“A Thousand Nights”: AKA How to Do a Retelling Right
YES. Take notes, everyone, because this book right here is how to do a retelling. This is the kind of...
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“Black Widow: Forever Red” Needs More Black Widow
It seems unfair of me to review a book based on expectations, but I was at the Women of Marvel...
“The Rest of Us Just Live Here” Is a Story for the Rest of Us
Have you ever wondered what it was like to attend Hogwarts and not be Harry Potter? You're just trying to...
“Zeroes”: Not Your Average Superhero Story
Every power has a price. So says the cover of Zeroes, the combined effort of authors Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, and...
I Swear by My Pretty Floral Bonnet, I Will Make Everyone Read “Six of Crows”
In Six of Crows, author Leigh Bardugo returns to the fantastical world she created in the Grisha trilogy (Shadow and...
“Symphony for the City of the Dead”: A Haunting Portrait of War-Torn Russia
Symphony for the City of the Dead may look like a novel, with its artsy cover and its poetic title,...
Book Review: “Dumplin'” by Julie Murphy
I'm a fat girl. As a fat girl, I enjoy reading books where the protagonist is also a fat girl,...
“Mad About the Hatter” Is a Quick, Fun Read
So apparently Alice (as in the Alice) has a younger brother, Henry - a brother who has never believed Alice's...
Josephine Angelini Continues to Enchant with “Firewalker”
The second in Josephine Angelini's Worldwalker trilogy, Firewalker picks up immediately after Trial by Fire left off - with Lily returning to...
“A Whole New World” Is Just More of the Same
When I found out that Disney Publishing was releasing a series of YA books retelling classic Disney movies, I was...