Severance by Ling Ma REVIEW

I have been saying for about a month that we are living in the prologue of a dystopian novel. Severance is that novel. It is not for the faith of heart. It points a funhouse mirror on our world and asks: how did you handle it? The year is 2011. Candace Chen is a New

The Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler REVIEW

“When global climate change and economic crisis lead to social chaos in the early 2020s…” is the first clause on the back of my copy of The Parable of the Sower. When I started to look for more diverse authors in the spring of 2020, I was led down a path of black science fiction

Resistor: An Eerden Novel (Ellinor #1) by C.E. Clayton REVIEW

Thank you Book Sirens and C.E. Clayton for an eARC of this book! Ellinor Olyesha Rask is pronounced exactly how you would expect.  Okay, now that is out of the way. Ellinor Olyesha Rask is a great main character, and I want more and that’s that.  The scifi world building is so fun and cool. 

The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson REVIEW

Science fiction is slowly creeping its way to one of my favorite genres. The reason is because of stories like The Space Between Worlds. It is female driven, diverse, and full of character. The science is cool, but it doesn’t bog down the plot and character development like in classic science fiction.  To visit other

Chaos Reigning by Jessie Mihalik REVIEW

Chaos Reigning is the third and final book in the Consortium Rebellion Trilogy, a series of romance books that take place in space. I wish there were more! I love that the characters in each book do more than have a romance plot, but have real stakes and issues that have nothing to do with

May Wrap Up 2020

This month I have had a wide variety of reads! I can’t believe how much my reading has expanded since joining bookstagram 11 months ago! This month I read eight books that were in five different genres! Below are all my May reads! Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory McGuire: This book was not

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins SPOILER FREE REVIEW

Suzanne Collins has done it again. She has brought the world of Panem back to the page, and I loved it.  I was concerned about Coriolanus Snow as a main character, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I ended up liking it. Coriolanus is a young man who is grasping at the remains

Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson: A First Look Review

1000 years is a long nap.  I loved this first look. There are so many interesting and fun aspects of this book that reeled me in.  Andra is asleep in a pod, headed through space with her family to a new planet called Holymoth. But when she wakes up, she is not where she expected.