Toni Adeyemi’s Children of Blood and Bone is the amazing journey of two siblings on a quest to bring back the magic that was taken from their people. Adeyemi uses the quest to bring back lost magic to take the reader through the history and workings of an elemental magic …
Back in the early 2010s, a group of vloggers made a Modern day production of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice in the form of a series of vlogs on YouTube. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was high quality and engaging and got name dropped by higher level YouTube personalities and became …
The Wayward Children series doesn’t go in chronological order. The second book is a prequel to the first and this third one is the sequel. You don’t have to read book 2, but you should read book 1 before this one. I promise both of those are as amazing as …
It’s no secret that I loved Every Heart A Doorway but one of the reasons I loved it so much is The Adamses, specifically Jack and her antihero readiness to hide the bodies like that’s completely normal. Down Among the Sticks and Bones is a prequel, diving into the story …
Clara is an independent dyer of yarn looking for inspiration for color pallets, Danielle is a local painter looking for inspiration of her own, and both of them love Captain Werewolf and half sours. This is an adorable little romance starring supportive jewish artsy girlfriends who fucking support representational art. …
Just like the previous book, this book has a lot of really good representation for LGBT and POC characters who are all loved and supported for who they are. We’re looking at loving Lesbian moms and the best dad who brought a supply of his trans son’s hormones to the …
With The Hate U Give starting in theaters a week from now, I’m sure most of the people seeing this review are wondering if they should read the book first and to that I say YES. If you have the means to read a book first, it’s always worth it. …
I picked this up first for a Diverse Books challenge that called for OwnVoices Asian Representation. I got that, of course, but I also got a light dystopia hiding a darker dystopia with superheroes and supervillains and government surveillance and cute superpowered girlfriends. So some radiation from the sun hit …
The story of the Trueba family follows 4 generations but the story is told primarily from the lifetime of Esteban Trueba who is also the primary villain of his own story. When the story starts off, he’s engaged to this girl Rosa and trying to build up the funds to …
It took me a pretty long time to get through this book and I’m gonna try to not spoil it for others but also prevent someone having to needlessly pause it like I did. I’d started it and I thought I saw something coming that I didn’t want to get …
