I love murder mysteries & history. Preferably in the same book.
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Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019.
Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, …
Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1837. Boston, 2019.
Three young women, their bodies …
Very gripping horror novel whose premise is sorta mundane but somehow interesting in the narration. Couldn't put it down. The ending was kinda lame IMHO but nonetheless I couldn't stop reading it.
Excellent excellent book about how Enslaved people fought their way to freedom while gathering allies among white people to their cause. An interesting parallel I see is that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 kinda hastened the Civil War because the white public was NOT HAVING IT. The politicians, rich people & police of course sided with the enslavers. I am noticing a parallel to what is occurring today.
"Sir – I have left you, not to return…No longer yours, John S. Jacob" a letter from an enslaved person to the person tormenting him.
The thing that strikes me the MOST on reading some of the earlier chapters is that WHITE PEOPLE WERE HELPING with abolition for a long time! The author describes the dangerous escape of one of the enslaved people who was met by 2 white people in a boat in NYC and who protected him when the people from his ship tried to take him back.
A white sailor was fined a year's salary + jail because he was distributing one of the banned books that extols the enslaved to revolt.
So excited to read this from Marcus Rediker! I read his book about pirates and it was EYE OPENING. Closer to piracy depicted in Our Flag Means Death (RIP), than other description of pirates.
Absolutely loved this thriller. There is not a lot of mystery here but really great atmosphere of the people who do dancing & sex work in Atlanta. There is also a sexual assault scene that kinda comes out of nowhere. It's 2025, publishes should be putting content warning in front.
February, 1940. In San Francisco's Chinatown, fireworks explode as the city celebrates Chinese New Year …
First time hearing about Rice bowl parties to raise money to aid the Chinese suffering under the Japanese conquest in WW 2.
When Elān trapped a salmon-stealing raven in his cupboard, he never expected it would hold …
I couldn't put it down.
When Elān trapped a salmon-stealing raven in his cupboard, he never expected it would hold …
Absolutely STUNNING epic about a young boy who accidentally becomes responsible for the fate of his tribe. You can read this as an allegory to the white invasion of the Turtle island AND as a better epic than Lord of the Rings. The only frustration I have is, for these matrilineal tribes there are so few women characters in this story. Go READ!
Temple Baker knows that evil runs in her blood. Her father is the North Point …
Temple Baker knows that evil runs in her blood. Her father is the North Point …
Temple Baker knows that evil runs in her blood. Her father is the North Point …
Absolutely thrilling slasher. Do not read in the dark!! The daughter of a serial-killer revisits her home while being a student counselor to this horror camp for Black queer teens to figure out if her mother was really killed by her father. I LOVE how uplifting this book is which is a weird thing to say about a slasher. But it truly is.
Also, the content alert says there is description of transphobia but I didn't notice any. Entirely possible it escaped me, but I also thought how cool it is that this book normalizes being queer & not having to deal with the usual fears of racism & queer-phobia.
I also loved how kick-ass cool the protagonist is and the other main characters. Finally, give me a protagonist who doesn't do silly & wild things again and again to move the plot forward. This protagonist has Plan A, Plan …
Absolutely thrilling slasher. Do not read in the dark!! The daughter of a serial-killer revisits her home while being a student counselor to this horror camp for Black queer teens to figure out if her mother was really killed by her father. I LOVE how uplifting this book is which is a weird thing to say about a slasher. But it truly is.
Also, the content alert says there is description of transphobia but I didn't notice any. Entirely possible it escaped me, but I also thought how cool it is that this book normalizes being queer & not having to deal with the usual fears of racism & queer-phobia.
I also loved how kick-ass cool the protagonist is and the other main characters. Finally, give me a protagonist who doesn't do silly & wild things again and again to move the plot forward. This protagonist has Plan A, Plan B AND Plan C figured out. YES.
If you lock me in a room and tell me I have to criticize something about this book, then I will tell you, I wish we had more of a backstory to the main villain. I guess the lack of backstory helps with the surprise but I wish we had more of a story there.
Run to buy this book or place a hold in your library systems if you like slasher horror!!
It’s watching.
Liz Rocher is coming home . . . reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn’t exactly have fond …
In the fall of 1962, twenty-seven-year-old Jemma Barker is desperate to escape her life in Chicago—and the spirits she has …
