Here’s what we read and liked this week.

Need something new for your reading list? This week, we recommend checking out The Dorians , a novel by Nick Cutter, and Lorenzo De Felici's comic series, Red Roots.

The Dorians

Gallery Books

It should become clear pretty quickly that the title here is a nod to one of this book's major influences, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray . Five people on their deathbeds are interrupted by a mysterious person offering a second chance at life: an experimental treatment that could give them back their youth. This sort of thing always goes really well for everyone involved, right?

"The remarkable secret lies in the high-tech harnessing of an ancient and extraordinary biological agent...one with no conscience, yet possessed with a single-minded purpose that has helped it persist for eons: the will to survive," per the book's description. A lot about The Dorians at the beginning reminded me of Alien: Earth .…