Rating: 4/5 This book took my breath away. While not quite as good as Ng's recent novel, Little Fires Everywhere, I took delight in breezing through this novel of family drama, deception, and assumptions. As Jeff O'Neil stated on The Book Riot Podcast about Ng's work, this seems to fall into a suburban noir category. … Continue reading Everything I Never Told You ~ Celeste Ng
Rating: 3/5 Blackfish City reads almost like a grown-up version of The Golden Compass. This odd dystopian novel explores the political climate of an Arctic refugee town called Qanaaq told from five perspectives. Crime and corruption run rampant in this city, and a mysterious orcamancer rides in one day, turning the city on its head … Continue reading Blackfish City ~ Sam J. Miller
Rating: 3/5 This Graphic History is exactly what it sounds, a graphic history on what queer is. I suppose if you don't know much about the queer movement, these bite-sized chunks might appeal to you in gaining a better understanding of queer theory. This history explains lots of terminology and gives insight into many famous … Continue reading Queer: A Graphic History ~ Meg John Barker
Rating: 3/5 I have to say, I'm more a fan of Never Let me Go than I am of The Buried Giant. Personally, The Buried Giant is not quite my genre. This historical fiction/fantasy is a tale set in the UK with Saxons and Britons, during Sir Gawain's era and shortly after the fall of … Continue reading The Buried Giant ~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Rating: 3/5 I really enjoyed S.J. Maas's A Court of Mist and Fury, book two in the Court of Thorns and Roses series, so decided to pick up her other series to give it a try. Celaena is a trained assassin landed in the most dangerous prison, a mine called Endovier. The king of her … Continue reading Throne of Glass ~ Sarah J. Maas
Rating: 3/5 This comic is super cute. Bandette is a superhero/supervillian with the sweetest personality. All of the side characters are super cool and in the back of the book have some of their own comic strips devoted to exploring their stories and personalities. Tobin and Coover wanted more bad-ass lady superheroes, especially cute ones … Continue reading Bandette ~ Paul Tobin
Happy Book Birthday to Dread Nation! Rating: 5/5 From the depths of the South in the Civil War area comes an uprising of Shamblers, also known as zombies. Who will stop them? Of course the logical conclusion would be to draft Native American and black children into a zombie fighting army, right? This alternative history … Continue reading Dread Nation ~ Justina Ireland
