The Conductors by Nicole Glover 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Hetty Rhodes and her husband Benjy were celebrated conductors on the Underground Railroad, famous for their prowess in magic and for never losing a person. The war has ended, and both are making ends meet in Philadelphia, solving murders and mysteries the white authorities won't touch. But when a … Continue reading Book Review: The Conductors
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Book Review: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix 🌺🌺🌺/5 It's a 1983 that's kinda different from actual 1983, but not by much? Either way, Susan Arkshaw is off to London to find her father, who she has never met. After her first lead goes way south, she stumbles into Merlin, a left-handed bookseller who topples … Continue reading Book Review: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
Book Review: Ring Shout
Ring Shout by P. Djèlà Clark 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 The Klan has a plan to unleash more evil onto the earth, but luckily, Maryse Boudreaux has a magic sword and murder in her heart. She's out to stop the Klan and their monstrous Ku Kluxes, any way she can. Even if she has to travel to other … Continue reading Book Review: Ring Shout
Book Review: Mexican Gothic
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Hole. E. Fuck. I AM SHOOKETH. I AM SHAKETH. I AM VERKLEMPT. Okay, so the premise: a young socialite goes to a town in the mountains of Baja California to figure out what the hell is going on with her cousin, who married this white dude and then sent … Continue reading Book Review: Mexican Gothic
Book Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 January is a misfit in her own world. As a woman of color in White upper-class New England society, she's a curiosity, an oddity, meant to be admired for her uniqueness and then forgotten. Until she finds a book. A book about doors, and … Continue reading Book Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January
Book Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow
🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia When Casiopea Tun defies her wealthy grandfather and opens the secret chest in his bedroom, she accidentally awakens Hun-Kamé, god of death and the Supreme Lord of Xibalba. But Hun-Kamé was locked in the chest after being betrayed by his twin, and now he needs Casiopea's … Continue reading Book Review: Gods of Jade and Shadow