the perfect opening sentence, Kathy Reichs leaves an unmistakable impression of what life as a forensic anthropologist feels like.
Book Reviews
Book Reviews on YA and other interesting things I’m reading.
Review: Cemetery Boys
This book broke my heart and put it back together again in such a lovely way.
Review: Soulless Manga Volume 1
If you don't like excessively flowery prose, for which Gail Carriger is known, you might prefer this version of her series.
Review: Iron Widow
This book was exactly the book I needed and wanted to read right now. It is violent and cathartic as it screams at the injustices of the traditional Chinese patriarchy in a dystopian future.
Review: I’d Tell You I love You, but Then I’d Have to Kill You
Sophronia is a character who is dreadfully curious about the world, but suffers from the societal restrictions of being a girl.
Review: Etiquette & Espionage
Sophronia is a character who is dreadfully curious about the world, but suffers from the societal restrictions of being a girl.
Review: The Sleeper and the Spindle
With respect to the story, I love the twists he puts on both Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.
Review: Snow, Glass, Apples
I love that Neil Gaiman the Snow White fairy tale it on its head. The queen is a tragic heroine.
Review: Dreadnought – Nemesis Series
A superhero origin story. A trans teen taking on the mantle of a superhero despite crippling self doubt and anxiety.
Review: Cinder – Lunar Chronicles
I love that this is a fairy tale retelling, complete with cruel stepmother and stepsisters, dead father, but set in a future dystopian world. Cinder is a cyborg, meaning she is missing her foot and hand, and has implants all over her body. In this world she is a disposable citizen, made more so because of the plague that ravages the world.
HC Fitzpatrick 