And so commences my final review of The Song of the Shattered Sands. Here we are again with another gigantic book by Bradley P. Beaulieu - filled with wonderful prose and thrilling worldbuilding set in an original Arabian-inspired world. This is my final plea for you to go check it out. But, now there is…
If you know, you know. That’s the best way I can prepare any prospective reader for Jack Garbarino’s The Movement: How I Got This Body By Never Going To The Gym In My Life. If you don’t know, and you encounter this book in the wild, I can imagine your 150-page journey (if you make…
Continue reading ➞ The Movement: Nathan Fielder’s Crazy Contextual Concoction
The Sanderlanche cometh, and this time it’s riding a hulking metal locomotive. All aboard, because Brandy Sandy’s taking us back to the world of Mistborn. For me, it’s an especially exciting journey, because The Alloy of Law marks my first ever written review of a Brandon Sanderson book. Reading this one made me feel like…
I am already inclined to focus on climate and man vs. nature in stories, but this year I’m really feeling the pull. So, let's just casually review this next book that deals with the impending doom the news is talking about so much more often these days. Of course, when I say casually, I mean…
A Psalm for the Wild-Built is a novella about what it means to be human, and how it's up to you to define what that means for yourself. It is the first installment of Becky Chambers’ novella series about a monk that decided to quit their job and go live in the wilds and search…
Continue reading ➞ A Psalm For The Wild-Built – Quit Your Job, Get A Tea Cart, Teach Robots
Unfortunately for you, the book I am about to review doesn't come out for a couple weeks. But, I am so excited to talk about it that I had to make sure it didn't fly under the radar. It's one of our Dark Horse debuts of the second half of the year and you should…
Continue reading ➞ We Have Always Been Here – And So Shall They Remain
I am slowly stepping out of my somber reflection and trying to gather my thoughts on Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur. Upon finishing the book, I slowly closed the cover and then spent the next three days trying to unpack what I read. I still don’t fully grasp what happened or what it all…
If you are in the market for something different, Star Eater by Kerstin Hall has you covered. Set in a grimdark world, the book is about an authoritarian and aristocratic order of nuns that consumes the flesh of their order members to maintain superpowers similar to Spider-man. So, it's certainly different from anything else I…
I’m only one volume into Monstress by Marjorie Liu, but I enjoyed my experience with the graphic novel enough to know I wanted to pick up her new short story collection: The Tangleroot Palace. It wasn’t hard to buy into: Sana Takeda’s gorgeous art is gracing the cover and it promises tales of dangerous women.…
Continue reading ➞ The Tangleroot Palace – Caught Up In Twisted Tales
Alex Michaelides’ The Silent Patient debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list upon publication in 2019, sending readers down a quickfire page-turning journey. Fueled by an intensely fast-paced narrative, The Silent Patient never lets up, giving psychological thriller fans their next ~300 page obsession. One night, artist Alicia Berenson greets her husband Gabriel after…
