While some speculative novels choose to thinly veil their messages and hide them behind metaphors, Adjei-Brenyah pulls you in with a concept that seems ripped from the blaxploitation and women in prison film genres, then hits you with real facts every few chapters.
Category: Book Reviews
Book Review: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Well, this was sure a book to be in the middle of reading when our country once again elected a racist president.
Book Review: Under the Henfluence by Tove Danovich
As part of deciding whether I should become a Chicken Lady, I borrowed Under the Henfluence by Tove Danovich.
Book Review: The Truth According to Ember by Danica Nava
It’s hard for me to accurately review a romcom, because written humor just so rarely works for me.
Book Review: Model Home by Rivers Solomon
This is a well-written, well-paced, thought-provoking book which is also probably the most disturbing and joyless thing I’ve read all year.
Book Review: How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis, LPC
What does it matter if the floors are swept, when we might re-elect a fascist into the Oval Office?
Book Review: Two Romance Novels and SBTB Recap
I have not had the bandwidth to write reviews for the past month and a half, so please enjoy these two short reviews.
Book Review: The Swans of Harlem by Karen Valby
Let me go ahead and tell you the coolest thing about this book: at the time of recording the audiobook, all five of the featured dancers were still alive.
Book Review: Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol
I am happy to say that Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol was an absolute delight and I read it in a single sitting.
Book Review: Love at 350° by Lisa Peers
I love a good slow burn, but Tori and Kendra spend so little time together on the page, that when their happy ending finally arrived, I wasn’t particularly convinced by or invested in it.