B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviewsbisexual / Canada / Gay / PNR / POC / queer / Toronto4 Comments
Once bitten. Twice burned. Forever bonded. Don’t miss this riveting and romantic spin-off series from Jenn Burke, author of Not Dead Yet. Paranormals are dying. All over the city, with no explanation and only one thing in common: their magic is missing. Vampire and private investigator Evan Fournier isn’t supposed ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsbehavior / dinosaurs / evolution / fossils / non-fiction / paleontology / science2 Comments
Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures—how they reproduce and raise their young, how they hunt their prey or ... more >
B Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsAsian Americans / Asian characters / children's book / China / grandfather / Japan / Korea / picture books / POC / POC author / poetry5 Comments
Kiyoshi’s Walk by Mark Karlins Where do poems come from? This beautiful picture book about a young aspiring poet and his grandfather shows that the answer lies all around us—if we take the time to look. After Kiyoshi watches his grandfather, Eto, compose his delicate haiku, he wonders out loud: ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsDark Fantasy / fairy tale / Fairy-TalesNo Comments
A lushly illustrated set of dark, captivating fairy tales from the bestselling author of The Gospel of Loki with illustrator Charles Vess (Stardust). The beauty of stories; you never know where they will take you. Full of dreams and nightmares, Honeycomb is an entrancing mosaic novel of original fairy tales ... more >
B Reviews / B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1940s / noir mystery / private investigators4 Comments
Introducing Pentecost and Parker, two unconventional female detectives who couldn’t care less about playing by the rules, in their cases and in their lives. It’s 1942 and Willowjean “Will” Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York’s best, and most unorthodox, ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsfound family / friendship / Historical / Historical fiction / London / social change / World War II2 Comments
In this witty, charming follow-up to the acclaimed Crooked Heart, the life of lies a small time scammer and her adopted son have constructed in London becomes endangered during the tumultuous final months of World War II. It’s late 1944. Hitler’s rockets are raining down on London with vicious regularity ... more >