Atomic Dreams: Prayer Cycle Edition by Jazan Wild
This is an almost 900-word review. But all you need to know are the first few paragraphs. If you wish to read the whole thing, be my guest! But know a lot goes on in the books and a lot went into the review. These books are 3.5 to 4. They are some of the most horrible, gut-wrenching, disgusting books I have ever read. And I want to reread them. I want to shout to everyone READ THESE!! The horror of the “mistress” that is […]
Sithrah V01 Kingdom of the Air by Jason Brubaker
reMIND: Volume 1 by Jason Brubaker
I debated on reviewing Sithrah V01 Kingdom of the Air by Jason Brubaker. I found this fascinating series recently on WebToons. It is completed; therefore, this is one of the reasons I decided to tell you about Sithrah as you can find it there. But I found that the publisher should have copies, too, so find your local independent bookstore and make an order! At first, this story is simple and almost “girly” in format. I was not sure I wanted to finish it. Who […]
The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex
The first movie I ever took my kiddo to the theater to see was the DreamWorks film, Home – with Jim Parsons and Rihanna voicing the main characters. Years later, our family still adores this movie and I tear up in the same spot hundreds of viewings later.Turns out, this film is based on a book – The True Meaning of Smekday, by Adam Rex. Alrighty, let’s dig in! I’m all for source material!I just finished this 400 page… scifi? sci-comedy? YA scifi-comedy experience and […]
Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix
Way back in 1995 Garth Nix created an intriguing world with his book Sabriel. A world in which a kingdom of magic was separated from a more mundane land (Ancelstierre) that felt like 1930’s England, and in that magic kingdom necromancers raised the dead and risked the world to bring back an ancient evil. Fighting against this were the Abhorsen, a family of good necromancers whose job it was to return the undead to the afterlife. It was a great and rich world that was […]
And They Lived Happily Ever After by Therese Beharrie
Representation on the page matters, and while finding representation that feels exactly like you can be some of the most affirming experiences out there, finding representation that speaks to a component of your life that isn’t exactly how you experience it is also incredibly important. Beharrie includes in her acknowledgements that a lot of what we see on the page in And They Lived Happily Ever After draws from her own experiences with Anxiety, and as usual, when an author so very obviously writes from […]
Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
So at the beginning of the pandemic when I first discovered Booktube (actually, when I found 2 people who talked about books on YouTube and didn’t yet know it was a thing), I noticed how both of them loved this completely random guy, but I didn’t know if I’d like fantasy. I don’t know why I thought it was supposed to be such an intimidating genre, it was just not what I’d been used to reading. Anyway, Emily Fox suggested to start with Warbreaker, since […]
