4 stars — This is definitely outside my normal genre to read, but I kind of loved how it allowed me to learn of some little known (in the West) history through a fictional perspective. I’m just not as interested in non-fiction, so I loved having this opportunity to expand my horizons while still giving […]
OVERALL: 4 stars — This was an interesting way to go through 150 years of history. Sometimes it was a specific story from a time period, sometimes it was an example of something that might have happened at that time. Sometimes it was a higher view of historical people/events, and sometimes we were given a […]
4.5 stars — Well that was hella affecting. The last 2 sections in particular had me crying and crying. What an intriguing way to show how the past can affect future generations, and how we can learn from them even as they are so different from our present. Beautiful artwork. I ached with the Scars […]
4 stars — Well, that was me stepping WAYYYYYY outside my comfort zone. In multiple ways. First, I am wholeheartedly NOT a non-fiction reader. Like, I don’t gravitate towards it at all, and this might be the first voluntary non-fiction read of mine. It helped that it was also full of humour and satire, so […]
4.5 stars — Wow, that took me through all of the emotions. I had all these desires for the first half of the book, and then things started shifting and I started shifting with it…and feeling conflicted. And so confused. Needless to say because of all that, this is going to be a vague and […]
4.5 stars — OK, can I start off by saying that that cover is kind of misleading, and gave me a totally different impression of the book I was going to read? It kind of reminded me of an earlier Alienist cover, and so I was anticipating being freaked out…and I started getting myself in […]
OVERALL: 3.5 stars — You know, this was a pretty successful anthology! I find there are always a few gems (in this case it was Britt and the Bike God, Per Aspera Ad Astra, and A Curse, A Kindness), and then a few that just don’t hit. In this one, the ones that didn’t hit […]
4 stars — Wow. This one was fairly slow to start, and while I was enjoying it, I wasn’t wowed. It had some moments of repetition, and there were some pacing problems where I felt like there could have been some editing down. But then I got sucked right the fuck in, and holy cow […]
4.5 stars — I feel like it’s been awhile since I’ve been this emotionally impacted by a story. Daisy GOT to me. Like, I felt so hard for her, even despite the HUGE mistakes she was making all over the place. And it wasn’t just her, Trevor too! My poor hubby had to try to […]
This one had a super sweet beginning and the pacing was pretty decent throughout. I loved how they met in the beginning but I was a bit hesitant that when they reuninted if it was for the good of them both. Dorian was a bit too evil for my tastes and I don’t think I […]