Black Leopard, Red Wolf

I have had every book that Marlon James has ever written on my TBR (and, for most of them, on my shelves) for years. I’ve heard his writing is amazing and the stories are intense and affecting, but for some reason this mood reader has just never been in the mood. And then BLRW was…

Trail of Lightning

I’ve wanted to read this one for a while now – it’s been on my TBR cart for almost a year. It was my suggestion for my distance book club this month, in honor of Native American Heritage Month, and it won the popular vote. So woohoo! Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse After a…

Pet

I read Emezi’s debut novel, Freshwater, last year and was completely enthralled. It was unique and fascinating and like nothing I had ever read before. So I was pretty sure this was a novel I was going to read eventually no matter what the circumstances, but it moved up my TBR pretty quickly after it…

The Stone Sky

Here we are, the finale of this absolutely stunning, award-winning, post-apocalyptic trilogy. I started it over a year ago now, with The Fifth Season. And then read the second book, The Obelisk Gate just a month or two ago. This story is so wonderfully profound and evocative, it’s one that I wanted to speed through…

A Curse So Dark and Lonely

Y’all. This book has been on my radar since it was published. Which, I thought was sometime last year, but it turns out it was just this past January? Anyways the long and short of it is: Beauty and the Beast retelling? ALWAYS. And even though this one didn’t have quite as many libraries as…

The Silence of the Girls

This one has been on my TBR from the second I heard of it. I LOVE Greek mythology. I mean, I love any country’s/culture’s mythology, to be honest, but Greek is one of the classics (pun intended?). Anyways, I was super excited about this retelling of the Trojan War, and (let’s be honest cause he’s…

Welcome to Night Vale

I’m not sure what it was that drew me to think book originally, perhaps the cover (the colors and design really catch your eye), perhaps it was the title (again, something about it is really attention-grabbing), perhaps it’s because I heard it was based on a hit podcast and, though I’m not into podcasts, that…

Gods of Jade and Shadow

I requested this one from NetGalley and was so excited when I was granted access. I love mythology, basically of any origin, but I have rarely (ever? …because after finishing I realized that the only parts of this book that were even remotely familiar were things I remembered from The Road to El Dorado, which,…

Soulless

I have really got to start writing down the #bookstagrammers behind the recs. I have read so many books that I’ve only found through random posts and greats suggestions from fellow bookworms on Instagram and I never remember who to thank! Regardless, this is one of those. And I’m sending a thank you to the…

The Obelisk Gate

Alright, it’s taken me months to get to reading this sequel. I have no excuse other than being distracted by other books and the inevitably-too-fast passing of time. Anyways, here we are. And what a sequel it is! Now, let me warn you that there are likely (read: definitely) going to be spoilers for the…