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 […]
First off, I have to thank (heavy on the sarcasm) Hendrix for giving me even more of a reason to hate rats. That scene was a lot, and I don’t think I’ll ever recover. To start off, the story itself was super fascinating, and I do appreciate the note at the beginning as it gave […]
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. […]
Part one of the book is really the best of the novel and saved it from being a 2 star read. Part two feels too one-sided and resolved the tension in an unsatisfactory way. I loved everything about part one! The tension and pining between Aphrodite and Evander was everything my heart wanted. Plus, Aphrodite’s […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
This definitely wasn’t a favorite book of mine in general or for the year. But it was interesting to read right after the United States election. While I don’t currently live in a post-war world, the whole idea of loving a country that has never loved me the way I love it is certainly something […]
I guess when I first heard about this book I didn’t fully read the summary or something because what I read wasn’t what I was expecting. I thought this was going to be an origin story of Baba Yaga and how she became the ferocious, old hag who kidnaps and eats children. Or at least […]