So I can’t remember how I found this book. I think it might have been around Amazon Prime Day (if you ask my sister, who is also my next door neighbor, and we share a porch – everyday is Prime Day for me) where Amazon had a sale on their Kindle Unlimited plan. I can’t remember how much I paid, but it was significantly less than the normal price, and it allows you to take out up to 10 kindle books at a time from […]
Stories Helped Make Me Who I Am
3.5 stars, rounded up to 4 I love Faith. LOOK AT HER!!!!! She is a legitimately fat woman. She looks like a real fat woman and not just an extra curvy woman. She flies and fights crime. As a fat woman myself, I love this. I know a lot of fat women who have the athleticism and grace to fly, if only gravity would let them. And do you know how often her weight is alluded to? Never. No one tells her she can’t superhero […]
I’m young, scrappy, and hungry
Well, this was an odd little book. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I started it. I think I’d requested it from the library long ago based on someone else’s CBR review, but I’d forgotten why. I liken the experience of reading Every Heart a Doorway to reading The Library of Mount Char: it was a strange book, I had no idea where it was going, and some super fucked up things happened (though not quite as fucked up as Mount Char). I didn’t […]
I’m just a poor boy, I need no sympathy (As I die from all these puns I’m making)
Rating: 5/5 Summary: The story begins with Kote, a lowly though kind innkeeper in a small town off the beaten path. No one really knows his past, but he is a part of the town anyway. When a strange creature attacks one of his regular customers, Kote takes things into his own hands. While hunting the creatures, he meets Chronicler who knows about his past. After defeating said creatures, Kote rescues and takes Chronicler back to his inn. When Chronicler awakes, he tells Kote why […]
Choose: A quick death or a slow poison…
Rating: 5/5 Summary: Yelena is about to executed for murder. In Ixia when you commit a crime, your punishment is essentially the crime itself, kind of like an eye for an eye. There are no excuses. When the guards come to retrieve her, she is taken to Valek’s office, the Commander’s assassin and spymaster. He gives her a choice: be executed now or serve as the Commander’s food taster. As the food taster, Yelena could be poisoned at any meal and die anyway. Yelena is […]
YA fiction based on The Magic Orange Tree
Do y’all follow Book Riot for recommendations? If not, you totally should. I have found so many great reads off their lists, particularly YA. They posted one the other day, A Reading List For Everyone Now Obsessed With Strangers Things (which I haven’t watched yet but know that I will). I borrowed a bunch from the library, and started with Tracey Baptiste’s The Jumbies. It’s aimed a bit younger than I normally read, but I still really liked it — and I love that I never would […]