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Tag: Appalachian fiction

Review – The Hum and the Shiver

Posted on October 12, 2026

When a fierce, pure-blood Tufa soldier is discharged back to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, she finds her toughest battle isn’t the war she left behind, but surviving ominous death tokens, a dangerous ex-boyfriend, and her own forgotten magic.

Review – The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

Posted on September 16, 2026

A young woman with a genetic disorder that turns her skin blue braves the harsh hills of 1930s Kentucky as a traveling packhorse librarian, fighting deep-seated prejudice to bring the magic of books to isolated Appalachian communities.

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