The sprawling Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil spans three centuries and in doing so introduces and follows three young women, each completely different, but ultimately bound to each other whether they want to be or not. Maria is a young woman in Spain in the 16th century about to be married off to a man she knows nothing about. She hopes marriage will bring her a life of ... Read More...
Ungodly Rich by Katharine McGee
It's no secret that I love delving into a book’s depths in a lot of my reviews, but sometimes I love and NEED something lighter and less angsty. It was lucky then that I found Katharine McGee’s new novel, Ungodly Rich, an outsized wealthy-people-behaving-badly novel tweaked by the addition of Greek gods living in the modern-day world. After graduate school fell through Julia ... Read More...
The Tapestry of Fate
The infamous pirate Amina al-Sirafi is back. She made her debut in Shannon Chakraborty’s novel The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, where she was brought out of retirement to retrieve a kidnapped girl. When Tapestry of Fate, the newest novel in the series, begins it is years later and she’s happily living in her isolated home with her all of her family around her, including her ... Read More...
I, Medusa
Is there anything worse than being the ugly duckling in a family of gorgeous women? Yes. You could be mortal and they could be goddesses. That’s life for 17-year-old Meddy in I, Medusa by Ayana Gray, a refreshing retelling of the Greek myth about the monster Medusa. Meddy is a tomboy who loves books and dreams of escaping their isolated island for Athens. Her only vanity is ... Read More...
The Poet Empress
The Poet Empress is a debut by Shen Tao, set in 650AD China in the kingdom of Tensha. The current emperor is dying and two of his sons are vying for the throne. One of them, Terren, needs a bride and concubines, so a nationwide search is begun. During the approval process he randomly chooses the daughter of a rice farmer, a nobody from a poor famine-stricken village. Even more ... Read More...
Spinning Silver
In Spinning Silver author Naomi Novak takes the components of the fairytale Rumpelstiltskin and separates them in the same way the heroine in that story had to separate the straw to weave into gold. From seemingly unimportant, innocuous bits of chaff, Novak spins an entire storyline and then brings it all together for mesmerizing reading. The kind that jumps between characters ... Read More...
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