The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons
What do I often say I want in a book? I say I want a nice standalone fantasy novel. But when I read a standalone fantasy novel that I enjoy, I find myself thinking, “No wait! I want more time with these specific characters in this world.” I guess you have to be careful what you wish for because you might just get it. Now that I’ve finished The Sky on Fire by Jenn Lyons, I’m sitting here wanting more. For this review, I also […]
Gwen & Art Are Not In Love by Lex Croucher
She turned at the door, her face illuminated in the flickering torchlight, looking at him with utter disdain. “You can address me as Your Highness.” “My apologies, Your f-ing Highness,” Arthur called after her, but the door had already slammed shut—he was shouting into an empty room. -Gwen & Art are Not In Love (small edit to text by me to make this safer for work.) It’s enemies not to lovers, but enemies to friends who become wingmen for each other. It is late spring […]
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic by Michelle Hebert
Let me start by saying a couple of things about this book: 1) I am from Nova Scotia, the province in which this book is set, although I am from a different area in which the book is mainly set. 2) I don’t read a lot of stories set in Nova Scotia (most of the time it happens by accident; I legitimately thought one book I picked up started in Halifax, West Yorkshire, only to be like, “Oh snap, it is Halifax, Nova Scotia, where […]
A Better World by Sarah Langan
This was a weird one. And I mean that both as a complement and also a little in the what the heck did I read/why are the characters doing that!? I liked it. I stopped my evening one night so I could power through to the kind of inevitable end of the book. But it was a weird ride. Set in a time period called “The Great Unwinding” the story starts out in an America that is … well it is a dystopia. Not a […]
You Like It Darker by Stephen King
I have long maintained that, for me, Stephen King’s short stories and novellas hit harder than most of his books. I just like them more; they are snappier. While I do enjoy taking my 1,000-plus-page journey to Derry in IT, sometimes it’s nicer to have a story come in, do its thing, and then leave. You Like It Darker is Stephen King’s latest short story collection and is a mix of previously published stories (something I did not realize until I was like, “Wait… have […]
Home is Where The Bodies Are by Jeneva Rose (Author), January LaVoy (Narrator), Cassandra Campbell (Narrator), Brittany Pressley (Narrator), Andrew Eiden (Narrator)
We sometimes (sort of jokingly but also sort of not) say in my immediate family that we only get together with the extended family when there is a wedding or when there is a funeral. Big life events bring people together, and it is the passing of their mother (Laura) that brings the siblings in this novel back into each other’s orbits. And once they are back in each other’s lives, old tensions start to rise, exacerbated by the little fact that, oh yeah, their […]
