In a dystopian North America, a boy is pulled into the competition of a lifetime. The winner is guaranteed to never go hungry again, but the losers never make it out alive. The 50th Hunger Games have arrived, and sixteen-year-old Haymitch Abernathy must go into the arena to fight for his life. Suzanne Collins takes […]
“Witchcraft for Wayward Girls” by Grady Hendrix
June 16, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Jess Burtis At a maternity home in rural Florida, a teenage girl finds herself abandoned by her family and far from her life in Alabama. Fern is pregnant. It’s a transgression shared by the other young, unmarried girls at the Home for Unwed Mothers. There, in the sweltering summer of 1970, Neva learns […]
Jess Burtis
June 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Jess Burtis is an avid reader and Southern Gothic enthusiast. She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin with an M.Phil in Literature, and she received her B.A. from Appalachian State University. Born and raised in the Carolinas, Jess is a fan of Southern writers, particularly Flannery O’Connor and Zora Neale Hurston. When Jess isn’t […]