Review: Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor

Title: Who Fears Death Author: Nnedi Okorafor Rating: 4.5/5 stars Summary: In a far future, post-nuclear-holocaust Africa, genocide plagues one region. The aggressors, the Nuru, have decided to follow the Great Book and exterminate the Okeke. But when the only surviving member of a slain Okeke village is brutally raped, she manages to escape, wandering…

Review: Mexican Gothic

Title: Mexican Gothic Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia Rating: 5/5 stars Summary: After receiving a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find - her cousin’s husband, a handsome…

ARC August 2020

I've never done ARC August (hosted by Read. Sleep. Repeat) even though I've seen it around over the years, mostly because I'm such a small fish in the book community and I only have 1-2 ARCs to read (if any) in a given month. Since I just refreshed the blog and have found some new…

ATLA Book Tag

Since we've been stuck in quarantine, rewatching Avatar: The Last Airbender has been one of the things I know will bring me joy even when I'm having a rough day. I wouldn't say this show is flawless, but it is a great show full of incredible characters and a rich mythology and world. Since I've…

Hidden Gem SFF Recommendations

There are a lot of books that everyone loves and can't stop talking about, but when you finally read them, they just aren't your cup of tea. And then there's the opposite, those hidden gems that not a lot of people are reading or talking about, and you don't understand why! I'm including a list…

Review: Scythe

Title: Scythe Author: Neal Shusterman Rating: 4/5 stars Summary: Thou shalt kill. A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery. Humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now scythes are the only ones who can end life—and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the…

Review: We Hunt the Flame

Title: We Hunt the Flame Author: Hafsah Faizal Rating: 3/5 stars Summary: People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to…

Diverse Fantasy inspired by History and Myth

Here is my second list of diverse SFF recommendations, once again all written by women. Again, it's certainly not all-encompassing, but these are books I've really enjoyed. I'm sticking to adult fantasy for this list, but I do plan to do a YA list very soon! Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno Garcia:…

ARC review: Boyfriend Material

Title: Boyfriend Material Author: Alexis Hall Rating: 4/5 stars Summary: Wanted: One (fake) boyfriend Practically perfect in every way Luc O'Donnell is tangentially--and reluctantly--famous. His rock star parents split when he was young, and the father he's never met spent the next twenty years cruising in and out of rehab. Now that his dad's making…

Review: The Beekeeper’s Apprentice

I have a love-hate relationship with Sherlock Holmes. I grew up with my parents quoting different famous scenes from the original books, and I loved watching and reading all the Sherlock Holmes adaptations. When I actually sat down to read Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories in college, I was deeply uncomfortable with how racist they…