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The Kingman family did not die with whimpers. History was shaped by our births and deaths, and whether I liked it or not, I would be no exception. Kingdom of Liars gives me campy murder mystery vibes. The story opens with a prologue, in which Michael Kingman is on trial for killing the king—ten years after his father was executed for killing the crown prince, Davey Hollow. Michael tells himself, and thus the reader, that he only ever did what he believed was necessary, and he holds his ... Read More about The Kingdom of Liars: Murder Mystery Set in a Fantasy World

Jiyoung was starting to feel like a stranger to Daehyun. After all this time—the stories they shared, as countless as raindrops, the caresses as soft and gentle as snowflakes, and the beautiful daughter who took after them both—his wife of three years, whom he married after two years of passionate romance, felt like someone else. A thirty-something-year-old "millennial everywoman," Kim Jiyoung has recently left her white-color desk job in order to care for her newborn daughter. It seems like ... Read More about This Ordinary Heroine’s Life Tells the Story of Millions: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

I was inspired to create this post by Petrik's Top 15 Books of the Year So Far post over at Novel Notions. Between January 1 and June 30, I read 53 books. For this list, I picked up my top eleven reads. I know it's an odd number, but I couldn't narrow it down to ten, and I didn't feel like I could make a top fifteen list. How I made this list Rereads are excluded.I included one book per author to provide coverage for more authors.Both new releases and older books are featured (as long ... Read More about Best I’ve Read in 2023 So Far

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains . . . " What if Sherlock Holmes were an angel? What if he and and Dr. Watson were both hiding secrets that make living in an alternate 1880s London difficult? In an alternate 1880s London, angels inhabit every public building, and paranormal creatures—including vampires, werewolves, and hellhounds—share the streets with humans in a tenuous truce. There is a mythos built around angels and other paranormal creatures, reminiscent but ... Read More about The Angel of the Crows: A Sherlock Holmes Wingfic Set in an Alternate 1880s London

As I mentioned in "12 Fantasy Books by Black Authors," I don’t think reading books by black authors, or any POC authors, should be a trend. Being a POC isn’t a genre, and I believe in promoting diverse books year round. But I realize that some of us may not know where to start looking for books to read. As a bookish community, we can support black authors by buying, reading, and sharing about their works. We can also post reviews on our social media platforms, Goodreads, and retail sites. ... Read More about 12 Science Fiction Books by Black Authors

As a gift-less member of one of the lower castes, Tau is destined to fight and die as fodder in the war his people, the Omehi, have been fighting against the hedenni for almost two hundred years. To increase Tau's chances of survival, his father has been teaching him from a young age to fight, but Tau plans to outwit his fate and live a comfortable life with his love. Only, before he can carry out his plan, he loses the people closest to him. To gain the power and status needed to carry out his ... Read More about The Rage of Dragons: A Binge-Worthy Fantasy Debut

I hesitated over publishing this post because I don't think reading books by black authors, or any POC authors, should be a trend. Being a POC isn't a genre, and I believe in promoting diverse books year round. But I realize that some people may be like me and not know where to start looking for books to read. (It took hours of research for me to compile a list of science fiction and fantasy books by black authors. In the process, I learned about many books that I never knew existed.) As a ... Read More about Black Lives Matter: 12 Fantasy Books by Black Authors

Parachutes follows the lives of two teenage girls. Claire Wang is an international student from an affluent family in Shanghai, China. Despite her initial misgivings about finishing high school in the U.S., she quickly makes friends with other "parachutes" (teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the US while their wealthy parents remain in Asia), attracts the attention of the most eligible parachute, and sets out to embrace her newfound freedom. Dani De La Cruz, Claire's ... Read More about On Silence and Speaking Up: Parachutes

We are the stepdaughters. We are the girls who become wolves because no one will feed us like lambs. We are the girls in the stories, and the world is ours. At the end of The Beholder (book one), Selah learned about her crew's secret mission to transport weapons to the rebels fighting against the brutal regime of the tsarytsya. As a result, she was forced to leave behind her true love, Prince Torden of Norway—and she's angry. She's angry that the people she trusted lied to her. She's angry ... Read More about Discovering Sisterhood & Our Own Stories: The Beholder