I just really dug this book, y’all. It’s a long read for sure, and I was stoked to be along for the ride. The story is expertly told and I hung on for every word. Also, I really really wish that Ifemelu’s blog, “Raceteenth or Various Observations About American Blacks (Those Formerly Known as Negroes) by a Non-American Black” was real because I would read the shit out of it. Is it real? Has someone made it real? I’m just assuming no but I also haven’t […]
I feel like I’m okay with this ending
This review is going to suffer from me having read multiple books since finishing this one. I do apologize. I powered through it mostly to have the conclusion and, hey, it was a pretty satisfying one, as “dystopian YA novels with powerful teenage female protagonists” go. The book actually dives pretty deeply into what is clearly Ruby’s PTSD following the bombing of their previous base and the loss of one of her closest friends. Granted, the book then also sidesteps some of those symptoms to […]
Visceral, heartbreaking, with just a little bit of “huh?”
I did The Thing again where I was traveling and I read all the books and now I have to review them in a jumble. Thankfully, I’m starting with one that was absolutely brilliant and I will definitely not confuse with anything else. Let’s hit the ground running, y’all. Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad is a story of an escape from slavery, exceptionally true-to-life except for a significant ‘what if’: what if the Underground Railroad was an actual goddamn underground railroad? Like with tracks and trains […]
Might frustrate you, but only temporarily
I enjoyed this one! It was easy and fun to just chew through – I started it on the plane, got home, and promptly cracked it back open to finish. It’s a mystery within a mystery and I did enjoy that format for the most part. Head’s up, you mostly finish the first mystery at the halfway point in the book and have to read rest of it to get the answers. Our main character (I think her name is Susan? I can’t remember) is […]
Entertaining, empty calories
This is definitely the book that suffered the most in my “read first, review later” rush last week. Sorry, y’all. I liked it, it just doesn’t stand out for me. Just learned that it’s a debut novel, though, which helps me appreciate it a little more. The Windfall is a story about the haves and the have-lots set in modern New Delhi, and it’s about how little people really change. Mr. Jha has lived his whole life in West Delhi, in the housing complex where […]
There’s just always so much to digest
Book 6! I did it! And before I got book 7 from the library! I have covered before how much I love these books. Grown up me reading these is like teenage me reading the Star Wars expanded universe. This one may have been a bit of a letdown after how much I loved book 5 (don’t ask me the specific title, because that is long gone), but the standard is so high that doesn’t mean much. Still would recommend over and over and over. […]
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