• The Green Bone Saga: Organized crime meets fantasy?

    UGH. Again, I’ve arrived at the end of an amazing series. It’s such a bittersweet feeling. Fonda Lee’s Green Bone Saga was incredible and I highly recommend it. The story is a high stakes rollercoaster with themes of tradition, organized crime, dysfunctional family dynamics, and light fantasy elements all wrapped into one. There are some

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  • Dark Matter and the choices that damn us

    I know I’m a little late to this party but, Dark Matter is a science fiction masterpiece. This story unpacks the Many Worlds Interpretation in quantum mechanics: what if every choice you make triggers a reality in which you chose the opposite, and those outcomes are physically realized in alternate realities? Jason, the protagonist in

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  • 📚 Come Read With Me: My 2026 TBR

    2025 was a great year! New releases, long-overdue backlist discoveries, and a few books that really touched me emotionally. Here’s what’s currently sitting on my TBR for 2026. Some are continuations, some are finally-I’ll-get-to-it promises, I’m hoping some will emotionally destroy me! We’ll see. 🔥 Continuing Series I’m Locked Into ⚔️ Epic Fantasy Commitments 🩸

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  • Best of 2025

    Best of 2025

    I read a lot of books in 2025 (92). Some were good, some bad, some just okay. A few just voluntary junk food. But here’s a list of some serious sci-fi, fantasy stand-outs. A few of these were new and a few old, but all great picks to check out in 2026 if you haven’t

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  • 🌋 The Broken Earth Trilogy left me struck

    Spoiler free review Themes: motherhood as strength, oppression and rebellion, environmental apocalypse, unconventional love, black voices- black characters “Let’s start with the end of the world, why don’t we? Get it over with and move onto more interesting things.” This story (clearly) takes place at the end of the world as we know it. It

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