In this chapter, hear what we have to say about the following texts:

• Bad Days in History: A Gleefully Grim Chronicle of Misfortune, Mayhem, and Misery for Every Day of the Year by Michael Farquhar
• To Hell and Back: The Last Train From Hiroshima by Charles Pellegrino (2015)
• Yamaguchi’s poetry in his book And The River Flowed as a Raft of Corpses
• Legends and Lattes, by Travis Baldree, 2022
• The Orcsworn series, by Finley Fenn, 2019
• The Night Circus, by Erin Morgenstern, 2011
• Fourth Wing, by Rebecca Yarros, 2023
• House of Marionne, by J. Elle, 2023
• Crescent City series by Sarah J Maas, 2020
• Playing with Fire, RJ Blaine
• Bride by Ali Hazelwood, 2024
• The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett
• Empire of Shadows by Jacquelin Benson
• Killers of a Certain Age, by Deanna Raybourn
• A Reunion of Ghosts, by Judith Clare Mitchell
• A Romanov Fantasy:Life at the Court of Anna Anderson , by Frances Welch