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.
Tag: book bingo 2024
Book Review: A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall
This novel is pure epistolary; while some books advertised as epistolaries intersperse more narrative chapters between the correspondence, everything in this book happens in a letter or other communication.
Book Review: Triple Sec by TJ Alexander
Triple Sec by AJ Alexander is a romance about a bartender which actually, gets this, has scenes of the main character tending bar and coming up with new cocktail recipes.
Book Review: Evicted by Matthew Desmond
Housing is a human right. We all just want to find a home where we feel safe and can build a life worth living.
Book Review: A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
Am I even capable of writing an intelligent review of a T. Kingfisher book? I feel like I turn into a caveman when talking about her works: “Book good. You read now!”
Book Review: Weird Women edited by Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger
Sometimes, when choosing books for Book Bingo, I make bad decisions.
Book Review: The Book of (More) Delights by Ross Gay
An audiobook of essayettes is so perfect for shorter drives, because when each chapter is only a few minutes long, you don’t have to leave off mid-chapter and then try to remember where you were when you get back into the car.
Book Review: Navigational Entanglements by Aliette de Bodard
Sometimes a novella is just the right length, and sometimes it’s too short. Now you know that if that’s the line I’m opening with, this book was just too short to tell the story it wanted to tell.
Book Review: There Is No Ethan by Anna Akbari
I just don’t think this story is as compelling as the author thinks it is.
Book Review: Dear Body edited by Lea Bordier
Living in this world in a body that was assigned female at birth brings a lot of both challenges and delights, and Dear Body edited by Lea Bordier shares twelve stories of different AFAB experiences.