Wow… I wish I understood baseball better. In my defense, I’ve only ever watched two full games of baseball in my entire life. But luckily, I was still able to enjoy this book! In The Prospects by KT Hoffman, Gene Ionescu is living his dream: playing on a minor league baseball team, where he’s often …
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Book Review | Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea
In Can’t Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne, Reyna is a guard in the queen’s castle, but is growing tired of being beaten down and put in danger by assassination attempts all the time. Moreover, she’s sick of hiding her relationship with Kianthe, the realm’s strongest mage. So when Reyna is briefly held hostage …
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Book Review | A Letter to the Luminous Deep (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of A Letter to the Luminous Deep by Sylvie Cathrall. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In A Letter to the Luminous Deep, E. Cidnosin lives in the Deep House, a technological …
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Book Review | The Black Flamingo
In The Black Flamingo by Dean Atta, Michael grows up in London, uncertain of who he is. He doesn’t feel that he’s Jamaican enough, or Greek Cypriot enough to identify with either group. And then there’s his sexuality, as it becomes more and more apparent as he grows up that he’s definitely not straight. So …
Book Review | The Emperor and the Endless Palace
In The Emperor and the Endless Palace by Justinian Huang, we flit back and forth between three different time periods, 4 BCE, 1740 CE, and the present day. In the first, a young man is tasked with seducing the emperor but quickly learns that the situation is far more complicated than he expected. In the …
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