A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / 1930s / epistolary / Historical / London / shop assistant / working class10 Comments
Business As Usual by Jane Oliver and Ann Stafford was first published in 1933. It’s a delightful illustrated novel in letters from Hilary Fane, an Edinburgh girl fresh out of university who is determined to support herself by her own earnings in London for a year, despite the mutterings of ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsArranged Marriages / California / Chef / Contemporary / family relationships / First-Person / high-school / Islam / Muslim / opposites attract / POC / POC author / racism / revenge porn / self discovery / South-Asian / Young-Adult6 Comments
Danyal Jilani doesn’t lack confidence. He may not be the smartest guy in the room, but he’s funny, gorgeous, and going to make a great chef one day. His father doesn’t approve of his career choice, but that hardly matters. What does matter is the opinion of Danyal’s longtime crush, ... more >
A- Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviewsclass differences / competition / Fantasy / friendship / joint review / magical powers / magical school / prickly heroine / prophecy / survival / YA / YA fantasy12 Comments
Jennie, Sirius and I (along with Jayne), reviewed Naomi Novik’s last book, Spinning Silver, together. Our roundtable discussion was a lot of fun and the three of us decided to reunite for Novik’s recent release, the first book in her Scholomance series, A Deadly Education. –Janine. Janine: A Deadly Education ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads19th century literature / classic literature / English Literature / whaling1 Comments
I first became aware of Elizabeth Gaskell through television adaptions of her works Cranford and North and South; I then went on to read and enjoy those books. Sylvia’s Lovers is, by my count, the sixth Gaskell book I have read (I think I only have two left after this, ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended Reads#ownvoices / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / LGBTQ / Missouri / mystery / Parenthood / police procedural / Small-Town6 Comments
Please note: If you think this series might be of interest, you may wish to avoid this review—it’s full of spoilers for books one and two. Start with my review of Pretty Pretty Boys, book one in the series, instead. Trigger warnings: Dear Gregory Ashe, Recently I got into your ... more >
A Review Category / A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsdragons / fallen angels / Fantasy / m/m romance / mystery / novella / POC / POC author / Vietnamese mythologyNo Comments
From the author of the critically acclaimed Dominion of the Fallen trilogy comes a tale of dragons, and Fallen angels—and also kissing, sarcasm and stabbing. Lunar New Year should be a time for familial reunions, ancestor worship, and consumption of an unhealthy amount of candied fruit. But when dragon prince ... more >
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