Lifel1k3 Review: A Little Life
"It's like Romeo and Juliet meets Mad Max meets X-Men with a little bit of Blade Runner cheering from the sidelines." With a tagline like that, there was no way I wasn't going to…
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Category: New Releases
The Poppy War Review: Love Letters to History
The Poppy War is the debut young adult novel written by R.F. Kuang, inspired and set in China’s 19th and early 20th century. War orphan Fang Runin, aka Rin, seeks to escape being married…
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Smoke Thieves Review: Thick Smoke, Banked Fire
The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green is an intriguing high fantasy with excellent political intrigue but which lacks the grit and pathos of the Half Bad trilogy. It is Green's first foray into a…
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Circe Review: A More Intimate Odyssey
The Iliad and the Odyssey are incredible collections of tales of wit, bravery, courage but also murder, deception and greed. Have you read either of these and wondered about the backstory of the characters…
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Tess of the Road Review: Ramble On
Between publishers and bookstores and authors themselves clamoring for attention—preorder gifts! promotional temporary tattoos! listicles!!!—I sometimes forget to be grateful. It’s especially humbling, therefore, to come across a book that reminds me so powerfully…
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Pride and Prometheus Review: Regency Mashup
When Pride and Prejudice and Zombies came out, I was as delighted as anyone else. What a clever concept! I thoroughly enjoyed it for what it was, a not-too-serious romp through Regency England and…
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The Hazel Wood Review: Alice in Hinterland
The Hazel Wood, by Melissa Albert, is like three books for the price of one. It's a mystery, a fairy tale, and then it's a meta-meditation. What's wonderful about it is that if you…
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Forever Ship Review: Every Man’s Fear Onboard
It is not immediately apparently what ship The Forever Ship by Francesca Haig is referring to. The ship that comes from a more advanced country to save a violently divided nation? That same ship,…
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Girl in the Tower Review: Your Princess is Storming Another Castle
When we last saw Vasya in The Bear and the Nightingale, she had just survived the onslaught of the Bear, who wanted to bring unending death and night to Rus. Vasya's witchy powers, combined…
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September Reviews: Japanese Light Novels and Magic Women
Girls Made of Snow and Glass (Melissa Bashardoust) - The writing is elegant, as are Bashardoust's interpretations of the elements we all know so well, mirrors and apples and snow. Mina, the "evil queen,"…
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