Home (Binti #2)

I cannot believe it’s been like, two years, since I read Binti. I really enjoyed it too! But for some reason it just took me forever to pick up this second book. I don’t know. My husband has always been annoyed with me because I can totally leave a show in the middle of a…

A Memory Called Empire

After reading and LOVING The Long Way to a Small, Angry Plant (and the follow-up books set in the same world, A Closed and Common Orbit and Record of a Spaceborn Few), I realized that “space opera” was a new favorite sci-fi sub-genre for me. Oh, and of course, Binti is amazing, but I still…

Heart of Iron & Soul of Stars

This has been on my TBR since it came out last year, because I LOVE the story of Anastasia. My favorite movie growing up was the animated Anastasia (who can resist that little bat sidekick, Bartok?!). But seriously, the story has always fascinated me and even though it’s long been proven that Anastasia died at…

Record of a Spaceborn Few

Here we go, the third and (as far as what’s been published to date) final book of the Wayfarers trilogy. If you’ll recall, the first on The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet was the first space opera I had ever read and is now one of my all-time favorite novels. I literally could…

Emergency Contact

Everyone that I had seen that had read this book gave it good reviews, so it had been on my radar. And I was in the library looking for a “light” end of year read when I spotted this on the shelves and the spine popped out at me (love that blush and rose gold…