Aminah Mae Safi’s This Is All Your Fault presents an enticing premise: a book about three girls trying to save their independent bookstore from closing in the course of one day? Paired with that cover…
‘Shine’ review: K-pop star Jessica Jung gives readers a look into the industry
Jessica Jung’s book Shine is an #ownvoices novel in which the author shares an identity with her protagonist in more ways than one. Not only are Jessica Jung and her protagonist Rachel both Korean-Ame…
Book Review: Greythorne (Bloodleaf #2) by Crystal Smith
Greythorne, the sequel to Bloodleaf by Crystal Smith, is a series of puzzling decisions that at once improve the series and wildly shift its previous intent. In this second novel, Aurelia’s worl…
Book Review: The Electric Heir by Victoria Lee
As with her first novel in the Feverwake duology, Victoria Lee’s sequel The Electric Heir crackles with that same magnetism that allures you to Noam’s chaotic and feverish world. Six months have passe…
Book Review: Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold
Elana K. Arnold spins fairy tale into fact with her debut Red Hood, a Little Red Riding Hood, retelling that cuts to the bone. Prom night: a long-awaited time for dancing, drinking, and for 16-year-ol…
Book Review: Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
If you dream a fiction and wake up with that fiction in your hands, it becomes fact. And for Maggie Steifvater’s Call Down the Hawk, such a sentiment rings especially true for her protagonists, who dw…
Book Review: The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
As a Chinese girl in the South, Jo Kuan has experienced a great deal of injustices: getting fired from jobs without reason; struggling to find work; sitting in the back rows of the streetcar; and most…