Nightsong by Sally Soweol Han
Nightsong by Sally Soweol Han is a story about a young boy who is tired of visiting the adults with his adult (assuming mother). But soon it is time to go home and the adult and child head for the bus, hop on and are leaving the city behind. Until the wheels on the bus don’t go round and round, and one needs to be fixed. A long day got longer, but our young boy decided to listen to the sounds around him and explore […]
Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
I don’t know about you, but the cover of Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees is a bit misleading. Then, after you realize it is not just a cute story of a person planting trees, it becomes down right disturbing! I now know that the creator, Patrick Horvath is a very odd person (and I might not go onto other things they create) and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou had their hands full doing their part of things. Things are just warped. And I am not the only […]
The Eidi Bag by Shazia Afzal
The Jellyfish Bus by Suhyeon Lee
What if Marty Doesn’t Like My Party? by Katie Arthur
Three books I enjoyed, but am not really able to give a full review to each individual are below. This is because if you try to write up a “full review” you just end up telling the story. And then, you, the reader of this review, will not want to read the actual books! (Each one was read via an online reader copy.) Starting with The Eidi Bag by Shazia Afzal and illustrated by Shiva Delsooz, we have a book (currently available) that dives into […]
Barda by Ngozi Ukazu
I do not know enough about Barda to understand all the ins and outs of her story. However, you can pick up some of it (the idea she is not the villain Granny Goodness wants, who Granny is, the Furies, etc.), in Ngozi Ukazu’s graphic novel of the same name. Some of the world was lost on me (why is the prisoner Scott Free the way he is? How did he get his name? What about the background he has with another person of Barda’s […]
Breath of the Dragon by Fonda Lee
I really liked Fonda Lee’s Green Bone Saga – there was a lot going on so it took a second to get into them but once I was hooked, I couldn’t stop being impressed by what she did: it was an Asian influenced fantasy in a modern day setting with Mafia vibes, and felt very much like The Godfather movies as far as the span of the story. The series starts at a time where old and new are colliding and ends in a world […]
House of Frank by Kay Synclaire
A cozy fantasy about grief and found family, and the first book I’ve read from the relatively new publishing experiment, Bindery Books. I would read further books from this author for sure, but I also think this one was pretty flawed. I actually think it needed at least one more round of edits, if not two. I have no idea how Bindery’s editing process works in comparison to traditional publishers, but this needed to be worked over for clarity, both in the writing itself (some sentences […]
