In The Dictionary of Lost Things by Pip Williams, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a small building where lexicographers—including her father—spend their days researching and defining words for the upcoming publication of the Oxford English Dictionary’s first edition. As Esme watches, she learns all about the power of words, but cannot help noticing …
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Book Review | The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (ARC)
I received a digital advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels by India Holton. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. I didn’t expect to ever use “swashbuckling” and “Jane Austen–esque” in the same sentence, but …
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Book Review | Ariadne (ARC)
I received a digital advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Ariadne by Jennifer Saint. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Ariadne, we meet the titular character, who grows up in Crete in her father King Minos’s household. She has …
Book Review | Plain Bad Heroines
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 …
Book Review | Outlawed (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Outlawed by Anna North. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In an alternate world in which a flu decimates—and in fact destroys—America as we know it, fertility is valued above everything. …
Righter of Words 