A Closed and Common Orbit

This has been a big month for me as far as sequels. And not just any sequels…but such GREAT ones. I just recently posted my review for Vengeful, the follow-up to Schwab’s amazing X-men-ish novel Vicious. It was just as good as the first! And now I’ve finished reading A Closed and Common Orbit, the…

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Vengeful

I read Vicious, the first book in what is now the Villians series, over a year ago. In fact, it was one of the very first books I ever officially published a review for on my blog. And it was an all-the-way 5-star review situation. Amazeballs. Anyways, I felt good about where it ended. I…

Station Eleven

This one has been on my list longer than I care to admit, considering that I just now have gotten around to it. And I mean, it’s not like I’m not reading books as fast as possible over here, but I still have to say, I regret it taking so long to get to this…

Kindred

As I have mentioned before, I’m trying to read books from a more representative range of authors this year. I have always read more female authors than male…I just have always gravitated that way. But I realized that I was not doing as well reading books from a variety of racial, ethnic, sexuality, etc. authors.…

Brightly Burning

I think I’ve said this before, but it’s super true, so I feel like it’s worth repeating. I LOVE Jane Eyre. It’s probably my favorite classic. And not only that, but I cannot get enough Jane Eyre retellings. Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye is probably my favorite, but I own and/or have read at least…

Binti

This one has been on my TBR for awhile now, and I jumped it to the top after it was one of the most recommended books on a “what to read next by diverse authors” bookstagram post that I put up a few weeks ago. And thank you to all the voters – they were right,…

The Terranauts

T.C. Boyle is an incredibly prolific author, one whose name is fairly widely known and respected, but I’ll be honest I have never really considered reading anything by him, nor even heard of this book, until it was sent to me in a book subscription box (Muse Monthly...sadly, they are now on hiatus). And even…

The Power

Alright this book sounded like the perfect one for me right from the start, for a number of reasons. Essentially it's a feminist fantasy/scifi sort of situation – pretty much my two favorite genres rolled into one. So immediately it was on my TBR list. And then it won the Bailey’s Women’s Prize for Fiction,…

An Unkindness of Ghosts

This book was already on my 2018 TBR list (you can see it on my Back the Backlist Challenge list) when my long-distance book club decided, for a number of reasons, that we wanted to focus on making our February book an #ownvoices choice. This was the book I suggested and, after voting, it was…

Borne

I received this book months ago, now, in my first (and only) Quarterly Box. I originally ordered it because the box is curated by the author and includes both their novel (with annotations!) and two other books that they used as inspiration for, or are in some other way related, to their own book. I…