Reviews (Author-wise) - U-Z

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Uché Okonkwo
A Kind of Madness - ★★★★

V


Vanessa Edwards
The Matchmakers - ★★★★

Varadharajan Ramesh
Tales With A Twist - ★★★★.½

Vashti Harrison
Big - ★★★★.½

Veronika Dapunt

Veronica Del Valle
The Word-Keeper - ★★★

Veronica Roth
Void (A Short Story) - ★★★.¾

Vibha Batra
Kolam Kanna - ★★★★

Vicki Johnson
Molly's Tuxedo - ★★★★.½

Vicky Alvear Shecter
The Cleansing - ★★★.¾

Vicky Weber
Gingersnap Snatcher - ★★★.¼

Victor LaValle

Victor Manibo

Victor Methos

Victoria Grace Elliott

Victoria Scott/Victoria Darke
The House in the Water - ★★★.½

Victoria Williamson
Norah's Ark - ★★★★.¼
War of the Wind - ★★★

Vida Cruz-Borja

Vijayalakshmi Harish
Strangely Familiar Tales - ★★★★.½

Vincent Delecroix
Small Boat - ★★★.¾

Vinod Balan

Viola Ardone

Virginia Evans
The Correspondent - ★★★.½

Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Virginia Wilde 

Vita Murrow

Vivek Shanbhag
Ghachar Ghochar - ★★★★.¼

Vivian Zhou
Atana and the Firebird - ★★★★
Atana and the Jade Mermaid - ★★★★.½

Vonnie Winslow Crist

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W.A. Polf
Not The Same River - ★★★

Wallis Kinney

Walter Kirn

Wanda M. Morris

Wendi Nunnery
The Bluestockings - ★★★.¾

Wendy Holden
The Teacher of Auschwitz - ★★★.¾

Wendy James
A Little Bird - ★★★★.¼

Wendy Mitchell
Somebody I Used to Know - ★★★★.¼

Wendy Monica Winter
Where's My Joey? - ★★★★

Wendy Xu
The Infinity Particle - ★★★★

Weina Dai Randel

Wilfrid Lupano

Will Canduri
Twisted Crows - ★★.½

William Landay

Wren Morrison
Into the Up - ★★★.¾

X

Xavier Dorison

Y

Yamile Saied Méndez
Furia - ★★★

Yann Damezin

Yasmina Mattson

You Yeong-Gwang
The Rainfall Market - ★★.¼

Yume Kitasei
Saltcrop - ★★★.½

Yuu Minaduki

Yuval Noah Harari

Z

Zack Bush
Made for Me - ★★★.¾

Zahid Rafiq

Zidrou
The Adoption - ★★★★.½ 

Zoe Persico

Zoë Richards
Garden of Her Heart - ★★★.¾



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