Book Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland

My copy of Dread Nation in my hand I sorely regret not having the sequel on hand because I want nothing more right now than to immediately jump into reading it. Dread Nation is incredible! Quick summary: Jane is a student at Miss Preston's, a boarding school where black girls learn to become Attendants, basically …

Book Review: Robotic Ambitions (Apex Anthology) edited by Lesley Conner and Jason Sizemore

My copy of Robotic Ambitions. Cover shows one tall adult-like robot holding the hand of a smaller child-like robot who is carrying a makeshift umbrella as they walk down a city alleyway in the rain The Apex Anthologies are always such a treat and I just loved this one. There were so many different takes …

Book Review: The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All The Way Home by Catherynne M Valente

The first book I ever read by Catherynne M Valente was The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making, the first book in this series. I have loved getting to know September, her friends, going on adventures with them, and seeing all the wonders of Fairyland. It's sad to see the …

Book Review: No Witch Here by Melanie Hoffer

Melanie Hoffer is a friend of mine from high school who wrote a FANTASTIC witchy adult coming of age story that really brings back all those days of making up spells and wishing that our powers would just MANIFEST already that almost every girl in our generation definitely did at some point. Don't deny it, …

Book Review: Death Pacts And Left-Hand Paths by John Wayne Comunale

Another great read from John Wayne Comunale, I'm definitely going to have to get my hands on more of his books. My sister bought two other ones, but I might wait until I can buy myself copies since this book, as well a The Cycle that I just finished before Death Pacts, got me scribbling …

Book Review: The Cycle by John Wayne Comunale

I had SUCH a great time reading this book. The story is beautifully crafted and tantalizingly suspenseful right to the very end. The story follows Beth who inherits her late aunt's his in the woods, much to the disagreement of her mother who seems to have had a falling out with her sister many years …

Book Review: Sabikui Bisco (volumes 1 & 2) by Shinji Cobkubo

I mentioned in my Currently Reading post about these Japanese light novels that I expected the first few books to be equal to the first season of the anime, and I was wrong about that. Each book is equal to a season of anime, so at least I'm ready for when season 2 of Sabikui …

Book Review: The Chalice Of The Gods by Rick Riordan

Another fantastic Rick Riordan book. I had mentioned it in other places before, but I never read any of these books growing up. They came out when I was in high school so I was a bit older than the target audience, I was also a real book snob and wouldn't read anything that was …

Book Review: On Writing And Worldbuilding Volume 2 by Timothy Hickson

On Writing And Worldbuilding, both this volume and the previous one, are really helpful for getting the brain working on developing story ideas. I love worldbuilding, so the chapters that explore the different aspects of a world, like World Histories or Cities and Towns, are a treat. I do usually find my mind wandering a …

Book Review: Yellowface by R. F. Kuang

Juniper Song Hayward is both heartbreaking and horrible in this story. She's a despicable person, but at times you can't help but want her to just have a win, if only she'd try for a clean win for once. Yellowface opens with us learning that Athena Liu will die, it's quite literally the first sentence. …