Book Review
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Meandering Monsters: A Yume Book Review
For the first time, I decided to go against Goodreads reviews and trust my gut. Lo and behold, it was wrong. Considering my own tendency…
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Why Every Fantasy Lover Needs to Read the Green Bone Saga
Jade City is a gripping Godfather-esque saga of intergenerational blood feuds, vicious politics, magic, and kungfu. The Kaul family is one of two crime syndicates…
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Lonesome no More!
Different writers speak to different people. There can be lots of writers that you like, and lots that you don’t. But I think for each…
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Disconnected Tales: Contrasting Ken Liu’s Original and Translated Works
While I was growing up, the Chinese realm of my life was wholly separate from the English one. The two only overlapped when I struggled…
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Navigating A Sea of Literature With Sjon’s “From The Mouth Of The Whale”
“Here is another manifestation of insanity: people are united in actions that they would neither have known how to do nor dreamed of doing until…
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Fairy Tales and Flesh Eaters: A Closer Look At Rosamund Hodge’s Crimson Bound
“I don’t recall hearing that any of the damned were content.” “They’re content to stay in their sins.” Young adult fiction is one genre that…
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The Bureaucracy of the Supernatural: A Review of Neil Smith’s “Boo”
Warning: Spoilers ahead! “The facts of America do not apply here. The fact is that an unplugged lamp should not turn on… the fact is…
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Setting Sail: “Magonia” Book Review
Book spoilers ahead, beware! Described as Neil Gaiman’s Stardust meets John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, Magonia tells the story of almost-sixteen-year-old Aza Ray…
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