Sometimes we want more books in a series but don’t necessarily need them, having the original series stand on it’s own is enough. The original Hunger Games trilogy is such a series. The first three books were so great and poignant that adding more just takes away from the original series. To start off, I […]
I actually found my first review of this back in the early days of this blog and oh boy, the cringe! Please don’t go and read it, I am begging you. I do still agree with my past self that this book was amazing and perfect! Such a great murder mystery with diverse and fully-fleshed […]
First off, I know the summary said that Faolan’s grandfather disguised her as a boy, but I was still expecting the theme of gender or non-conforming gender would have come up. It did in certain aspects with the settlement and the division of boys and girls, but there wasn’t anything in relation to Faolan. Faolan’s […]
Such a thought-provoking book on gender and identity, an epic look into a world that doesn’t have gender. The world-building is probably the biggest focus for people but everything else works in the background and slowly sneaks up on you. Not realizing how emotionally I was invested in all of this til near the end. […]
I’m always surprised when authors can pack so much into such small books, and Nnedi Okorafor is no exception. The book opens with a bang right away of AO killing men at the market who were beating her because she has many augmentations. Something AO has dealt with her whole life is people looking at […]
Maybe I’m just not educated enough in art techniques or history to understand, but I wasn’t a fan of the drawings from this book. They weren’t necessarily bad, it was just nothing that blew me away. At times I was more frustrated than anything else trying to read the text with all the colors in […]
Started the year with an Andrew Joseph White book and finishing it with one, wish I had read this sooner too! I was completely hooked by this book. Andrew Joseph White is definitely an auto-buy author for me. He writes such compelling plots with beautiful characters that I can’t help but fall in love with. […]
I was really excited to read this book! It’s been on my TBR for a while and when I first read the summary (after seeing the beautiful cover), I was ready to jump into the book. When I went to the library a few weeks ago and saw it, I knew I had to check […]
I always have a hesitation on memoirs (don’t ask me why), so it’s interesting that I’ve read two memoirs in the past two-ish months and both were 5 star reads. I might have to rethink my stand on memoir’s! This was definitely a difficult book to read at times due to my own abuse from […]
I absolutely love queer historical fiction, as it’s another way to show/prove that queer people aren’t anything new. LGBTQ+ people have been around since the beginning of time and will continue to be here! The whole mystery was fun but not too surprising. I’m still trying to figure out why the summary references Knives Out […]