You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
CW: fatal car crash in the past, past homophobia, physical altercation that could have veered towards physical abuse except that it was stopped before any character is hurt What a beautiful cover, I have to say. The UK version is very boring looking in comparison. I have been thinking about … [Read more]
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
CW: this is about slavery, so...all the requisite warnings therein I put this book off for a long time--a really long time, judging from how far back in my Kindle I had to go to find it. And I'm ashamed to admit, I started reading it because I was basically done with everything else I had on … [Read more]
The Magpie Lord by K.J. Charles
CW: suicides (in the past), suicidal actions/ideation (but it's made clear that it's a curse which is making the character feel that way), homophobia, mentions of assault, mentions of incest, magic which saps a character's life energy, and also some magical manipulation of emotions which I found … [Read more]
The Murder of Mr. Wickham by Claudia Gray
Claudia Gray, of Bloodline, here stretches her fandom writing chops to a different world long, long ago with many fervent fans: Austen! The premise is simple: all the characters you know and love from Austen's greatest hits also know one another. A sort of Extended Austen Universe, so to speak. … [Read more]
Kaikeyi by Vaishnavi Patel
While I do think this book was major struggle city to get through for numerous plot-related issues, I'd like to give my standard disclaimer around books featuring South Asian protagonists or based on South Asian mythology: I am, unfortunately, a harder grader than I might be for stories based on … [Read more]
Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman
CW: quite a few, scroll all the way down here https://aliceoseman.com/extras/conten... To finish up my review of this delightful series, which will be finishing later this year with a fifth and final volume: things have gotten rough but I think the relationship at the core of these volumes … [Read more]
