“The framing of The Very Best of Kate Elliott is clear: feminist stories featuring a diverse group of female characters presented in a variety of roles and journeys. The most obvious extrapolation here for me given my personal interests…
Diversity 2015
“As the girls chased her elegant silver-haired bun through Valor’s princely blue arches and murals, they gawked at the once virile visions of princes destroying demons and saving helpless princesses, now flaunting different endings: Snow White smashing out of…
It’s Friday which means we are over at Kirkus! Today Thea reviews the fourth issue of Vertigo Quarterly CMYK, the Black issue. If you haven’t heard, Vertigo Comics came up with a brilliant anthology concept last year, to release…
Over at Kirkus: Dream Houses by Genevieve Valentine
It’s Friday, which means we Book Smugglers are over at Kirkus! Today, Ana, having started the frantic reading for awards season, is talking about a novella by Genevieve Valentine (author of one of Ana’s top of 2014: The Girls…
Half-Resurrection Blues is Daniel José Older’s first novel and the start of the Bone Street Rumba series. The writing, the humour, the main character’s deeply felt sense of loneliness and the diversity of the world are praiseworthy. Title: Half-Resurrection…
Book Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
This is a book of lies and lost memories. This is a book of tales and curses and love. This is Holly Black doing what she does best: with gorgeous prose that flows beautifully, complicated female characters and a…
It’s Friday, which means we are over at Kirkus! This week, it is Ana’s turn to take over with a review of the last book she read in 2014: Gunpowder Alchemy by Jeannie Lin Adventure! Steampunk! Alternate History China!…
Holy indestructible alloy, Captain Stupendous! Geeks, Girls and Secret Identities is fun. …