

Review: Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat (Spoiler-Free)
Look, I don't make the rules. Epistolary novels just hit. I saw a whole lot of hubbub in other reviews saying that an epistolary story...
★★★★-4
Apr 11, 2024


Review: No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (Spoiler-Free)
Am I what they call an egoist? Or am I the opposite, a man of excessively weak spirit? I really don't know myself, but since I seem in...
★★★★-4.5
Apr 8, 2024


Review: Moriarty the Patriot, Vol. 3 by Ryōsuke Takeuchi (Spoiler-Free)
This has been my least favorite of the series so far, but it's still Sherlock and Moriarty, so how bad could it be? The first half of...
★★★-3
Apr 8, 2024


Review: The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo (Spoiler-Free)
I studied abroad in Spain and my favorite author wrote a book set in Madrid. This is my Roman Empire. I've known about this book for over...
★★★-3.5
Apr 6, 2024


Review: Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo (Spoiler Alert)
Our bodies are food for worms. Why should our souls not be made meals too? This was one hell of a sequel. See what I did there?...
★★★★-4
Mar 26, 2024


Review: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry (Spoiler-Free)
We are just looking at each other. There are no hard edges to grab hold of, no distinct markers on this moment's beginning or end,...
★★★★-4.5
Feb 19, 2024


Review: Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Spoiler-Free, re-read)
what rock was i living under when i gave this four stars 'Look around. What do you see? People in costumes, horns, fake jewels, adorning themselves in tiny layers of illusion. They stand up straighter, suck in their stomachs, say things they don't mean, indulge in flattery. They commit a thousand small acts of deception, lying to each other, lying to themselves, drinking to the point of delusion to make it easier. This is a night of compacts, between the seers and the seen, a
★★★★★-5
Feb 9, 2024


Review: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (Spoiler-Free)
Blake Crouch did the multiverse before the multiverse was cool. I'm a sucker for a sci-fi thriller written by a mediocre white man and...
★★★★-4
Jan 20, 2024


Review: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (Spoiler-Free)
I loved the layered depiction of grief in this story, but unfortunately was not gripped by the plot. I think for me, this book tried to...
★★★-3
Jan 18, 2024


Review: Out There by Kate Folk (Spoiler-Free)
I loved the writing throughout this entire collection and was drawn in by every single premise. The execution of some of the stories...
★★★-3.5
Jan 12, 2024
























