Book Review: The Gilda Stories: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition, Jewelle...
A subversive and exhilarating read! (Full disclosure: I received a free book for review from the publisher. Trigger warning for violence, including rape.) “Why do you say others may kill and we must...
View ArticleBook Review: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race, Jesmyn...
You need to read this book. (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley.) [W]e are writing an epic wherein black lives carry worth, wherein black boys can walk to...
View ArticleBook Review: Everfair, Nisi Shawl (2016)
Fascinating Idea, So-So Execution (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley.) Ever fair, ever fair my home; Ever fair land, so sweet— Ever are you calling home...
View ArticleBook Review: The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead (2016)
Harrowing and heartbreaking — and brimming with humanity. (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC though Edelweiss. Trigger warning for violence, including slavery and rape, and offensive...
View ArticleBook Review: ‘All the Real Indians Died Off’: And 20 Other Myths About Native...
Belongs in high school libraries everywhere. (Full disclosure: I received an electronic ARC for review through Edelweiss.) Non-Natives thus position themselves, either wittingly or unwittingly, as...
View ArticleBook Review: The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved,...
A difficult yet necessary read. (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through Edelweiss. Trigger warning for violence related to slavery, including racism and rape.) This book...
View ArticleBook Review: Wintersong, S. Jae-Jones (2017)
“Such sensuous enjoyment.” (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through Netgalley.) I surveyed my kingdom. Chaos. Cruelty. Abandon. I had always been holding back. Always been...
View ArticleBook Review: Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Damian Duffy and John...
Octavia E. Butler Gets the Graphic Novel Treatment (Finally!) (Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. Trigger warning for violence, including rape.)...
View ArticleBook Review: Three-Fifths a Man: A Graphic History of the African American...
Essential Reading (Full disclosure: I received a free ARC for review from the publisher, Hill & Wang.) – 4.5 stars – This is actually the second graphic novel by Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colón that...
View ArticleBook Review: Black Genealogy: Poems by Kiki Petrosino and Lauren Haldeman (2017)
A haunting cry across the chasms of time and injustice. (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through Edelweiss.) You want to know who owned us & where. But when you type,...
View ArticleBook Review: Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (2018)
This is the CONFEDERATE we need and deserve. (Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through Edelweiss. Trigger warning for racism and misogyny, including sexual violence.) The...
View ArticleBook Review: Atar Gull (Long Courrier) by Fabien Nury & Brüno (2016)
Revenge is a dish best served cold. Like, glacially so. (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for racist violence, including rape.) Based on a novel...
View ArticleBook Review: Bald Knobber by Robert Sergel (2018)
Not so much about the Bald Knobbers as a struggling middle-schooler. (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Edelweiss.) Named for the bald knob summit on which the group formed,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Black God’s Drums by P. Djèlí Clark (2018)
This is the alt history Confederacy story you’re looking for. (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for racism.) The magic of those old Afrikin gods...
View ArticleBook Review: A Bound Woman Is a Dangerous Thing by DaMaris B. Hill (2019)
“How many ways did you write women? How many ways did you right women?” (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for violence against women, including...
View ArticleBook Review: Anarcha Speaks: A History in Poems by Dominique Christina (2019)
“fine. new hell, whatever.” (Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this book for review through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. Trigger warning for violence inflicted on black bodies,...
View ArticleBook Review: This Land is My Land: A Graphic History of Big Dreams,...
I want to go where the vegan lesbians are. (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through NetGalley. Trigger warning for sexual violence against women and children.) A community founded...
View ArticleBook Review: Sparrowhawk (Sparrowhawk #1-5) by Delilah S. Dawson & Matias...
It’s an exaggerated shoulder shrug from me… (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through NetGalley.) Artemisia – “Art” for short – is the illegitimate daughter of a British Naval...
View ArticleBook Review: Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden (2019)
Daidi’s bells! What a weird, wickedly funny, and ultimately empathetic ride. (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through Netgalley. Trigger warning for slavery, mass murder, rape, and...
View ArticleBook Review: The Companions by Katie M. Flynn (2020)
A haunting glimpse into one possible future. (Full disclosure: I received a free e-ARC for review through NetGalley.) Where I live now is a blank space. I imagine you live somewhere similar. I can...
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