Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth starts in 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls in New England, where two girls make a secret club called the Plain Bad Heroines Society. But their clandestine meetings are brought to an abrupt end when their bodies are found, covered in yellow jacket stingers. Then, more deaths …
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Book Review | Beach Read
Beach Read by Emily Henry tells the story of January Andrews, an author who is suffering from writer’s block. This is largely due to the fact that her father has recently died, and she has since learned that he had been unfaithful to her mother for years. She moves back to her father’s hometown to …
Book Review | How to Train Your Dragon
In Cressida Cowell’s book How to Train Your Dragon, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III starts training with the other kids in Berk to be dragon masters. To do this, each of the boys must steal a dragon from the nest, and Hiccup gets a tiny, not-at-all-intimidating dragon who is very grumpy and stubborn. Yet this is …
Book Review | The Deep
The Deep by Rivers Solomon tells of the Wajinru, who dwell deep in the ocean. They are descended from the women thrown overboard off slave ships, and they have evolved into beings that resemble fish. Now, one of them carries all the memories of their people—the Historian. Yetu has been Historian since she was a …
Book Review | The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy by Mackenzi Lee picks up a few months after The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue ended. We find Felicity Montague struggling to make ends meet while she tries to get into medical school, which, as a woman, she’s barred from. Then, an unexpected proposition sends her fleeing …
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