Finding Joy by Anika Toro — a lil’ review ✨ I loved this book. Let’s start with that cover?? bright yellow, paper-cut trees and clouds, the word “joy” scattered everywhere like it escaped from the page — i was sold before i even read the description. so here’s the concept and it’s SO cool: Anika Read More …
Kathe Koja’s Dark Matter is the third book in her Dark Factory series and like the first two, reading it feels like stepping into a dream you’re not sure you agreed to have, but suddenly you’re wide awake and completely hooked. This whole series pushes the boundary between what’s real and what’s manufactured with the Read More …
Elita is one of those books that starts out feeling like a quiet little mystery and then suddenly you’re fully obsessed. The book takes place in 1951 in the Pacific Northwest, and follows two women—well, a woman and a girl—who’ve both been abandoned in completely different ways. The story kicks off when two prison guards Read More …
I Who Have Never Known Men is a strange, haunting little book that pulls you in with its mystery. It follows a girl who’s spent her whole life locked underground with a group of women, never knowing why or what the world outside is really like. An event occurs that allows them to escape and Read More …
Eugen Bacon’s Novic is a dark and lyrical story of the journey of a young man figuring out why he is immortal. Bacon’s prose is a character in itself—a poetic and unsettling force that wraps the reader in a haunting atmosphere. This is a background story for Novic, who appears in Bacon’s novel Claiming T-Mo, Read More …
I just finished “Little Heaven” by Nick Cutter, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Talk about a twisted journey into the the deep, dark heart of the wilderness (literally)! The story revolves around a group of three misfit mercenaries who are hired to help a woman check on the welfare of her nephew at a remote religious Read More …
I’ve been on a bit of a graphic novel kick lately and this one was so enjoyable. Set in the 80’s, four kickass paper girls run into all kinds of madness and mayhem. Scifi, timetravel, monsters, humor all converge to make this a really fun, fast-paced romp! A real stranger things vibe for sure. I Read More …
I just recently got my hands on the graphic novel Witchcraft: A Graphic History: Stories of wise women, healers and magic by Lindsay Squire (Author) and Lisa Salsi (Illustrator). I thoroughly enjoyed this engaging exploration of the historical, cultural, and mythological dimensions of witchcraft. This book dives into how witches have been perceived over centuries—often Read More …
This book floored me. A dystopian novel with two unlikely companions. Ysmany is a young girl fleeing her community in order to save a baby from a military grade twitch (human who voluntarily chose a technologically advanced “secondskin” suit making them essentially hybrid tech/human) who leads the community and rids them of any perceived threats. Read More …
Let’s start by saying, I loved this book! Emilia Hart’s debut novel Weyward weaves together the stories of three women across different centuries, each facing some form of male oppression or abuse, either personally, or in the case of one, the abuse of her childhood friend. The timeline goes back and forth between 1619, 1942, Read More …