Four-Star Book Review 23/26

Aug 26, 2020

Review of Dear Emmie Blue by Lia Louis

ear Emmie Blue is satisfying, heartwarming escapism without inspiring any irritation at too-convenient or outlandish events.

Aug 20, 2020

My Six Favorite Summer 2020 Reads

01 The Vanishing Half 02 Florence Adler Swims Forever 03 Blacktop Wasteland 04 Utopia Avenue 05 When These Mountains Burn 06 This Is All He

Aug 20, 2020

Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

01 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World And there may be no law left except what you make of it, but if you steal my dog, you can at...

Aug 17, 2020

Review of The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey

The Boy on the Bridge offers adventure, twists, turns, love, scientific exploration, betrayal, and an odd twist on hope.

Aug 11, 2020

Review of My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

This first book in the Lady Janies trilogy is funny, and smart, with clever asides, wonderful character development, and fantastic banter.

Aug 10, 2020

Three Offbeat Series I Just Started and Love

01 Ink & Sigil: Ink & Sigil Series In this first book of Kevin Hearne's new Ink & Sigil series, patterns and inks have power; hobgoblins...

Jul 23, 2020

Review of When These Mountains Burn by David Joy

Joy offers an often dark work of Southern literary fiction in which bubbles of hope emerge.

Jul 19, 2020

Review of Exit Strategy (Murderbot #4) by Martha Wells

Murderbot is a part-organic robot who continues to be inconveniently and fiercely loyal to certain humans.

Jul 18, 2020

Review of Blacktop Wasteland by S.A. Cosby

Bug is forced to consider what loyalty means, and he must face a potentially dark path ahead.

Jul 16, 2020

Review of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Things don't all work out too easily in Hendrix's Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, but courage is satisfyingly rewarded.

Jul 15, 2020

Review of The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett

In The Vanishing Half, Bennett explores the complicated implications of perception as reality when it comes to race.

Jul 14, 2020

Review of Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

Mitchell expertly builds the band members into rich characters you're rooting for. More very welcome David Mitchell universe madness.

Jul 14, 2020

Six Riveting Time-Travel Escapes

Jul 8, 2020

Review of A Woman Is No Man by Etaf Rum

In A Woman Is No Man, Rum explores the often powerless and voiceless status of her conservative Palestinian female characters.

Jul 7, 2020

Review of So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Oluo offers specific steps we can take toward "talk[ing] our way to understanding...and using that understanding to act."

Jul 3, 2020

Review of Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker is a fascinating, disturbing, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful book.

Jun 27, 2020

Review of When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

Zelda has to figure out what it means to live her own legend. (I loved this book.)

Jun 27, 2020

Review of Home Before Dark by Riley Sager

A compelling Gothic suspense story that keeps you guessing.

Jun 22, 2020

Review of Things in Jars by Jess Kidd

Kidd offers a creepy, dark mystery gloriously steeped in details of Victorian London and seedy, sordid characters, and heroes with heart.

Jun 13, 2020

Review of The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd

This story imagines a wife for Jesus, questions gender roles, and offers adventure.

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