🖋️ Author: Sara Cooper 📖 Title: Ravenous 📅 Pub Day: Aug 13, 2026 💌 Publisher: Roseway Publishing 📚 Format: Digital 🏷️ ISBN: 9781773638393 ⏱️ Length: 245 pages 📌 Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Satirical Fiction, and Horror ⭐ Star Rating: 5

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A new Weird Girl Fic has entered the chat. OBSESSED!

I genuinely don't know how to explain this book. Momfluencer gone very, very strange is the best I've got. Breigh is quite possibly one of the most insufferable, chaotic main characters I've had the pleasure of reading, and I mean that as the highest compliment. You're simultaneously horrified by her and completely unable to look away.

This is a wild, unhinged, anxiety inducing read that I enjoyed every single second of. The writing is unique in a way that's hard to put into words because it shouldn't flow as well as it does given how absolutely bananas the story gets, and yet it somehow does. Somehow every awful choice Breigh makes feels exactly like the choice she'd make.

I also wanted to mention that Sara herself reached out when I had trouble accessing my NetGalley copy and was genuinely one of the kindest, most gracious authors I've ever interacted with. ♡

This is one heck of a debut and I'll be first in line for whatever Sara Cooper writes next.

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If you like:

✔️ unhinged unreliable narrators ✔️ momfluencer culture satire ✔️ weird girl litfic ✔️ dark comedy ✔️ books that give you genuine anxiety ✔️ social media horror

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Thank you to NetGalley, Sara Cooper, and Roseway Publishing for gifting this ARC in exchange for an honest review! All opinions are my own.

🖋️ Author: Becky Mandelbaum 📖 Title: Homewrecker 📅 Pub Day: Jun 1, 2027 💌 Publisher: Spiegel & Grau 📚 Format: Digital 🏷️ ISBN: 9781966302506 ⏱️ Length: 336 pages 📌 Genre(s): Literary Fiction, Contemporary Fiction, and Domestic Fiction ⭐ Star Rating: 5

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There are books you pick up for a reason and end up reading for a completely different one. I initially chose Homewrecker for the NetGalley Camp 2026 badge, fully expecting a messy, dramatic love triangle between Piper, Veronica and Aaron. And we absolutely got that. But I was not prepared for what this book actually did to me.

From the very first page the writing impressed me. I knew pretty quickly that I was going to love this one. Becky Mandelbaum's prose is sharp and unassuming, and I was completely absorbed before I even realized how invested I'd gotten.

The dynamic between Piper and Aaron is exactly as complicated and infuriating as you'd want it to be. But the thread that completely undid me was the relationship between Piper and her recently passed brother Jonah. Having lost someone in a similar way, I felt that storyline in my chest in a way I genuinely wasn't expecting. It was devastating and cathartic in equal measure, and it gave the messy, complicated story so much more emotional weight than I was expecting.

I'll absolutely be buying a physical copy when it releases.

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If you like:

✔️ messy love triangles ✔️ literary fiction ✔️ complicated characters ✔️ stories about grief and healing ✔️ family drama ✔️ cathartic reads

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Thank you to NetGalley, Becky Mandelbaum, and Spiegel & Grau for gifting this ARC in exchange for an honest review! All opinions are my own.

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