Blood Red Summer is undeniably one of Eryk Pruitt’s best novels, but it’s also polite Pruitt.
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Blood Red Summer is undeniably one of Eryk Pruitt’s best novels, but it’s also polite Pruitt.
Mia Ballard is undeniably talented, but she needs to trust her instincts better and let it bleed out.
The Shining Girls features a time-traveling murder house, which sounds cool until you realize it’s mostly there to make plot holes feel intentional.
Intermezzo flirts with emotional depth, but keeps ghosting its own potential.
It’s a novel that slips under your skin like a lover you don’t trust: whispering questions about your body, your cravings, and whether intimacy is just a beautifully coded illusion.
Episode Thirteen is a haunted house story trapped in a found-footage gimmick, where the real horror isn’t the ghosts, it’s how much better this would’ve been as a movie.
It’s rare that I say this, but 130something pages is the perfect length for such an oddball novel.
