“A magic donkey could rip your heart out and make you go wild, if it knew you had an overwhelming desire to own it, and knew that you would do anything to capture its power.” “She is the prisoner of the ghosts and trapped inside her house.” “… of course he knows that Aboriginal SovereigntyContinue reading “PRAISEWORTHY – Alexis Wright”
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HAPPY MEDIUM – Sarah Adler
Gretchen Acorn, a fake spiritual medium (a hustler with a heart of gold), gets paid 10k by a wealthy client to “cleanse” a goat farm of a pesky (and pervy) ghost. The goat farm belongs to the client’s bridge partner, so Gretchen is expecting an older gentleman that she can hustle into thinking she’s solvedContinue reading “HAPPY MEDIUM – Sarah Adler”
ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK – Chris Whitaker
“I’d say follow your heart, but in that way madness lies.” It’s Stephen King meets Pat Conroy’s The Prince of Tides with the faintest dash of Fredrik Backman’s Beartown’s small town heart. It hums with hints of My Girl and Fried Green Tomatoes – perhaps it’s the bees or the friendship or both. In short,Continue reading “ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK – Chris Whitaker”
PEARL – Siân Hughes
CHOO! CHOO! The 2023 Booker Train journey is officially over! (With a little less than a week to spare!) Siân Hughes’s Pearl ( W. F. Howes Ltd 2023) is a slim little volume. I decided to read the audiobook as the print copies won’t be available until the end of the month, and I am gladContinue reading “PEARL – Siân Hughes”
CHILDREN OF ANGUISH AND ANARCHY – Tomi Adeyemi
Y’all. I don’t even know where to start or what to say. I have waited over half a decade for this book – the final installment of a trilogy that started with such a ferocious and addictive magic. The second installment left me baffled and sorely disappointed. At that time, I wrote: All the beautifulContinue reading “CHILDREN OF ANGUISH AND ANARCHY – Tomi Adeyemi”
THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI – Shannon Chakraborty
“For when Amina chose to leave her home and return to life at sea, she became more than a pirate. More than a witch. She became a legend.” A female pirate retired to a life of single-motherhood and relative domesticity takes to the sea for one more daring adventure? Sign me up. From the momentContinue reading “THE ADVENTURES OF AMINA AL-SIRAFI – Shannon Chakraborty”
PERISH – Latoya Watkins
I’ve been dragging my feet over this review, and I contemplated not even posting. But I remembered I posted about How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps her House, and that novel left me, as a reader, with the same sort of feeling as Latoya Watkins’s Perish (Tiny Reparations Books 2022). I’m actually going to recycle partContinue reading “PERISH – Latoya Watkins”
MIRRORED HEAVENS – Rebecca Roanhorse
“And I am happy to see your language is still more drunken sailor than Teek queen.” “Love me. And let fate do its damnedest to get around that.” Rebecca Roanhorse’s epic trilogy, Between Earth & Sky, has come to a close with Mirrored Heavens (SAGA PRESS 2024), and it is one of the more satisfyingContinue reading “MIRRORED HEAVENS – Rebecca Roanhorse”
THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON – Kimberly Lemming
Kimberly Lemming’s That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon (Orbit 2024, previously self-published in 2021) is not my usual read. (A huge thanks to the publisher for sending it to me.) It’s absolutely ridiculous and outrageous – and everything it sets out to be. It’s not the type of book that’s for meContinue reading “THAT TIME I GOT DRUNK AND SAVED A DEMON – Kimberly Lemming”
REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES – Shelby Van Pelt
Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures (HarperCollins 2022) has been hanging out on my TBR stack for well over a year. It’s moved from one stack to another, but I kept choosing something else. I suppose I didn’t want to be let down by yet another overhyped book. Long story short: I wasn’t. Short storyContinue reading “REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES – Shelby Van Pelt”
A Girl Named Tommi 