TW: This review and book deal with slavery and intergenerational trauma, as pertaining to the Black American experience. So I wasn’t totally sold on the Riordanverse books,…… Read more “The Gremlin’s Library: Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky by Kwame Mbalia”
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The Gremlin’s Library: Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
This book and review deal with cancer, abortion, iffy consent re: surgical procedures and manipulation/abuse. This is also a review with spoilers for the WHOLE book, including…… Read more “The Gremlin’s Library: Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey”
The Gremlin’s Library: The Weight Of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf
TW: This book and review deal with heavy mental illness themes as well as race riots & the severe violence involved. I’ve been involved in Book Twitter…… Read more “The Gremlin’s Library: The Weight Of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf”
The Gremlin’s Library: Gods of Jade and Shadow
Anybody who knows me knows that I am a SUCKER for mythology. Irish, Viking, Yoruba, West African… Anything with a mythic bent and a folkloric eye is…… Read more “The Gremlin’s Library: Gods of Jade and Shadow”
The Gremlin’s Library: The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante
TW: This book deals explicitly with homophobic violence, which I’ll be discussing below. Damn. Damn, this book wrecked me. I read The Grief Keeper as the group…… Read more “The Gremlin’s Library: The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante”
First Chapter Thoughts: Dragon Physician by Joyce Chng
One of the tropes that can go either tremendously well or terrifyingly badly in speculative fiction is the inverted gender role society; a matriarchy, usually oppressive, that…… Read more “First Chapter Thoughts: Dragon Physician by Joyce Chng”
The Gremlin’s Library: Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan
This book wasn’t quite what I expected – I knew the basic premise, but not much else – but I really enjoyed it. It’s hard for me…… Read more “The Gremlin’s Library: Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan”
