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Jo Salazar on If We Survive the Night, a YA Zombie Reckoning

Jo Salazar on If We Survive the Night, a YA Zombie Reckoning

Jo Salazar’s If We Survive the Night started out as The Dead Weight, released by the author herself, and arrives from Sourcebooks Fire in 2026. In this interview, the YA zombie writer talks about building a protagonist you follow but never trust, writing institutional damage without a diagnosis, and why Quinn will never get the redemption arc readers keep waiting for.

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Don’t Leave Her Alone by Desirée de Fez Review: A Family Love That Bleeds

Don’t Leave Her Alone by Desirée de Fez Review: A Family Love That Bleeds

Desirée de Fez’s debut novel follows a mother and two daughters who can’t stand to be apart, until Christmas Eve in a shopping centre splits them open. Our Don’t Leave Her Alone review explains why this Spanish body horror novel, translated by Lizzie Davis, deserves a place on every horror shelf this autumn. Motherhood body horror fans should clear a space on the shelf.