16 Sep, 2025
Miscellaneous Reviews
Sarah Gailey’s 2025 Spread Me is a biological horror novel.
Kinsey and her subordinates study the cryptobiotic crust beneath the desert. What is it? A little-known layer of symbiotic lichen and other organisms hidden under the seemingly lifeless dunes.
Now, thanks to a hasty decision, the cryptobiotic crust is going to study the scientists.
14 Apr, 2022
Miscellaneous Reviews
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Sarah Gailey’s Just Like Home is a heartwarming tale of familial reconciliation.
Just kidding! It’s a horror story.
Vera Crowder was banished from Crowder House when she was seventeen. Twelve years later she returns, at the invitation of her mother Daphne. Daphne is dying.
24 Jun, 2020
Special Requests
Sarah Gailey’s 2020 When We Were Magic is a standalone contemporary fantasy novel.
Alexis is determined to make Roya, her crush, jealous. Plan: Alexis will seduce Josh Harper at a post-prom party. Unfortunately, once alone with Josh, Alexis kills him with the magic she has barely mastered. Bad plan.
30 Jan, 2020
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Sarah Gailey’s Upright Women Wanted is a standalone near-future novella.
Esther knows she’s doomed. She’s been unable to resist her illicit sapphic urges; she’s engaged in a covert love affair with another woman. Everything she has been taught tells her that she will be outed and punished by fate itself. Nevertheless, she persists.
Esther’s best friend/lover Beatriz is executed for possession of seditious propaganda. Beatriz’s brutish fiancé needs a new woman and Esther’s father, the sheriff of Valor, Arizona, is happy to oblige. With Esther.
Perhaps doom can be put off, even if it cannot be avoided. Esther stows away in a Librarian’s cart. If she can become a Librarian, she won’t be forced to marry. She can look forward to a life of chaste service to the State.
Esther doesn’t know some things she should know about the Librarians.
21 Dec, 2019
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Sarah Gailey’s debut novel Magic for Liars is a standalone modern-fantasy-private-investigator story.
The Osborne Academy for Young Mages has a problem. Health and Wellness teacher Sylvia Capley has been found bisected and quite dead in the library. Headmaster Marion Torres does not believe the official explanation, magical mishap. She believes it was murder.
Torres turns to Ivy Gamble for help. Unlike her sister Tabitha, who teaches at Osborne, Ivy has no magical talent whatsoever. What she does have is a PI license and a long experience of uncovering secrets.