For once, I read a duology without waiting months and months in between the books! In Darcie Little Badger’s books Elatsoe and Sheine Lende, we follow two members of the same family: Ellie and Shane, a granddaughter and grandmother. In the first book, Ellie is a high schooler living in an America quite like our …
Tag: historical fiction
Book Review | Hemlock & Silver
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. T. Kingfisher is an auto-read author for me, if you haven’t noticed by now. I have yet to read …
Book Review | Katabasis (ARC)
I read this, quite literally, for the hell of it. (I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Katabasis by R. F. Kuang. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general.) Katabasis by R. F. Kuang follows Alice Law, a Cambridge …
Book Review | Bochica (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Bochica by Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Bochica by Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro, Antonia spent her formative years in La Casona, a grand house in Columbia built by her …
Book Review | Great Big Beautiful Life
In Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry, Alice Scott is a writer determined to find her big break, and she thinks she’s found it when she tracks down Margaret Ives, heiress to a famous family and who famously vanished from the public eye two decades ago. But when Alice arrives in the tiny Georgia …
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