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October 8, 2020

SPOILERIFIC THREAD: Return of the Thief & the Queen’s Thief Series by Megan Whalen Turner

JanineBook Reviewsgods / Mediterranean setting / plot twists / Queen’s Thief series / romantic-elements / spoilers / thief / YA fantasy110 Comments

A thread for discussing Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series with spoilers included. All your thoughts are welcome. For those readers who prefer spoiler-free reviews and discussions, reviews of the earlier books can be found below: The Thief The Queen of Attolia The King of Attolia A Conspiracy of Kings ... more >

October 7, 2020

INTERVIEW: Megan Whalen Turner is Back, and So is Eugenides

JanineInterviewsgods / Mediterranean setting / myth / Queen’s Thief series / romantic-elements / thief / YA fantasy5 Comments

Readers please note: the following interview contains SPOILERS for books 1-3 in Megan Whalen Turner’s Queen’s Thief series. As I mentioned the last time I interviewed Megan Whalen Turner, her Queen’s Thief series is one of my favorite YA series, novels filled with high-stakes intrigue and deception, loyal friendships, dangerous ... more >

September 21, 2020

REVIEW: Transposition by Gregory Ashe

JanineBook Reviews / C- Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / LGBTQIAP+ / locked room mystery / Missouri / mystery / police procedural / romantic-elements2 Comments

Trigger warnings: Dear Gregory Ashe, Recently I finished Pretty Pretty Boys, the first novel in your Hazard and Somerset series. While it wasn’t a keeper for me, the slow, slow burn relationship between the main characters and their explosive chemistry sucked me in, and I knew when I finished that ... more >

September 11, 2020

REVIEW: Pretty Pretty Boys by Gregory Ashe

JanineB- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / Contemporary / detective / enemies to lovers / LGBTQIAP+ / mystery / police procedural / romantic-elements16 Comments

Trigger warnings: Dear Gregory Ashe, I saw your Hazard and Somers series recommended and though I don’t read many mysteries or m/m novels, something made me want to pick it up. There’s a long free preview of this first book and by the time I reached the end of it, ... more >

July 10, 2020

REVIEW: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

JanineBook Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / 1950s / Gothic / haunted house / horror / Mexico / POC / POC author / romantic-elements / socialite5 Comments

Trigger warning: Dear Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow, your 2019 fantasy novel, was terrific, and Untamed Shore, your noir thriller from earlier this year was also good. I don’t usually care for horror novels but I have enjoyed gothics, so when I learned about Mexican Gothic, your new ... more >

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January 7, 2020

What Janine is reading: SFF read in 2019

JanineB Reviews / B+ Reviews / B- Reviews / Book Reviewsbeing true to oneself / biracial heroine / clones / diversity / epistolary / flashbacks / genre-bender / hidden identity / LGBTQIAP+ / murder mystery / necromancer / POC / portal fantasy / queer / Reading lists / romantic-elements / Science Fiction / space travel / story-within-a-story / sword fighter / YA science fiction6 Comments

Six Wakes by Mur Lafferty A spaceship crew of six clones wake up in a cloning vat missing twenty-five years of memories. Of their much older previous incarnations, five are dead and one is comatose. Additionally, the spaceship has changed course. It quickly becomes apparent that one of the clones ... more >

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