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May 22

Review of The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

This captivating story involves time travel, but it's primarily about deep human connections, complete with fantastic, funny banter;...

Apr 11

Review of Shark Heart: A Love Story by Emily Habeck

Emily Habeck's debut novel offers an unusual premise in which one member of a newlywed couple begins transforming into a great white...

Jan 18

Review of To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Nampeshiweisit #1) by Moniquill Blackgoose

Blackgoose offers a fascinating, layered story about a strong-willed, whip-smart young Indigenous woman in a steampunk 1800s Nordic...

Oct 26, 2023

Review of The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

June struggles with the complicated implications of her family's curse of hallucinations and mental illness...until she realizes that the...

Jul 12, 2023

Review of Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Adjei-Brenyah's novel explores in disturbing detail a version of a society that may feel familiar: a corrupt, greedy prison system; the...

Dec 20, 2022

Review of Tell Me an Ending by Jo Harkin

Harkin's fascinating debut speculative fiction considers a memory clinic that erases and reinstates memories at clients' requests, the...

Sep 6, 2022

Review of This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub

Straub offers a wonderful story that plays with time, explores sentimental moments, offers do-overs, and sweeps the reader into a...

Jul 19, 2022

Review of Upgrade by Blake Crouch

Main protagonist Logan was hard for me to emotionally connect to, but I was hooked by the heart-pounding action, the fascinating imagined...

Mar 29, 2022

Review of Quantum Girl Theory by Erin Kate Ryan

In Erin Kate Ryan's historical fiction mystery, she uses a fascinating story structure to explore different potential paths for...

Mar 11, 2022

Six Second-Chance, Do-Over, Reliving-Life Stories

The Second-Chance Books I've been reminded lately how much I love a good second-chance book in which the main character gets the...

Mar 10, 2022

Review of Legend (Legend #1) by Marie Lu

In Marie Lu's young adult dystopian series starter Legend, the Republic and Colonies war with each other, a plague separates the haves...

Mar 3, 2022

Review of How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Nagamatsu's science fiction centers around a resurgence of an ancient Arctic plague. These interconnected stories are odd, fascinating,...

Nov 8, 2021

Review of Warcross (Warcross #1) by Marie Lu

You may see much of this young adult story coming, but Warcross is an action-packed quest to right wrongs in an immersive video game and...

Nov 5, 2021

Three Books I'm Reading Now, 11/5/21 Edition

The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading Natasha Pulley's The Kingdoms, which involves historical fiction and time travel; I'm listening to...

Oct 28, 2021

Review of Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune

Klune's newest novel is heartwarming, earnest, light, and sweet, with a vision of an in-between afterlife that is surprisingly romantic,...

Sep 30, 2021

September Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from September! These are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I included two titles from my...

Sep 21, 2021

Review of The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson

Johnson offers a wonderfully imperfect heroine and her fascinating journeys through the multiverse, her various lives, and her alternate...

Sep 8, 2021

Review of How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

ICYMI: In Matt Haig's How to Stop Time, main protagonist Tom Hazard lives for centuries but is not allowed to fall in love. When he...

Jul 30, 2021

July Wrap-Up: My Favorite Reads of the Month

My very favorite books from July! Here are the books I most loved reading during the past month. I'd love to hear: what are some of your...

Jul 27, 2021

Review of Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

Ursula unknowingly lives her life over and over again as Atkinson explores how choices large and small cause enormous repercussions for a...

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