ME Recommends: Heatwave Heroes

Here’s what the team at Mushens Entertainment having been reading this summer!  

Rachel recommends…

I’ve just started an advance copy of KATABASIS and am already obsessed! KATABASIS follows Grad student Alice Law and her biggest rival Peter Murdoch as they journey to Hell in search of their recently deceased Cambridge professor. I loved BABEL and THE POPPY WARS, so this was one of my most anticipated reads of 2025!

Emma recommends…

I’m reading WHO WANTS NORMAL? THE DISABLED GIRL’S GUIDE TO LIFE by Frances Ryan, which is part memoir, part interviews with a wide range of disabled women about their different experiences within key areas of life. It’s definitely a book to fire your righteous anger and essential reading for anybody who isn’t disabled.

Alba recommends…

I’m reading the sequel trilogy of THE GOBLIN EMPEROR: Katherine Addison’s THE CEMETERIES OF AMALO. In a world made up only of elves and goblins, Thara Celehar can speak to the dead, and uses this ability to help out the people of Amalo. The writing is soothing like the best cozy fantasy but the cases go from trivial to very dark. I would die for Thara Celehar, and wish him only the best.

Juliet recommends…

I’m currently reading PROBLEMATIC SUMMER ROMANCE by Ali Hazelwood. Set in the build-up to her elder brother’s wedding in Italy, Maya is trying her best to stay away from her brother’s best friend who is 15 years older than her. Obviously, she fails. I love Ali Hazelwood’s blend of women in STEM, romantic leads who look like Adam Driver, and smart and funny writing. 

Catriona recommends…

I’m currently reading MY BEST FRIEND’S EXORCISM by Grady Hendrix which is a horror novel set in 1980s America following two teenage girls and the possessing demon that comes between them. I’m really enjoying its quirky dark humour and 80s pop culture references, in addition to how it explores the potency of female friendship.