexities of motherhood and the twisted bonds of family as it races to its shocking ending.

So, when I first finished You Did Nothing Wrong, I was like “solid book, definitely enjoyed!”, right? But friends, it unsettled me. For like, a while! I knew it had great vibes, and I was wholly invested in the story, but I didn’t anticipate how that feeling would get under my skin! And for that, I absolutely must give props to C.G. Drews, because that is something that just doesn’t usually happen to me!

Elodie is such a messy bitch, and I don’t even mean that in a negative way. She is just… you know stuff is up with her. She is keeping all kinds of things hidden from her new husband Bren, and you can just tell she’s harboring a lot. Also, she’s a very young mother of a six year old with autism, and pregnant with her second child having just moved across the world, so it is a lot to handle. Plus, her son is not adjusting well at all, and he is convinced that the house is sentient, and she is convinced that he hates her. You see, she’s going through it.

I don’t want to say much else, because you have to go along for the ride to really understand the magic of this book. And the magic is, it is going to make you feel so uncomfy without you even realizing it. MAGIC, I say! And, obviously you need to know all the things, because how exactly is Elodie and Bren’s seemingly idyllic romance going to navigate all of this change? What is the deal with the house? Who is hiding what? The questions and the secrets are magnificent, so go read the thing!

Bottom Line: This was straight up like watching a spooky movie and needing to sleep with the lights on because you just do not feel okay. Loved it.

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Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
Published by Tor Nightfire on March 24, 2026
Pages: 288
Format:eARC
Source:Copy provided by publisher for review, via Netgalley

Something darker than the devil stalks the North Carolina woods in Wolf Worm, a new gothic masterpiece from New York Times bestselling author T. Kingfisher.

The year is 1899 and Sonia Wilson is a scientific illustrator without work, prospects, or hope. When the reclusive Dr. Halder offers her a position illustrating his vast collection of insects, Sonia jumps at the chance to move to his North Carolina manor house and put her talents to use. But soon enough she finds that there are darker things at work than the Carolina woods. What happened to her predecessor, Halder’s wife? Why are animals acting so strangely, and what is behind the peculiar local whispers about “blood thiefs?”

With the aid of the housekeeper and a local healer, Sonia discovers that Halder’s entomological studies have taken him down a dark road full of parasitic maggots that burrow into human flesh, and that his monstrous experiments may grow to encompass his newest illustrator as well.

Wolf Worm is good throughout, but the last quarter of the book was like, next-level! Now look, bugs are not my jam. I am not interested in them, I do not want to paint them like Sonia, and I definitely don’t want to touch them and look at their intricacies. No thank you. But, I also understand their importance in nature and science and such, so yeah. Sonia is sort of… lost. I feel like I do wish we learned a little more about her backstory, but a minor gripe, really. She’s a fun character, as all T. Kingfisher characters are wont to be.

This is a quick story, especially once it gets going. The beginning is a wee bit slow, but when it picks up… whew. The time period of the late 1800s definitely adds to the eeriness of the story. Obviously, being in the middle of nowhere with a mighty strange bug man is going to feel creepy, but the isolation of that time adds to the atmosphere, no question. Then when animals start behaving strangely, well, I could not put the book down.

I want to tell you more- there is so much cool stuff that happens in the second half that I would love to chat with you about, so maybe you just read the book, and then come back and chat? It is a wild ride!

Bottom Line: A bit of a slower start leads to an unputdownable, bonkers end that I could not stop reading.

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I Love You Don't Die by Jade Song
Published by William Morrow on March 17, 2026
Pages: 288
Format:eARC
Source:Copy provided by publisher for review, via Netgalley

Acclaimed author Jade Song (Chlorine) returns with her latest literary exploration: a lyrical, poignant, and heartfelt novel about the meaning of love, friendship, debt, depression, and death in New York City—a coming-of-age for a new generation, in the vein of Sally Rooney and Ottessa Moshfegh.

For as far back as she can remember, Vicky has been fascinated and obsessed with death as the only inevitable thing in life. From living above a Chinatown funeral parlor to working at a celebrity start-up for bespoke urns, she has surrounded herself with death—in her home, in her work, and in her ever-growing collection of zhizha, paper creations meant to be burned for the dead, adorning the walls of her apartment. Yet, though living in Manhattan and working her dream job is all she ever wanted, she still struggles to have meaningful connections—or find any meaning at all—in her life. Too often she spends the day in bed, only drawn out from time to time by her best (and only) friend, Jen.

That changes when a dating app leads her into a throuple with an artist and a labor organizer, who offer exactly the kind of love she needs. For some time, it’s perfect, but no one understands better than Vicky that all things must end. As doubts grow over the love in her life, her friendship with Jen, and her professional success, the oddly comforting abstraction of death starts becoming something else altogether. With everything beginning to feel hollow and temporary, Vicky must decide how to keep moving forward. To try and hold on to what she has, or to once again do what she does best: destroy.

TW at start: “This novel carries darkness such as depression, anxiety, self-harm, disordered eating, suicide, and suicidal ideation—please be aware of this content, and, if needed, refer to the resources at the back of the book for support.”

Jade Song’s debut, Chlorine, is a favorite of mine. So to say my expectations were high would be an understatement. Frankly, they were probably too high, and that is on me. And look, I didn’t hate the book or anything! I just felt.. a little underwhelmed. Vicky is navigating adulthood, work issues, mental health struggles, and friendship and relationship management in today’s societal hellscape, so I automatically sympathized with her.

“Nobody is free. Every choice is dependent on cash flow or community or citizenship—the combination of such or the lack thereof.”

I mean, right!? I love the author’s insight, as always. Vicky is kind of obsessed with death, and the fact that we can’t avoid death, no matter how much we want to, and it is causing her a lot of distress. And as someone who has a very significant amount of anxiety and depression over death, I get this! Hell, I appreciate reading about this!

“Everybody is unhappy and everybody is dying. It isn’t that Vicky doesn’t care. More that she cares so much that the inordinate amount paralyzes her. Easier to ignore the truth of imminent monotonous disaster. Easier to stay in bed.”

When I tell you that I feel Vicky, I do, so very much, and I love how the author writes characters who are messy and imperfect. The thing is, I don’t feel like Vicky learned a lot from anything that happened (and frankly, not a ton happened), and I wish there had been a bit more focus on the fact that this endless sadness isn’t really healthy, but also, that it could be helped! I liked her friendship with Jen, and that she had her “person” who would stand by her even when she was being a little insufferable. The throuple thing… look, I am always a big “you do you” advocate, but Vicky didn’t actually seem to like the dude, Kevin, at all? And he didn’t seem to like her? So it felt like… Idk, less of a healthy relationship, and more like they both just wanted to be left alone with Angela. Which again, is fine, but wasn’t explored. I also kind of knew how it was all going to shake out from the very start, so that probably didn’t help matters.

Vicky’s job is, ironically, a death-focused company that makes urns, started by some celeb who lost his whole family in a horrific crash. I liked that Vicky kind of leaned into her discomfort to literally work with death, but the whole situation needed to either be delved into deeper, or shallower, but as it was, it became a bit of a loose thread for me, even though it was (oddly, IMO) wrapped up.

Bottom Line:  10/10 for the themes and the writing, but I just didn’t feel the story itself nearly as much as Chlorine.

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Crawlspace by Adam Christopher
Published by Tor Nightfire on March 17, 2026
Pages: 240
Format:eARC
Source:Copy provided by publisher for review, via Netgalley

Enter an edge-of-your-seat nightmare to the darkest frontiers in Crawlspace , an SF horror novel from New York Times bestselling author Adam Christopher, perfect for fans of S.A. Barnes and Event Horizon .

Mission Lead Olivia O’Connor and her team from the Artemis Corporation, along with their military liaison, are in the final preparations for a undertaking that will alter the course of human the first faster than light test flight that finally opening up the expanse of the universe.

But their journey between dimensions is one they never trained for. Strange voices in the corridors. Long lost faces not forgotten. Strange symbols carved into the hull. And gathering outside the ship, ancient forces beyond reckoning.

The crew will need all their skills to survive and uncover the twisted truth behind their mission.

Commencing countdown...

So, the premise is so cool for Crawlspace: basically, this crew ends up caught in… I don’t even know, non-space? They’re stuck in literally nowhere, no light, no means of escape. And some kind of space entity is messing with them, too. Sounds exciting! I do love me a space horror, so I was immediately intrigued. The story started off a little rough, because there was a lot of tech-related info-dumping at the start, which made it feel very dense. But I went with it, because I really wanted to know what happened to this ship!

That’s the rub- I needed to know what happened. So I kept reading, despite the fact that I felt a bit underwhelmed. The characters were incredibly flat, and I felt like we knew nothing about them, though I held out hope that we might learn a bit more about them as the story progressed and they had to handle whatever this situation threw at them (reader, we did not). Liv was the main character, but the only thing I knew about her was that she was a pilot. That is literally it. The others were also just definitions of their roles on the ship, and one girl had a dead sister. This is the only personal fact we know about any of them. Family? Friends? Lovers? Your guess is as good as mine.

Yet I still wanted to know what was going on! So, I kept on keeping on. The vibes were pretty good, I will give it that- you could tell that it was a messed up situation, and that things were desperate and scary. But because I did not know a blessed thing about any of the characters, it was really hard to care what happened to them. Like okay that one dude is gone? Bummer I guess. Oh is he back? Fine enough, okay. It just didn’t matter, because there was no emotional connection between the characters at all.

Then toward the end, things just got even more unhinged, and I dare say a little… silly? I think it was supposed to be a bigger deal, but I didn’t love it. View Spoiler »And then it ended in an incredibly open way that made me stabby because that is the whole reason I kept reading! « Hide Spoiler

Bottom Line: I’ll give it two stars for the vibes, and the fact that despite everything, I still wanted to know how it ended. I am probably being generous.

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Wretch: or, The Unbecoming of Porcelain Khaw by Eric LaRocca
Published by S&S/Saga Press on March 24, 2026
Pages: 288
Format:eARC
Source:Copy provided by publisher for review, via Netgalley

From rising horror star and award-winning author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke comes a nightmarish, haunting, tech-Gothic thrill ride about sorrow, memory, and the unabashed complexity of love as a transgressive act.

After his husband dies, Simeon Link finds himself overcome by grief and seeking comfort in an unusual support group called The Wretches, who offer an addictive and dangerous source of relief. They introduce Simeon to a curious figure known as Porcelain Khaw—a man with the ability to let those who are grieving have one last intimate moment with their beloved...for a price.

Hallucinatory, fiendish, and destructively beautiful, Wretch transports us to a world where not everything is as it seems, and those we love may be the ones who haunt us most.

TW: Suicidal ideation. Like, lots of it. Among other things that feel too spoilery to mention.

Wow this book is messed up. From the start, you can tell it is going to be, but then you get into it and… horror really is the perfect category for it, that is for sure! That said, I am torn on how I felt about it. I will say this: I could not put it down because I was absolutely invested. It might have been in the way one can’t look away from a train wreck, but it’s still morbidly intriguing.

Our main character, Simeon… well, to put it very bluntly, he sucks. And at first I was a little annoyed by this, by this whiny, selfish man who spends most of his life waxing poetic about how deeply he has suffered, more suffering than any human has ever undertaken, all the while blithely ignoring his son because he hasn’t the fucks to give. And look- grief truly is a beast, there is no doubt. But make no mistake, Simeon was hardly a shining bastion of human decency before his husband died, so we can cross that excuse off the list. But here’s the thing: I daresay that if Simeon was likeable, this book may have been too hard to handle. Too depressing, too upsetting. Had we followed the woman we meet in the prologue, I’d have been weeping by the second chapter. But Simeon, in his sheer unlikability, makes the reader more able to engage in the story without wanting to yeet themselves into a river or something.

That said, some of Simeon’s musings did make me a little too uncomfy: his (at times) flat out disdain for his child, and his constant insistence that gay men were incapable of sustaining monogamous relationships. Like dude, just because you’re a jerk, don’t paint all gay men in the same light! Seemed wrong to me, especially because it was never really argued against in any way. I also simply don’t think this dude was capable of love. Most of his “fondest” memories of Jonathon involve sex, and he doesn’t really mention much of who Jonathan was as an actual human being.

I also would have liked a bit more of the story of the Wretches, since they are the titular entity but don’t get a ton of page time. They were fascinating to me! I’d also love more backstory on Porcelain Khaw! But overall, the story was engaging, the atmosphere was disturbingly on point, and I was entertained (and appalled!) throughout. The ending is probably a bit divisive, but I actually think it worked quite well here, and I wasn’t mad at it! I would also read another book in this world, fwiw.

Bottom Line:  The one instance where I feel like having an unlikable MC actually really works!

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Shake Out the Ghosts by Al Hess
Published by Angry Robot on March 17, 2026
Pages: 288
Format:eARC, Paperback
Source:Copy provided by publisher for review, via Netgalley

From the author of World Running Down and Key Lime Sky comes a beautifully funny, heart-wrenching contemporary queer romance with a magical twist.

Nine months ago, a brutal assault in his studio apartment left eccentric portrait artist Micah Wildsmith with facial scars and PTSD. He’s struggled to leave the apartment ever since, and experiences panic attacks if anyone else enters it while he’s there. To make matters worse, Micah begins to sense another presence in the apartment.

He puts the 80s synthpop down to inconsiderate neighbors, and the shadows down to paranoia. But when saccharin platitudes inexplicably start appearing on the bathroom mirror, and Micah learns the previous resident, Cosmo, died, he’s convinced his apartment is haunted. When Cosmo’s form materializes in front of Micah, he’s struck by the spectre’s beauty and mystery. Cosmo is safe company inside the studio, and Micah no longer wants him to leave.

Meanwhile, dramatic sculpture artist Cosmo Koslov is mourning the shambles of his love life. His boyfriend has cheated on him. Again. If that weren’t bad enough, his studio in the Artists’ District is haunted. He thought the “on hold” music and faint phone conversations were a neighbor, and the replies to his mirror messages his ex. But when a bespectacled man with an eye socket of scars appears – then evaporates – there’s no other explanation. And no matter how intrigued Cosmo is by the macabre, when finally faced with something paranormal, his first instinct is to move out.

Now the enchanting apparition in Micah’s apartment has disappeared. Desperate to lure him back, Micah searches for more details about Cosmo and discovers… Cosmo isn’t dead. The very alive socialite and fixture of the city’s art scene works in a gallery just down the block. Fueled by a desire to understand the mystery in the studio and – more importantly – get closer to his new crush, Micah fights through his anxiety to seek him out. But Cosmo is not without his own ghosts. In order to find a future in which they can both be happy and together, Micah and Cosmo need to confront their trauma once and for all.

I swear, only Al Hess can write books that give me the warm fuzzies despite being paranormal. This was a really bizarre, yet heartwarming story. Micah and Cosmo are both artists, and I won’t lie, I do not care about art, but I cared about both of these characters, that is for sure! I think I found myself relating more to Micah, but they were both genuinely wonderful. They’d both been through some pretty heavy stuff, and I loved that they were able to find each other in this… I have no idea what to call it? Time warp? Universe warp? Look, I have no idea, but it is so fun.

Honestly, if you haven’t already, I wouldn’t even read the full synopsis, because I think it gives away too much, which I will not do here. I will just tell you that I loved the entire cast of characters (well- the ones we’re meant to love, anyway), and I was so glad that our main characters found such lovely people to surround themselves with. And the speculative/paranormal part was so interesting! I won’t say much about it, only that I was so curious! It made the story itself exciting beyond just the enjoyment of the characters (which frankly were enough in their own right), and I really loved the whole darn thing!

Bottom Line: Incredibly written characters that made my heart happy, Shake Out the Ghosts also provided a fun story that kept me guessing!

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