Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Earlier this year I read Juliet Takes a Breath, the fantastic YA contemporary fiction about a Bronx baby dyke coming out to her family moments before stepping on a plane to intern with (white) feminist icon and author, Harlowe Brisbane. There was so much to unpack in … Continue reading Book Review: Juliet Takes a Breath
Book Review: Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower by Tamsyn Muir 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Once upon a time, there was a witch who wanted to imprison a princess in a tower. But she wanted to do it properly, so she made it forty stories tall and filled with varying monsters at every level. Yet the princes never made it … Continue reading Book Review: Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower
21 SFF Backlist Titles to Read in 2021
I wanted to increase the amount of backlist titles this year, and while I didn't read nearly as many as I wanted (that were on my TBR), I did read a number that weren't published in 2020! Here are 21 backlist titles that I need (really want) to read in 2021! And...maybe one or two … Continue reading 21 SFF Backlist Titles to Read in 2021
Today is My Book’s Debut!
Folks, I am so excited about today! That Distant Dream releases from NineStar Press, and it's just—there are no words. This book has been in the works for ten years (which is why I'm struggling with the sequel), and after years of writer's block, writing, revisions and anxiety, it's seeing people for the second time! … Continue reading Today is My Book’s Debut!
Book Review: The Bright and Breaking Sea
The Bright and Breaking Sea by Chloe Neill 🌺🌺🌺/5 Kit Brightling is one of the few women captains in the Queen's Navy, and one of the youngest due to her prowess in battle and her magical abilities. Her true abilities, however, are kept secret, until she's assigned on a rescue mission alongside Rian Grant, a … Continue reading Book Review: The Bright and Breaking Sea
Book Review: Phoenix Extravagant
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee 🌺🌺🌺🌺.5/5 Dragons. Art. Revolution. Jebi isn't a revolutionary. They're an artist, and they just want to paint, dammit. So when they're turned away from the painting exams, thrown out of their house after their sister finds out their adoption of another man, and they get an offer from the … Continue reading Book Review: Phoenix Extravagant
Book Review: The Once and Future Witches
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E Harrow 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 There were once witches, and there will be witches again. In 1893 (what is it with this year and literature??), there are no witches, but the three Eastwood sisters—broken apart and coming back together—are determined to make things better for womenkind. To regain the power that was … Continue reading Book Review: The Once and Future Witches
December 2021 TBR
It's December! 2020 is almost over! However, this hell year's wrap-up doesn't mean that we can rest easy. The pandemic is still going strong (and spiking really horribly) in many places, and we still need to do our part by wearing our masks, limiting our travel and washing our hands. Even if you and your … Continue reading December 2021 TBR
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Want to Reread
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week's theme is books I want to reread! I … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Want to Reread
November 2020 Wrap-Up
While I failed miserably at NaNoWriMo this year (don't do NaNo while your already stressful job is transitioning to a brand-new software system without a plan and during a nail-biting election), I still wrote a good chunk of this draft and I read a lot of books! Much of the reading came from a wondrous … Continue reading November 2020 Wrap-Up
The Suspected Bibliophile 