A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAlien Hero / cats / Contemporary / Fiction / First-Person / found family / friendship / juvenile / POC / Science Fiction4 Comments
He’s not a stray house cat, he’s an immortal being. And now he must choose whether to return to his planet or remain with his new human friend in a humorous, heart-tugging story from the author of I, Cosmo. The cat that Olive rescues from a flood has a secret: ... more >
A Reviews / Recommended ReadsChicago / Contemporary / found family / rivals to lovers13 Comments
Dear Kate Clayborn, Oh what a delight this book was. I think I was expecting a book a little more serious, a little more like Love Lettering which I enjoyed in a different way. But as it happened, Love at First has a different tone, a more… light-hearted charm. There’s ... more >
A- Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readscon-artist / dysfunctional family / found family / Historical / Historical fiction / London / World War II5 Comments
Paper Moon meets the Blitz in this original black comedy, set in World War II England, chronicling an unlikely alliance between a small time con artist and a young orphan evacuee. When Noel Bostock—aged ten, no family—is evacuated from London to escape the Nazi bombardment, he lands in a suburb ... more >
Book Reviews / Recommended Reads / Top Ten ListsAgent/Spies/Undercover / boarding school / Cold War / disabled hero / found family / genius loci / historical romance / king / Literary fiction / loner / m/m / magic users / one day courtship / passing / Reading lists / SF / thief / twins / UF / voting / war / YA / YA fantasy14 Comments
I spent much of 2020 grateful to books and authors for giving me a way to visit other times and places while stuck at home because of Covid. Below, listed in alphabetical order by author, are my top eight favorite books of 2020. Some grades have been adjusted since my ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsChristmas / Colorado / doctor hero / dysfunctional family / found family / holiday novella / humorous / Memory / novella5 Comments
Ori’s holidays are an endless series of elaborately awful meals cooked by her one-time stepfather Dave’s latest bride. Attended by a loose assemblage of family, Ori particularly dreads Grandma Elving—grandmother of Dave’s fourth wife—and her rhapsodizing about the Christmas she worked at Woolworth’s in the 1950s. And, of course, she ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / Asian characters / Fantasy / found family / LGBTQ / Malaysia / novella / POC / POC author / religion / Wuxia2 Comments
Zen Cho returns with a found family wuxia fantasy that combines the vibrancy of old school martial arts movies with characters drawn from the margins of history. A bandit walks into a coffeehouse, and it all goes downhill from there. Guet Imm, a young votary of the Order of the ... more >