Author Bethany C. Morrow is known for her ability to weave current and timely themes with speculative and fantastic elements seamlessly, first in Mem and now in A Song Below Water, a book about Black sirens, the power of Black…
Book Review: A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Morrow
Set in a world much like ours, but pulsing with magic, Bethany C. Morrow’s A Song Below Water is a heady mix of mythos, power, and activism. Written as only the best fantasies can be, Morrow’s spellbinding novel takes some…
Book Review: We Are the Wildcats by Siobhan Vivian
Siobhan Vivian is a longtime favorite author of mine. She’s a fierce champion of teenage girls, she’s effortlessly cool, and oh, right, she’s BFFs with Jenny Han. When Vivian released Stay Sweet in 2018, an ice-cream-cone sweet love letter to…
Book Review: Grown-Up Pose by Sonya Lalli
Anusha Desai is starting over. Though she is thirty years old, partially still married, and the mother to an active five-year-old, Anu feels like her life is just beginning. Married in her early twenties to Neil, her first serious boyfriend,…
Book Review: How to Build a Heart by Maria Padian
How to Build a Heart, author Maria Padian’s follow-up to Wrecked, explores the life of Izzy Crawford, a teen who seems to have it all—until the carefully separated sides of her life begin to overlap, forcing her to confront not…
Thirty Truths About Twenty-One Truths About Love by Matthew Dicks
Seven things to know about Twenty-One Truths About Love: It’s a novel written entirely in lists (and, taking a cue from author Matthew Dicks, this review will follow suit). Love is in the title, so you already know to get…
