The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven Reviews
The Red Threads of Fortune and The Black Tides of Heaven by JY Yang are a matched pair of stories, and I figured that whichever I read first would change the way I read…
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Category: New Releases
Early September Book Reviews
Spellbook of the Lost and Found - Moïra Fowley-Doyle's debut, The Accident Season, was a quiet roar of a book that used suspenseful magic to get at some extremely heavy issues, and her second…
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Godsgrave Review: Are You Not Entertained?
How do you top Nevernight, a book that's basically Harry Potter for assassins, complete with magical, stairway-shifting school accessible only by diving through something that really shouldn't be dived though? Well, actually the second installment…
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The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter Review: Sisters in Science
Before I begin reviewing the book, I must first review the title. At least enough to say: it sucks. It sucks! It sucks, it sucks, it sucks. Rather than intriguing me, it actively put…
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Want Review: The Smog Represents My Heart
(Look, if Cindy Pon can reference Jay Chou, I can reference Jay Chou, okay?) Taiwan of the future is a great place to be--if you're rich. In fact, the world is a pretty great…
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The Refrigerator Monologues Review: We Don’t Tiptoe
The minute I saw the name for this book, I exclaimed—ostensibly to my husband, but my cat or the open air would have sufficed—"of course this needs to be a book. Why has no…
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Roar Review: Riders on the Storm
Aurora has a big secret. She's not special. Oh, she's a princess. She's heir to a city-state and has never known physical hardship. She's lovely, adept in languages, a gifted horsewoman, and a practiced…
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Waking Gods Review: Rise and Shine
Well! Waking Gods certainly doesn't waste any time, I'll tell you that much. Despite taking place about ten years after the first book (Sleeping Giants), everything is as urgent and immediate as ever. Global…
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The Song Rising Review: Battle Hymn
I was astonished when I picked up The Song Rising by Samantha Shannon, the third installment in the Bone Season septet. It's only 350 pages, shorter than both previous volumes by more than a…
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Agents of Dreamland Review: The Static is the Signal
The Signalman is waiting. The cultists are waiting. Time divides them, and a short, terrible burst of violence, but that's not very much, in the scheme of this universe. They all want to know…
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