This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she's been obsessively reading and re-reading [...]
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me by Ilona Andrews When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she's been obsessively reading and re-reading [...]
This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me When Maggie wakes up cold, filthy, and naked in a gutter, it doesn't take her long to recognize Kair Toren, a city she knows intimately from the pages of the famously unfinished dark fantasy series she's been obsessively reading and re-reading while waiting years [...]
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don't know how [...]
by Else (This is the sixth installment in an ongoing series. You can find all previous parts here.) Guess who's back, back again? Else's back, with another Malazan reread blog post. It is time to talk about The Bonehunters, part 6 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen. We're back [...]
Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert When did feminism lose its way? Sophie Gilbert provides one answer, identifying an inflection point in the late 1990s and early 2000s when the energy of third-wave and “riot girl” feminism collapsed into a regressive period of hyper-objectification, sexualization, and infantilization. Gilbert mines the darker [...]
In Ascension by Martin MacInnes Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic [...]
High-Rise - J.G. Ballard When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on "enemy" floors. In this visionary tale, human society slips into violent reverse as once-peaceful residents, driven by primal urges, re-create a world ruled [...]
by Else (This is the fifth installment in an ongoing series. You can find the first four parts here.) It is time to tackle the beast that is Midnight Tides, which once again throws us into the deep end. It starts in a previously unknown part of the world with [...]
Under The Oak Tree by Suji Kim Lady Maximilian is the daughter of the powerful Duke Croyso, but she is rarely allowed outside her family’s sprawling castle for fear that her stutter will tarnish their noble name. When she is forced to marry Sir Riftan, a lowborn knight caught in [...]
