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May 10, 2022

REVIEW: Siren Queen by Nghi Vo

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ ReviewsChinese American heroine / coming-of-age / Dark Fantasy / diversity / First-Person / Historical / Hollywood Golden Age / lesbian heroine / LGBTQIA characters / Magical Realism / monsters / POC / POC authorNo Comments

From award-winning author Nghi Vo comes a dazzling new novel where immortality is just a casting call away It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic. “No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers.” Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming ... more >

May 20, 2021

REVIEW: That Thing about Bollywood by Supriya Kelkar

JayneBook Reviews / C+ ReviewsBollywood / divorce / family relationships / First-Person / Indian American / Magical Realism / middle grade / POC / POC author / self discoveryComments Off on REVIEW: That Thing about Bollywood by Supriya Kelkar

Bollywood takes over in this contemporary, magical middle grade novel about an Indian American girl whose world turns upside down when she involuntarily starts bursting into glamorous song-and-dance routines during everyday life. You know how in Bollywood when people are in love, they sing and dance from the mountaintops? Eleven-year-old ... more >

January 19, 2018

REVIEW: Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

JanineA- Reviews / Recommended ReadsLiterary fiction / love story / Magical Realism / migration / Relationships / war8 Comments

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Dear Mr. Hamid, Your acclaimed novel begins this way: IN A CITY SWOLLEN BY REFUGEES but still mostly at peace, or at least not yet openly at war, a young man met a young woman in a classroom and did not speak to her. For many days. His name was ... more >

Love and Gravity by Samantha Sotto
February 16, 2017

REVIEW: Love and Gravity by Samantha Sotto

Joanne RenaudB ReviewsContemporary / Magical Realism / Time-Travel4 Comments

Dear Ms. Sotto, So, this was an interesting book. It has a high concept. Cellist Andrea in modern San Francisco, when she plays her cello, can somehow create a crack in the space-time continuum and somehow commune with a young man her age, living centuries ago—who turns out to be ... more >

March 24, 2015

REVIEW: The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

JiaC ReviewsAlgonquin / female friendship / ghosts / Magical Realism / murder / Young-AdultComments Off on REVIEW: The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

Dear Ms. Suma, Your debut novel, Imaginary Girls, served as my first exposure to your work. It featured secrets and sisters, both things I love. The Walls Around Us follows a similar vein. It’s a story of friends and the awful truth that binds them. Vee and Ori have been ... more >

February 26, 2014

GUEST REVIEW: Lost Lake by Sarah Addison Allen

Guest ReviewerB- ReviewsContemporary / Magical Realism12 Comments

Dear Ms. Allen, I am a huge fan. There’s just no use starting out with any other introduction than that. A clever friend gifted me a copy of Garden Spells several years ago, and it was love at first sight. I quickly devoured each of your successive books, and while I can ... more >

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