This book is incredible, and I find myself wanting to reference it all the time. I loved finding out all about what makes a person tick with regards to music, and these two authors are conversational and include anecdotes as well as serious science and studies. The result is a book that’s approachable, really cool, […]
This is a really good middle-grade queer novel. The writing is accessible and doesn’t get in the way of telling the story. It doesn’t talk down to the reader, which is very important to middle-grade reads. I also loved the fake Stardew Valley game that Jake plays and references through the book, I love nods […]
This book gets four stars from me, almost exclusively because of the inclusion of a nonbinary POV character. I enjoyed the humor in this a lot as well. I also was a big fan of the worldbuilding around merpeople — I enjoyed that this was A Paranormal Book that involved merpeople instead of your standard […]
I really wanted to like this book! My first line was going to be “like The Nest if the Nest was good”! Unfortunately I think this is false. This book dragged SO MUCH. It’s way more character-driven, but calling it ‘driven’ feels like a misnomer. I also think I read this at the Exact Wrong […]
DAUNTLESS is an incredible and refreshing YA fantasy, with all of my favorite elements. Sapphic warriors from opposite sides of a conflict meeting together! Court intrigue! Adventure! Really incredibly lush scenery! ARCHERY. I recommend picking it up. Four stars.
Unfortunately I am just super super sick of fairytale retellings after I took a class about them last semester! Which I didn’t actually expect, I thought that I would gain a greater appreciation for them and finally be able to enjoy them. But actually I hate them forever (except for THE GOOSE GIRL series by […]
Okay. First of all. I absolutely cannot get into these books because the main character is named Theodosia and she doesn’t even go by a quirky little nickname. And I just hear “dear theodosia” from Hamilton. Which is very much a Me Problem. Also I’m not a fan, at all, of her cop boyfriend, because […]
I did not read the first two books in this series etc etc etc. There are two problems with this book: one, that the main character is dating a really insecure cop. Two, she has to prove the innocence of this guy she used to be married to, but he’s a real jerk. Also, there’s […]
This is just my Goodreads review which I put up in early July, and I want it Out of my netgalley queue. I have thought about this book way too much and I am Done Thinking About It. I want to write this here and now: this book is not antisemitic. The magic in the […]
This book has FANTASTIC vibes. It’s queer, it’s here, it’s set in 2011, it’s about artists at an elite college and it’s mostly about the inner thoughts and lives of those artists. Very light on plot and I wouldn’t necessarily call what any of the characters go through “development”, but I LOVED the vibes. I […]