B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / dreams / Emperor / experimental novel / Fantasy / goddess / LGBTQIA+ / m/m / POC / POC author / quest / resistance/oppression / second-person POV4 Comments
Dear Simon Jimenez, Your debut novel, The Vanished Birds (2020), is one of my favorite science fiction novels of recent years. It earned an A from me when I reviewed it and made my Best of 2020 list. I’ve been waiting with bated breath for the release of The Spear ... more >
B Reviews Category / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsdreams / France / ghosts / Lisa-Cach / Penguin / Young-Adult6 Comments
Dear Ms. Cach, You are an author I keep an eye out for and when I saw that there would be a new novel from you after a bit of a wait, I felt a frisson of anticipation. I’ve loved to liked several of your previous books and have admired ... more >
B+ Reviews / C- Reviewsdemons / dreams / joint review / Paranormal / Young-Adult15 Comments
Jia: Theia Alderson is a British expat living in the sleepy California town of Serendipity Falls. Because of the circumstances surrounding her mother’s death. Theia lives a sheltered and suffocating life courtesy of her overprotective father. That all changes when a mysterious new boy, Haden Black, comes to town. The ... more >
C Reviewsdreams / Fae / missing persons / Urban-Fantasy8 Comments
Dear Ms. Pang, I’m a recovering burned-out reader of adult urban fantasy. These days it’s so difficult for me to pick up a novel in the subgenre and read it from beginning to end. But that doesn’t stop me from trying because the perpetual optimist in me still hopes to ... more >
B- Reviewsdreams / Paranormal / Young-Adult10 Comments
Dear Ms. Creagh, With the young adult genre being so popular and prolific these days, it’s pretty hard to stand out. So many vampires, werewolves, faeries, and zombies, oh my. But when I stumbled across your debut and learned that it was about dreams and Edgar Allan Poe, it caught ... more >
B Reviews Category / B+ Reviews / Book ReviewsArtist / coming-of-age / dreams / grieving / Italy / Maine / music / musician / mystery / Paranormal / professor / romantic-elements / Rome / twins / Womens-Fiction13 Comments
Dear Ms. Walsh, You don’t know me, but I sometimes lurk at your blog, Writer Unboxed, which is one of the best blogs for writers I know of. I’ve been following it since the days when you were writing this book, under the working title of Unbounded, so when Jane ... more >