Book #105 of 2021: A Universe of Wishes: A We Need Diverse Books Anthology edited by Dhonielle Clayton I love how works like this aim to spotlight authors and characters of under-represented backgrounds in literature, but for me as a reader, the YA sci-fi and fantasy stories in this collection are generally more good than …
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Book Review: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray
Book #149 of 2017: Beauty Queens by Libba Bray This novel is all over the place tonally, and the satire doesn’t always land the way I think author Libba Bray intends it to. But there’s still a lot to enjoy in this girl-power comedy of teenage beauty pageant contestants crashing on a deserted island and …
Book Review: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Book #115 of 2017: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray (Gemma Doyle #1) I liked this book, but I didn’t quite love it. Author Libba Bray is talented at writing realistically flawed teenagers, and the downside is that her heroine Gemma Doyle comes across as very selfish, impetuous, and otherwise immature. I also …
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