Maybe my standards for dragon books are too high, because I have yet to find the Great One. Still, this was entertaining enough. Patrick Ness’ novel Burn is a young adult fantasy about an alternate universe during the Cold War. Here, dragons have existed forever and are a part of life, if an aloof and …
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Book Reviews | The Tea Dragon graphic novels
The Tea Dragon Society and The Tea Dragon Festival are two graphic novels for kids by Kate O’Neill. They are set in a fantasy land populated by various animals and creatures called tea dragons, which grow tea leaves on their horns. Society follows a girl called Greta, who is training to be a blacksmith but …
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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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Top 10 Books I Read in 2019
I’ve read so much this year, and I’m quite proud of myself for it. I may still gravitate toward the same few genres (young adult, fantasy, and mythology), but I also got a bit out of my comfort zone by delving into more graphic novels and a few nonfiction books too. Narrowing down my top …
Book Review | Pride
Time for a Jane Austen retelling! In Pride by Ibi Zoboi, when a rich family renovates the home across the street, Bushwick native Zuri Benitez along with her sisters are desperate to who their new neighbors will be. As luck would have it, the sons happen to be not only rich, but also handsome. Zuri’s …
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