I love murder mysteries & history. Preferably in the same book.
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'Leena didn't believe in monsters until she saw Weavingshaw.'
The Saint of Silence trades coins for every sordid divulgence uttered …
'Leena didn't believe in monsters until she saw Weavingshaw.'
The Saint of Silence trades coins …
I was getting into this slow-burn romance fantasy but there is a twist in the end that makes me absolutely barf. It seems to be punching up but then it sorta stops doing that sadly. Wish the author didn't have all these pretenses about 'royal blood'.
Pasadena, 1903: Eighteen-year-old Ryunosuke “Ryui” Wada staggers off the boat from Yokohama, Japan, ready to …
Absolutely love Naomi Hirahara's books. Stunning as per usual. Was fascinating to learn about how Japanese caste system was abolished during the Meiji restoration (so the Emperor can tax the "outcastes") and yet how caste continues to persist in Japan and in Japanese American culture.
Also learned about how a Japanese American actor was one of the reigning queens of Hollywood silent movies pre-code! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuru_Aoki
Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death …
Started reading this book while spending the last 2 days with my dog. I wanted to be normal around her so she didn't get more anxious than she already was. This book was perfect as it was horrific which somehow made me forget the horror of future grief.
This is a book that is based on the potato famine in Ireland and how it was a genocide while also using that to advance the horror plot line featuring a haunted house. The author has gone through a lot of research and based some of the villains on real English nobility. There is a lot of parallels to Gaza in the way Israel has blocked aid and forced Gazans to starve.
It is not surprising to me that the Irish people have been one of the loudest white people to express solidarity with Palestinians.
Funnily enough, the author says she actually …
Started reading this book while spending the last 2 days with my dog. I wanted to be normal around her so she didn't get more anxious than she already was. This book was perfect as it was horrific which somehow made me forget the horror of future grief.
This is a book that is based on the potato famine in Ireland and how it was a genocide while also using that to advance the horror plot line featuring a haunted house. The author has gone through a lot of research and based some of the villains on real English nobility. There is a lot of parallels to Gaza in the way Israel has blocked aid and forced Gazans to starve.
It is not surprising to me that the Irish people have been one of the loudest white people to express solidarity with Palestinians.
Funnily enough, the author says she actually never learned much about the famine in Ireland and only when she did a historical studies major in USA did she learn of the full depravity of the English nobility.
Amidst the devastation of Ireland’s Great Famine, a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position …
ndiana Jones meets Hidden Figures in this brand-new stand-alone historical fantasy set in the world …
Loving this fantasy meets Hidden Figures where we discover the family of Cynthia Rhodes who weave magic & get together to stop some shady magical villains.
City of Others is a contemporary fantasy set in Singapore, following a civil servant, Benjamin …
Ultimately, I would say this book was not as exciting as the initial premise was. One of the frustrating aspects of this book is that one of the villains happens to be an Indian man who was completely discriminated against and now this Chinese male protagonist says "I have to believe we are better than that". Come on now.
This is the problem with reading books even by well-meaning writers from the oppressor class, it's almost good but then the gap exposes the privilege making it less than satisfying to read. I will read the sequel of course but knowing it will not be without its racist elements will give me pause.
City of Others is a contemporary fantasy set in Singapore, following a civil servant, Benjamin …
Ugh, this book is as good as reviews said it would be. I hate that it is making me nostalgic for a Singapore that does not exist for people with my skin color.
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.