This post is part of a blog tour for St. Martin's Press, who provided me with an advance copy of Tsarina for review. More information on the book and the blog tour can be found at the bottom of this post. My experience with fiction that takes place in Russia basically extends to Katherine Arden's … Continue reading Review: Tsarina by Ellen Alpsten
Thanks to Penguin Teen for providing me with an advance reader's copy of Rebel Sisters, which I review in this post. As a somewhat new reader of Afrofuturism, I'm always excited to discover new-to-me authors and approaches to the genre. I guess my introduction to Afrofuturism was technically Nancy Farmer's middle grade novel The Ear, … Continue reading Want to Try Afrofuturism? Start With the “War Girls” Series
This post is a stop on the Blog Tour for Kingdom of Sea and Stone, book two of the Crown of Coral and Pearl duology. Be sure to check out the other stops on the tour here, and find more information on the book at the end of this post. Thanks to TBR and Beyond … Continue reading Fairy Tale Echoes in Mara Rutherford’s “Crown of Coral and Pearl” Duology
*I was given a review copy of this book by the publisher to participate in the Reign & Ruin release blog tour One interesting side effect of my brief brush with authors behaving badly last month was that my inbox was proverbially flooded with review requests. Who would have thought that broadcasting the fact that … Continue reading Review: Reign & Ruin
This post is part of a Rhonda Pods About Books podcast episode, which you can listen to on your favorite podcatcher, or right here: What I brought from my experience as a filmmaker is that I write in a very cinematic, visual style... it's basically like seeing a movie in your head. I actually … Continue reading A Conversation with “Shadow City” Author Anna Mocikat
*I was given a review copy of this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review. So I've had this idea for a Middle Grade novel rolling around in my head for awhile, and I recently decided to go ahead and take a crack at writing it (and I'm actually attempting it as … Continue reading Review: Esme’s Wish
I received a reader's copy of this book from Duckworth Books to participate in their Summer Blog Tour. From the publisher: "When an archaeologist goes missing in the Congo basin, Professor Randolph Harkness and young tearaway Ross McCartney go in search of her – only to stumble upon a conspiracy to conceal ancient horrors lost … Continue reading Review: The Killing Gene
I was given an advanced reader's copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. It's a personal rule of mine to never start a book series in the middle. The last time I did so was over ten years ago, when I picked up a library copy of Jasper Fforde's Lost in a … Continue reading Review: An Artless Demise
*I received an advanced reader's copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Author Alexandra Kuykendall asks a seemingly simple question in her fourth book, Loving My Actual Neighbor: how, exactly, do we love our neighbor? It seems simple, but in an increasingly isolated and online world, it is anything but. When Jesus … Continue reading Review: Loving My Actual Neighbor
*I received an Advanced Reader's Copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. The concept of Yvonthia Leland's debut novel The Wrythe and the Reckoning is really intriguing: a historical urban fantasy about a teenage girl coming of age, a 19th century New England town terrorized by a (maybe) werewolf-like creature, all set against the … Continue reading Review: The Wrythe and the Reckoning
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