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Whiteout

Whiteout by Dhonielle Clayton

October 31, 2022 by Classic Leave a Comment

Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. This sadly was not as good as Blackout was. Probably because the main couple we follow in this one didn’t read as romantic to me at all. They (Sola and Stevie) read as very immature and honestly I got really tired of Stevie mighty quick. I didn’t find that whole dinner party thing realistic at all because Stevie is supposed to be really smart, but takes something that […]

Filed Under: Romance Tagged With: Dhonielle Clayton

Classic's CBR14 Review No:234 · Genres: Romance · Tags: Dhonielle Clayton ·
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A Wonder of a Woman

Nubia: Real One by L. L. McKinney

August 19, 2022 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Overall, Nubia: Real One is a modern telling of the superhero genre with concerns for today. While the art was not a hundred percent “my thing” it is clever and fits the tone of the story. Robyn Smith created illustrations that are classical graphic novel with comic overtones and works as both a blanket to hold the text and characters and be independent of it. I am not sure if they have reinvented the story of Nubia (outside of probably giving her two moms and […]

Filed Under: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: coming-of-age, DC Comics, Dhonielle Clayton, friendship, glbtq, identity, L. L. McKinney, Robyn Smith, Romance, Social Themes, superheroes, Wonder Woman

BlackRaven's CBR14 Review No:450 · Genres: Comedy/Humor, Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: coming-of-age, DC Comics, Dhonielle Clayton, friendship, glbtq, identity, L. L. McKinney, Robyn Smith, Romance, Social Themes, superheroes, Wonder Woman ·
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Blackout

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton

April 20, 2022 by Classic 5 Comments

What a great collection. I loved the idea of authors getting together to have characters set in the same place/time/date with them all spinning their individual stories. This was honestly lovely and I had no problem with any of the storylines. To have a young adult romance book starring mostly Black characters was wonderful to read. I started wishing for this to get turned into a miniseries. I miss really good romantic movies/tv shows. It feels like they have gotten out of vogue the past […]

Filed Under: Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Dhonielle Clayton, LGBT fiction, LGBT Romance, nic stone, nicola yoon, Tiffany D. Jackson

Classic's CBR14 Review No:90 · Genres: Romance, Young Adult · Tags: Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Dhonielle Clayton, LGBT fiction, LGBT Romance, nic stone, nicola yoon, Tiffany D. Jackson ·
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“In the clear and steady gleam of electric lights, superstition turns to foolishness; in the crucible of the combustion engine, false beliefs are burned away.” (Bingos #9 & 10)

Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite by Zoraida Cordova & Natalie Parker (editors)

October 24, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

My Halloween read this year is this collection of new vampire tales edited by the team of Zoraida Cordova and Natalie Parker. I enjoy vampire stores because they offer so many different views onto the human condition, if you go looking for them. In Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite Cordova and Parker, along with the assembled authors, take the time to dig in and explore these angles – with postscripts by Cordova and Parker after each story. Let’s handle individual stories in […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: Anthology, cbr13bingo, Dhonielle Clayton, halloween, Heidi Heilig, julie murphy, Kayla Whaley, laura ruby, mark oshiro, mythic, Natalie Parker, read harder challenge, read women, Rebecca Roanhorse, Samira Ahmed, short story collection, Tessa Gratton, vampires, Vampires Never Get Old, VE Schwab, we need diverse books, Zoraida Cordova, Zoraida Cordova & Natalie Parker (editors)

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:50 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: Anthology, cbr13bingo, Dhonielle Clayton, halloween, Heidi Heilig, julie murphy, Kayla Whaley, laura ruby, mark oshiro, mythic, Natalie Parker, read harder challenge, read women, Rebecca Roanhorse, Samira Ahmed, short story collection, Tessa Gratton, vampires, Vampires Never Get Old, VE Schwab, we need diverse books, Zoraida Cordova, Zoraida Cordova & Natalie Parker (editors) ·
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“Don’t you think it’s possible that this could be good? That maybe this won’t lead to disaster after all? What if we find out that we fit together, like your grandparents and their hands?” (Bingo #8)

Blackout by Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

October 23, 2021 by faintingviolet Leave a Comment

Blackout is a novel comprised of several short stories covering five hours in the course of one night in New York as it experiences a blackout. Tiffany D. Jackson writes The Long Walk which is broken up into five acts, Nic Stone contributes Mask Off (perhaps my favorite of the bunch), Ashley Woodfolk’s Made to Fit, Dhonielle Clayton provides All the Great Love Stories… and Dust, as well as being the person who sparked the project into existence, Angie Thomas’s No Sleep Till Brooklyn, and […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: Adaptation Coming, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Black love, blackout, cbr13bingo, cityscape, Dhonielle Clayton, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, nic stone, nicola yoon, queer love, read harder challenge, read women, Tiffany D. Jackson, we need diverse books, young love

faintingviolet's CBR13 Review No:49 · Genres: Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: Adaptation Coming, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Black love, blackout, cbr13bingo, cityscape, Dhonielle Clayton, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon, nic stone, nicola yoon, queer love, read harder challenge, read women, Tiffany D. Jackson, we need diverse books, young love ·
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Not a great collection of stories, in my opinion.

A Universe of Wishes by ed. Dhonielle Clayton

October 1, 2021 by narfna Leave a Comment

This was a pretty disappointing collection. I only enjoyed a handful of stories. I think the thing that frustrates me the most about YA fantasy and sf recently is that these are the genres of the imagination, and yet so many authors keep telling the same old stories, even, as it turns out, when those stories are populated by a diverse cast of characters, featuring characters of many races, genders, and sexualities. Some of these stories were dull and uninspired, some I thought were just […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, anthologies, Dhonielle Clayton, ed. Dhonielle Clayton, read harder challenge 2021, sci-fi, short stories, we need diverse books, YA, Young Adult

narfna's CBR13 Review No:130 · Genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, #Science Fiction, anthologies, Dhonielle Clayton, ed. Dhonielle Clayton, read harder challenge 2021, sci-fi, short stories, we need diverse books, YA, Young Adult ·
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