book-review

  • The Green Bone Saga: Organized crime meets fantasy?

    UGH. Again, I’ve arrived at the end of an amazing series. It’s such a bittersweet feeling. Fonda Lee’s Green Bone Saga was incredible and I highly recommend it. The story is a high stakes rollercoaster with themes of tradition, organized crime, dysfunctional family dynamics, and light fantasy elements all wrapped into one. There are some…

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  • Dark Matter and the choices that damn us

    I know I’m a little late to this party but, Dark Matter is a science fiction masterpiece. This story unpacks the Many Worlds Interpretation in quantum mechanics: what if every choice you make triggers a reality in which you chose the opposite, and those outcomes are physically realized in alternate realities? Jason, the protagonist in…

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  • 📚 Come Read With Me: My 2026 TBR

    2025 was a great year! New releases, long-overdue backlist discoveries, and a few books that really touched me emotionally. Here’s what’s currently sitting on my TBR for 2026. Some are continuations, some are finally-I’ll-get-to-it promises, I’m hoping some will emotionally destroy me! We’ll see. 🔥 Continuing Series I’m Locked Into ⚔️ Epic Fantasy Commitments 🩸…

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  • Best of 2025

    Best of 2025

    I read a lot of books in 2025 (92). Some were good, some bad, some just okay. A few just voluntary junk food. But here’s a list of some serious sci-fi, fantasy stand-outs. A few of these were new and a few old, but all great picks to check out in 2026 if you haven’t…

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  • When you’re forced to root for the villains

    ★★★★☆ Vicious and Vengeful were both such fun quick reads. While I can definitely tell that this was some of Schwab’s earlier writing, it was still great- and managed to get me out of a slight reading slump with the fast pace! The story isn’t as rich in prose or emotionally heavy as some of…

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