Book Reviews / C ReviewsAction/Adventure / animals / fantasy/scifi / LGBTQIA characters / POC / science11 Comments
The Kaiju Preservation Society is John Scalzi’s first standalone adventure since the conclusion of his New York Times bestselling Interdependency trilogy. When COVID-19 sweeps through New York City, Jamie Gray is stuck as a dead-end driver for food delivery apps. That is, until Jamie makes a delivery to an old ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsfantasy/scifi / Historical fiction / historical mystery / Scotland / young adult fiction4 Comments
I’ve read two previous books by Dana Schwartz, Choose Your Own Disaster and The White Man’s Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon. Both were non-fiction(ish?) – the first a memoir with a “Choose Your Own Adventure” conceit and the second a satirical look at famous authors from ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviewsanthropology / colonization / fantasy/scifi / novella / science / sorcerer / space flight2 Comments
In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAlien Hero / children's book / fantasy/scifi / picture books / POC2 Comments
He’s just a cute little unicorn who wants to take over the world. Special Agent Bubble07 is undercover on planet Earth. His mission: to decide whether his team of alien unicorns should invade Earth. Posing as a stuffed animal, he infiltrates the home of Earthling Daughter, where he puts up ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsaliens / fantasy/scifi / gender fluidity / KeyForge / LGBTQIA+ / mystery / non binary / Private-investigator / Science Fiction2 Comments
Alien detectives stumble across a mystery that could tear apart their patchwork planet, the Crucible, in this riotous science fantasy novel from the smash hit game, KeyForge Wibble & Pplimz, the Crucible’s most unusual private investigators, must set off from their office in Hub City to clear the name of ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewschildren's fiction / Fantasy / fantasy adventure / fantasy/scifi / Library / middle grade / Science FictionComments Off on REVIEW: The Library of Ever by Zeno Alexander
The Library of Ever is an instant classic for middle grade readers and book lovers everywhere—an adventure across time and space, as a young girl becomes a warrior for the forces of knowledge. With her parents off traveling the globe, Lenora is bored, bored, bored—until she discovers a secret doorway ... more >