Publisher: Tor

Audiobook Reviews: Spindle Splintered & Mirror Mended

Audiobook Reviews: Spindle Splintered & Mirror Mended
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 16, 2023 | 0 Comments

I actually read this book as an ARC before it came out and just….never got around to reviewing it. Oops. This book is a super fun and creative retelling of Sleeping Beauty, but with some fierce feminist vibes! There’s plenty of subverted tropes and gender roles in this book. Gay princesses, badass princesses, masculine princesses, princesses saving themselves or denying the prince in favor of choosing their own path…oh, and my favorite: waking up a princess with a kiss doesn’t […]

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Mini Audio Reviews: Together We Burn, Luminaries, Princess of Souls

Mini Audio Reviews: Together We Burn, Luminaries, Princess of Souls
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on June 2, 2023 | 0 Comments

While this book didn’t necessarily stick with me, the concept was awesome! DRAGONADORS!! Like matadors, but with dragons! Fucking awesome, dude. It was unlike anything I’ve ever read before! I adored the dragon parts of this story and appreciated the Spanish culture, but the emotion was just not there for me. I would have liked to have connected to the characters and the story much more than I did. Especially considering there were dragons! The romance didn’t do it for […]

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Audiobook Review: In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune

Audiobook Review: In the Lives of Puppets by T.J. Klune
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on May 22, 2023 | 0 Comments

After Cerulean Sea, I would have picked this up regardless (even though I wasn’t a huge fan of Under the Whispering Door); but at YALLfest I saw him on a panel where he talked about the book and said it had a sentient Roomba with anxiety. And I KNEW I needed it asap! Said Roomba and the other sidekick robot, Nurse Ratched, were by far my favorite part about this book! Rambo the vacuum was adorably anxious and needy, which […]

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Audiobook Review: Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder

Audiobook Review: Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on May 15, 2023 | 1 Comment

What.   T h e.   F U C K.   did I just read?!   I don’t even know how to properly rate this book. This was 10/10 the weirdest, most disturbing book I’ve ever read in my life. It started off fairly normal – a pandemic sweeps across the nation and changes life as everyone knows it (much like COVID) – but then shit starts getting certifiably fucked. It was morbidly fascinating, though (in the way a train […]

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Review: The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown

Review: The Scourge Between Stars by Ness Brown
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on May 1, 2023 | 0 Comments

Don’t open the door. Okay, this was awesome!! I love pretty much anything set in space, but space horror is about my favorite sub-genre (maybe tied with Japanese fantasy) and it’s SO hard to find good ones. (Or any in general – give me recs!!) This book gave me major Alien vibes, and Jack is totally the new Ripley. It even had an enigmatic android sidekick, Watson. I freaking loooved Watson! It/she was by far my favorite character. She reminded […]

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ARC Review: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

ARC Review: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
Posted by Jessi (Geo) on March 27, 2023 | 0 Comments

This is a hard book to review for me. I don’t have a whole lot to say about this book, because overall it was just okay. The concept was really cool, but nothing about it really stood out for me and it was a pretty mediocre space opera. I think a lot of people will love this, but for someone who reads a lot of science fiction it might feel a bit generic. The main thing I have to comment […]

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