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  Sunshine, Secrets, and Serial Killers: A Review of Summer Slashers by Jack Steen The Asylum Confession Files #11 | Horror | 329 pages | First published June 25, 2026 Rating: ★★★★☆ Summer is usually associated with freedom: vacations, camps, fairs, beaches, and long days spent beside the water. In Summer Slashers , Jack Steen transforms those familiar pleasures into four settings designed for predators. The eleventh installment in The Asylum Confession Files returns to the death ward of an asylum for the criminally insane. Steen is the night nurse, but his patients know him by another name: the Angel of Death. They arrive alive, tell him their final stories, and leave dead. Steen offers to make their deaths less painful. In exchange, he demands the confession they have withheld from everyone else—the complete account concealed behind official statements, court records, and carefully constructed lies. There is no guarantee that his patients honor the agreement. These are experien...

  Success After Success: A Review of Rules Optional: Break Old Limits. Master New Skills. Rewrite Your Future by Craig Gauthier Posted on Prairie Fox Reads  https://prairiefoxreads.blogspot.com/2026/06/success-after-success-review-of-rules.html Advanced Review Copy provided by the publisher Book Details: Title: Rules Optional: Break Old Limits. Master New Skills. Rewrite Your Future Author: Craig Gauthier Publisher: Lineleven (Published June 9, 2026) Format: Kindle Edition, 268 pages Genres: Personal Development, Leadership, Self-Improvement, Business, Psychology There is a particular kind of dissatisfaction that rarely gets discussed openly. It is not the frustration of failure. It is not the disappointment of unrealized goals. Rather, it is the unsettling feeling that arrives after you've achieved everything you thought would make you happy. The promotion arrives. The degree is earned. The title appears on the business card. The financial goals are met. An...

  Book Review:   Venus, Vanishing: A Novel   by Rebecca Birrell Rating:   ★★★★☆ (4.02 out of 5 stars) Disclaimer: I received a free advance review copy (ARC) of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts, critiques, and analyses presented below are entirely my own. Publication and Context Title:   Venus, Vanishing: A Novel Author:   Rebecca Birrell Expected Publication Date:   October 27, 2026 Publisher:   Henry Holt and Co. Page Count:   352 pages Format:   Softcover (ASIN: 1250457238 / ISBN: 9781250457233) Genres:   Historical Fiction / Queer / LGBT / Lesbian / Adult Contextual Backdrop: Slated for release in late October 2026,   Venus, Vanishing   is positioned as a blisteringly passionate entry into queer historical fiction. Drawing direct comparative nods to celebrated authors of the genre like Sarah Waters, Yael van der Wouden, and Alice Winn, Rebecca Birrell’s novel centers on the in...

  Book Review:   Under the Falls   (Falls #2) by Richard Russo Estimated Rating:   ★★★☆☆ (3.14 out of 5 stars) Disclaimer: I received a free advance review copy (ARC) of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts and analyses presented below are entirely my own. Publication and Context Title:   Under the Falls Author:   Richard Russo Series:   Falls (#2) Expected Publication Date:   August 11, 2026 Publisher:   Knopf Page Count:   256 pages Format:   Hardcover (ASIN / ISBN: 9780593805107) Genres:   Fiction / Literary Fiction / Mystery / Suspense / Friendship / Book Club Contextual Backdrop: Expected to hit shelves in August 2026,   Under the Falls   marks the return of Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Russo. Billed in the publisher’s description as his first stand-alone novel since   Chances Are . . . —despite also being categorized as “Falls #2”—this 256-page novel sees Russ...