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She Followed the Moon Back to Herself by Amanda Lovelace

September 15, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

The title She Followed the Moon Back to Herself by Amanda Lovelace is the first poetry book I read cover to cover without stopping too long in between poems (just to catch my breath and not have poems bleed into each other) or jumping to the end to find out “what happens” in a while. Now, this is not to say OMG Best Book Ever, but there was something about it that was captivating. This means I enjoyed it but was not blown away at […]

Filed Under: Featured, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry Tagged With: Amanda Lovelace, Death, Feminine, gender, grief, LGBTQ, loss, Social Themes, Women Authors

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:321 · Genres: Featured, Fiction, Health, Non-Fiction, Poetry · Tags: Amanda Lovelace, Death, Feminine, gender, grief, LGBTQ, loss, Social Themes, Women Authors ·
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I’m enjoying how eclectic my books in the photo are

Alison by Lizzy Stewart

September 10, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Alison by Lizzy Stewart is an illustrated novel/graphic novel that is an intense, slow burn, but reads quickly, story of coming of age in your adult years. The world of art, women and sex explodes off the pages, yet the narrative remains slow and deep. Best described as “literary,” and that means whatever that means to you. It includes sex, alcohol, death, women’s rights, infidelity, and more.  That is the emotional review, an academic is how we follow a woman through her twenties to sixties […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Poetry, Romance Tagged With: art, Contemporary Women, Feminine, gender, literary, Lizzy Stewart, sex

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:293 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, History, Poetry, Romance · Tags: art, Contemporary Women, Feminine, gender, literary, Lizzy Stewart, sex ·
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Not-so-distant future

Identical by Leah Hayes

May 29, 2026 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

Sometimes I read a book that makes me both love and hate it simultaneously. It is an emotional book that can make me ill. It is something that I both understand on a miniscule level and one where I can not understand it at all. Identical by Leah Hayes (read via an online reader, due mid September 2026) is one of those books. All my love goes to the minimal illustrations, as the story is too sad and thoughtful to think about. Things are artistic, […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: artificial intelligence, Contemporary Women, Feminine, gender, identity, Leah Hayes, magical realism, Motherhood, siblings, Sisters, twins

BlackRaven's CBR18 Review No:156 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Graphic Novels/Comic Books, Health, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: artificial intelligence, Contemporary Women, Feminine, gender, identity, Leah Hayes, magical realism, Motherhood, siblings, Sisters, twins ·
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