The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
The City We Became lines up with The Starless Sea for my top book of 2020 (with a third hot on their heels, but I’ll get to that in a later review). It’s so mind bogglingly bananas good I have no idea how I’m going to put it to words, but I’m going to try. Late last year I finally read N. K. Jemisin’s short story collection, How Long Till Black Future Month, and of course it was amazing and I loved seeing the genesis of so many […]
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas
Such a Fun Age, by Kiley Reid This was one I did not want to have to reduce to a catch-up post but here we are, too many books and too little time. Everyone everywhere is raving about Such a Fun Age and for a damn good reason. This is the rare book that is both quality good and can’t-put-it-down good. The story opens with Emira Tucker, part-time nanny to a wealthy family in Philadelphia, helping her employer out in a midnight emergency and taking her […]
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater
Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater
This is a series I’m genuinely surprised I hadn’t heard about sooner. It’s right up my alley – young adult, vaguely supernatural, lots of mystery, everything about this series has me written all over it. It’s even been out for a couple of years! Still not sure where the ball dropped for me on this one. A broad overview: our main character is Blue Sargent, a teenage non-psychic living in the Shenandoah Valley near a prep boarding school (Aglionby) full of boys she broadly cannot […]
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
Oh nooo I am so beyond behind. I joined this Slack where I can talk about book endlessly and it’s sapped enough of my book-talking energy that I totally lost track of my reviews. I haven’t stopped reading, just writing these, so lets watch me play a giant game of catch up. I’ll group a lot together but! This one deserves its own post. The Starless Sea. I loved The Night Circus beyond words and was ecstatic when she announced a second book and somehow […]
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Clementine: The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill by Sonia Purnell
The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
I am WAY behind. I have a stand-alone review planned for my favorite book of the year and another group review for a series on the way but I needed to knock these out and get my count down a bit. How the gracious did I get so backlogged. Let’s take these one-by-one because they really don’t have a whole lot in common. Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert Reading Red, White & Royal Blue earlier this year turned me around a bit on […]
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Ahh I have fallen so far behind. It’s been almost a month since I updated and I have several several reviews to write. So sorry! Okay but .. this book. Read it. As luck would have it, I was at first reading The Ten Thousand Doors of January virtually in tandem with The Starless Sea and both pretty quickly revolve around magic doors acting as portals to other worlds. Unfortunately this had me initially writing January off as a knock-off (I’ll get to it in that review, but Starless […]
