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Tag: Book Review

April 16, 2021April 17, 2021 Mallen Clifton Book Reviews

Tumbling Down the Rabbit Hole: Review of Red Pill by Hari Kunzru

Its characters and events, while sinister, are plausible: an uncomfortable mirror to our own world.

April 12, 2021April 10, 2021 Alex Jiménez Book Reviews

‘You’ Series Loses Original Heart in Third Installment: Review of You Love Me by Caroline Kepnes

As per usual, Kepnes pulls out all the stops with bottomless cliffhangers and narrative-shaking revelations.

March 19, 2021March 19, 2021 Sukhmony Brar Book Reviews

To Death and Back: Review of Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz

Dantiel W. Moniz’s debut story collection, Milk Blood Heat, pulsates with the everyday horrors of being alive.

January 18, 2021January 14, 2021 Noah Hernandez Book Reviews

The Reader’s Paradise: Review of The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

Morgenstern’s work is a novel for the book lovers and the story fanatics. It is the reader’s paradise, filled with reading nooks, secret libraries, mysterious books, and attractive storytellers.

January 11, 2021January 10, 2021 Noah Hernandez Book Reviews

Through Twists and Timelines: Review of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

Stuart Turton’s debut novel, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, is a book filled with surprises.

November 23, 2020November 22, 2020 Mallen Clifton Book Reviews, Magazine

Stars and Starts: Review of Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

The book spins a vibrating tension between silken, lyrical imagery, and anxiety-inducing plot.

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Regina Lim Book Reviews

Learning to Love Yourself: Review of Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory by Raphael Bob-Waksberg

These stories provide incisive and cutting looks into being alone in the world and grieving lost relationships.

November 2, 2020October 31, 2020 Regina Lim Book Reviews

Glittery and Gritty: Review of Pass with Care: Memoirs by Cooper Lee Bombardier

At the heart of the memoir are Bombardier’s negotiations with his gender presentation and identity throughout the years and the very idea of the “trans memoir.”

October 26, 2020November 11, 2020 Regina Lim Book Reviews

Everyday Fairytales: Review of Bluebeard’s First Wife by Seong-nan Ha, translated by Janet Hong

In Bluebeard’s First Wife, Ha explores big cities and small rural towns where ambition, familial responsibilities, and expectations of marriage coalesce to reveal hidden sides to neighbors, wives, and husbands.

October 2, 2020October 31, 2020 Lillian Marsh Book Reviews

The Ugly Side of Healing: Review of Kate Elizabeth Russell’s My Dark Vanessa

But My Dark Vanessa is not so much a retelling as it is an echo of Lolita, giving a voice to young victims like Dolores Haze who are trapped and abused by those wielding authority over them.

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