The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold: A Book Review Genre: Women’s Fiction I found Sebold’s novel enchanting once the brutality of the main event sunk into my mind. The Lovely Bones details a journey of a family who are forced to cope after the murder of the eldest child as well as giving an inspiring … Continue reading The Tragedy of Death and Grief
A Queen in Hiding by Sarah Kozloff: A Book Review Genre: Fantasy Kozloff writes an enchanting tale in her debut novel, A Queen in Hiding. The starting novel of a four-book series, all of which are now published, Kozloff’s beginning book is mostly background and world-building. I actually await eagerly to have time to read … Continue reading Four Parts, One Epic Story
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller: A Book Review Genre: Epic Fantasy; LGBTQ+ This story was basically fanfiction toward The Illiad. While, granted I read The Illiad what seems like centuries ago, I would recommend reading Homer’s epic take over Miller's. While The Song of Achilles had it’s high points, it focused on the … Continue reading For or Against the LGBTQ+ Cause: A Book Review
The Sin in the Steel by Ryan Van Loan: A Book Review Genre: Fantasy Van Loan starts his writing journey with giving the ultimate story. Full of dangerous pirates, bloody sword fights, beautiful women (and men?), and magic, the world of Servenza will be a place the reader would wish to be able to survive. … Continue reading Pirates, Sword fighting, & Magic: A Book Review
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert: A Book Review Genre: Fantasy Albert’s story is definitely a mix of surreal fantasy and horror making the reader what to put the book down at the end and ask, “what did I just read”. The work is catching through as it draws the person in so they can … Continue reading What You Would Expect… Except Not?
Genre: Fantasy (self-described as Epic Fantasy) I rather enjoyed this book. The amount of foreshadowing was reasonable so that although you knew something of the sort was going to happen, you did not know when. Call certainly knew how to use the suspense element as many times you though something big was going to happen … Continue reading Master of Sorrows by Justin Travis Call: A Book Review
The Last Man by Mary Shelley: A Book Review Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian Mary Shelley’s The Last Man did not age well. Written using Shelly’s distinct writing style, the story is told in first person of the event of an illness overcoming humankind. While, parts of nature did seem to fit with futuristic views, the … Continue reading The Last Man by Mary Shelley
Genre: Science Fiction The Man in the High Castle was an unusual book to say the least. Being tossed between characters, the storyline did get confusing at the beginning, but after you are introduced to all the characters there is a sense of relief. I felt a lot for the characters as they were extremely … Continue reading The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick: A Book Review
Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction Years ago, when I was in high school, (think 2010ish) my class saw the movie John Carter during a field trip. Of course, we all hated it. Not only were we made to watch it, we were not even given the option to choose the movie, instead having to sit … Continue reading A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: A Book Review
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