Review: We Fell Apart
A genuinely good book that I read at entirely the wrong time, in entirely the wrong headspace. Lyrical, emotionally honest, with a heroine who is allowed to be a complete mess without apologizing for it. This one and I have unfinished business.
Keep readingReview: Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil
If you love books that pull you out of your seat and drop you inside the story, this is one of them. Bury Our Bones asks what you would have done, and then keeps asking it, across different women, different centuries, and different impossible circumstances. Dark, lyrical, and impossible to fully put down.
Keep readingReview: Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me
A cozy mystery dressed up as a fantasy war story, this series keeps proving that the smartest person in the room wins every time. A fun, satisfying sequel with earned twists and a heroine worth rooting for, even if it can’t quite match the magic of discovering her for the first time.
Keep readingReview: We Were Liars
Everyone already knows We Were Liars. You don’t need another review. What you might not have considered is what it means that the same author who wrote it also wrote books that feel like they came from a completely different person, and what that says about voice, range, and what we’re actually chasing when we…
Keep readingReview: Big Mushy Happy Lump
Big Mushy Happy Lump is a collection of one-page comics about anxiety, introversion, and the particular experience of being a woman in the world, and it is genuinely delightful. Funny, warm, and very easy to finish in one sitting. The kind of read that makes you feel seen without asking anything of you in return.
Keep readingReview: Hench
A supervillain story with razor-sharp one-liners and, somehow, a deep love of research methodology. Hench is unpredictable, genuinely witty, and the kind of book that makes you wish you had read it twice, just to catch everything you missed the first time.
Keep readingReview: I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom
Some books make you wish you had a highlighter. This is one of them. Jason Pargin writes dialogue so sharp it almost hurts, wraps it around a cast of characters you will love and hate in equal measure, and then somehow ties the whole chaotic thing together at the end. Ups and downs included, this…
Keep readingReview: Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds
I cried. I was completely invested the entire time. And I still can’t stop thinking about it. Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds is easily my top read of the year so far, and it isn’t close.
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