The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton ★★★★★

Clue meets Dark Matter. 

Damn but this was good. Seven Deaths was the smartest murder mystery I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. An incomparable masterwork of the Who-Done-It genre.

The Necromancer's House by Christopher Buehlman ★★★★★

My favorite Buehlman to date.

Dark urban fantasy with shades of American Gods, only Russian and wretched. 

Engines of Desire: Tales of Love and Other Horrors by Livia Llewellyn

Take Your Daughter to Work ★★★★★ 

Sex as something pleasurable, soft and warm, is a mammalian concept. In the cold salty dark of fathoms, it’s not even survivable. This short story built in scales and slithers to a chilling reimagining of Lovecraftian horror.

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins ★★★★★

I promise you that if you stick with this book it will make sense. That said, this is a gory, violent, funny, urban fantasy that does not welcome you with logic.  

Kraken by M. Caspian ★★★☆☆

Not your average slash. This is a story of a very lonely odd man named Will who misses his ex boyfriend Parker. He has come out to some small god forsaken island to see if they can't work it out. 

The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan ★★★★☆

“We weave necessary fictions, and sometimes they save us. Our minds, our bodies.” 

- Imp

“You know now that you’ll never be sure what happened?” 
- Dr. Ogilvy 

Wow. So there are unreliable narrators and then there are schizophrenics. Had I never read PKD I would have been unprepared.

The Devourers by Indra Das ★☆☆☆☆

This was the most disgusting book I've ever read and I recently finished Dreamcatcher, King's ode to farts, diarrhea, and shit weasels. 

This was worse. 

Hunting the Merrow (The Merrow Trilogy #2) by Heather Rigney ★★☆☆☆

Gruesome, brutal, and bleak.

Lots of rape and slaughter.

With a hopeless ending. 

Why? Why? Why?!?!

Waking the Merrow (The Merrow Trilogy #1) by Heather Rigney ★★★★☆

"They were the wide eyes of her aquatic cousins, unmistakable with the unnaturally large eye-sockets and light-colored irises. He was a merrow." 

Into the Gray by Margaret Killjoy ★★★★☆

"We’re not the same," she told me. "It’s not possible for us to lead the same life." 

Beautiful trans thief falls madly in love with a mermaid, a hungry mermaid. With a love Laria understands is obsession, they lead evil men to die in the Waking Waters.