Elana K. Arnold spins fairy tale into fact with her debut Red Hood, a Little Red Riding Hood, retelling that cuts to the bone. Prom night: a long-awaited time for dancing, drinking, and for 16-year-old Bisou, wolf slaying. On the…
Book Review: Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater
If you dream a fiction and wake up with that fiction in your hands, it becomes fact. And for Maggie Steifvater’s Call Down the Hawk, such a sentiment rings especially true for her protagonists, who dwell in dreams that bleed…
Book Review: The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee
As a Chinese girl in the South, Jo Kuan has experienced a great deal of injustices: getting fired from jobs without reason; struggling to find work; sitting in the back rows of the streetcar; and most recently, working as a…
Book Review: Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim
Much like how her protagonist spins the dawn, Elizabeth Lim spins an equally enchanting tale in her magical debut. Aptly described as a cross between Mulan and Project Runway, Spin the Dawn marries magic and couture, with a stitch of…
Book Review: Breaking Bailey by Anonymous
A gripping addition to the Anonymous Diaries, Breaking Bailey highlights the heartrending realities of addiction and the repercussions of getting mixed up with the wrong people. After her mother’s death and her father’s hasty remarriage, Bailey is shipped off to…
Book Review: The Beholder by Anna Bright
In Anna Bright’s The Beholder, “once upon a time begins on nights like tonight,” nights of music and revelry and hopeful expectation. But for Selah, those fairy tale notions of happily ever after come crumbling down after she’s rejected by…