Book Reviews – Page 2 – Rich in Color

A well armored person is standing with a mace over one shoulder on this book cover.

Review: Year of the Reaper

12 November, 202111 November, 2021

Title: Year of the Reaper Author: Makiia Lucier Genres: Historical Fantasy, Mystery Pages: 336 Publisher: Clarion Books Review Copy: Received an eARC from the publisher Availability: Available now Summary: The […] Read More

The book cover. A young person with long hair is wearing headphones and has slight lines indicating eyes, but no other facial features and is wearing a camisole and long skirt and is holding a book. There are some raindrops falling just on the person and not to the left or right. The Title is on the skirt. A snake is at the bottom of the skirt along the ground. It's head is to the right of the person and the body is in a backwards s and the tail is somewhere behind the standing person.

Book Reviews, Fantasy, LGBTQIA, Mystery

Review: A Snake Falls to Earth

5 November, 20214 November, 2021

Title: A Snake Falls to Earth Author: Darcie Little Badger Publisher: Levine Querido Pages: 384 Review copy: Digital ARC via Edelweiss Availability: The digital version releases on 11/9/21. The hard copy and […] Read More

Graphic Novels, LGBTQIA

Review: Squad

29 October, 202111 October, 2021

Title: Squad Creator: Maggie Tokuda-Hall, Lisa Sterle (Illustrator) Genres: Graphic novel, paranormal fantasy Pages: 224 pages Publisher: Greenwillow Books Review copy: Library Availability: Available now! Summary: Pretty Little Liars meets […] Read More

Three different book covers of How Do You Live? The first shows young men in uniform walking on a street under the light of the moon. Their backs are to reader. The second is not realistic and shows the back of a young man in traditional Japanese clothing sitting on a rounded object with other rounded objects nearby. The final is in daylight and has a young boy riding a bicycle toward reader. He's in the countryside and is looking up toward the sky.

Book Reviews, Historical, Translation

Mini-Review: How Do You Live?

27 October, 202126 October, 2021

How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshinō–Translated by Bruno Navasky Publisher’s Summary: First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino’s How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in Japan as a […] Read More

Book Reviews, Fantasy, Historical, Horror

Book Review: House of Glass Hearts

22 October, 202121 October, 2021

Title: House of Glass Hearts Author: Leila Siddiqui Genres: Historical Fiction, SciFi/Fantasy Pages: 275 Publisher: Yali Books Review Copy: ARC from publisher Availability: Available now Summary: Maera and her ammi […] Read More

Book cover image. A young woman on the right and young man on the left. They are standing with their backs to each other, but are both looking over their shoulders at each other.

Contemporary, Romance

Review: It All Comes Back to You

8 October, 20217 October, 2021

Title: It All Comes Back to You Author: Farah Naz Rishi Publisher: Quill Tree Books Pages: 432 Review copy: Digital ARC via publisher Availability: On shelves now Publisher’s Summary: After […] Read More