Gateway Reviews

THE HOLLOW AND THE HAUNTED Miles Warren knows two things for certain: he'll be doing this job for the rest of his life, and he'll never get along with the Hawthornes. The family business might not be exactly profitable, but somebody has to commune with the dead, undo curses, and banish malignant spirits for the townies. At this point, Miles is used to digging up graves late on a school night. That's just part of the gig. But Miles's world is thrown for a loop when he gets a bloody premonition. At first, he thinks the face he saw in the mirror is a spirit that followed him home from the cemetery. He's an empath, after all, not a seer. But the visions grow more violent, and then... Then he meets Gabriel Hawthorne. The Warrens and the Hawthornes have always been at odds. The Hawthornes are snobbish, rude, and above it all. They're definitely not banishing spirits for whatever price the locals can pay. But now that Mile

DON'T LET THE FOREST IN Andrew Perrault would do anything for Thomas Rye. He lives and breathes for Thomas Rye. He would die for Thomas Rye. So when Andrew returns to Wickwood Academy for senior year and his twin sister decides to cut both Andrew and Thomas out of her life, Andrew knows he has to be there for Thomas more than ever before. Thomas needs him--and he needs Thomas. But something strange is happening at Wickwood. Something to do with Thomas. Something Thomas won't tell him. When the police arrive on campus with questions about Thomas's parents, rumors start flying that Thomas murdered them. Thomas won't say a word, not to anyone. Not even to Andrew. When Andrew catches Thomas sneaking out, he follows him into the off-limits forest on the edge of campus. Andrew expects to confront Thomas, to comfort him, to support him. Whatever happened, Andrew knows the truth: Thomas did what he had to do. But the forest isn't

THE DIVIDING SKY Liv Newman is tired of living for other people. Well, she's tired of living for richer people. She'll do whatever it takes to drag herself and the kids she calls family out of the slum where they're living, and if that means picking up a few illegal clients here and there on top of selling her best memories to the wealthy, so be it. That's what being a Proxy is all about. But when her richest client asks for a memory she doesn't (read: she can't) have, Liv has a choice to make. She could leave the city, risking her life to raiders in the wild, to get a glimpse of the stars like her client wants. Or she could stay in the city and keep working for scraps--scraps that will never amount to the sum she's been offered. The choice isn't all that hard. But Liv doesn't know she's got a rookie Forceman on her tail. Adrian Rao believes he's on the tail of a newdrug  dealer, someone messing w

COMPOUND FRACTURE Democrats think we're all Trump-drunk illiterate hillbillies, self-sabotaging, too stupid or too proud to accept the help we clearly need; Republicans point at our poverty and dying communities and remind us that liberals don't care about us, which is funny because neither do they. Miles Abernathy is a lot of things his neighbors don't like. He's an Abernathy, for one, and a socialist. And he's trans. But most of all, he's a proud West Virginian, and so he'll never leave. Even when things get tough. When Miles finds some evidence that could change the upcoming local elections--and the future of his town--he feels like he has to share. Sneaking out to a party with this evidence on his person, Miles puts himself in harms way... and he pays the price. Waking up in the hospital, Miles knows he is lucky to be alive. And he thinks, at first, that the ghost of the miner following him around is just the result of his h

A FAMILY OF KILLERS Warren Bullock doesn't trust himself. Not when a little voice in his head keeps insisting he do terrible, horrible things. So far, he's kept his hands clean, but who knows what will happen if he lets his guard down? He might hurt someone. He might kill someone. When some family friends goes missing, Warren's father sets out to find them. But then Warren's father disappears, too. Warren knows he's not the best choice to head a search party. Any of his brothers would be better, but his brothers all have farms and families of their own. It's up to Warren to head out and bring everyone home. So Warren sets out for Kansas, following his father's footsteps, and in Kansas, he runs into a roadside inn run by the Bender family. They claim his father never came through, and Warren fears the trail's gone cold. But the Bender family seem... strange. And they've been watching his every move. Sudden

UNDER THE SURFACE Paris is a dream come true for Ruby. A budding travel vlogger, she knows this is the start to the rest of her life. Assuming everything goes well, she might even convince her dad to let her go on another trip and another and another--and not keep her so close to him all the time. Sean's just happy to be here with Ruby. Paris is great, but being in Paris with Ruby is even better. Not that he's told her that. He's been dancing around his confession for months. When Ruby's best friend sneaks away from the chaperones to meet a mysterious French boy, Ruby knows nothing good can happen. And it's not like she can tell the teachers and risk her best friend getting sent home. Sneaking out, too, is the only way to go... And she can't exactly say no to a party in the catacombs, right? It's not like any other travel vlogger will have footage like this. But all is not well in the tunnels of the dead. When something chas