Tag: book review
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Comparing and Contrasting “The Dead Romantics” and “Book Lovers”
Ashley Poston’s The Dead Romantics and Emily Henry’s Book Lovers are contemporary romance novels, both released in 2022. I happened upon The Dead Romantics at Barnes and Noble just after it was released. Poston’s novel hooked me with a quick, couldn’t-be-more-than-500 words prologue, where the narrator talks about hiding their fan fiction in the baseboards…
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“Winter’s Orbit” by Everina Maxwell
🪐 In Everina Maxell’s 2021 debut novel, Winter’s Orbit, Prince Kiem, the black sheep of the Empire’s royal family, is married off to Count Jainan, a widower and political representative of his planet, in order to stabilize interplanetary treaties. As they navigate the ups and downs of their forced together-ness and unpeel the layers of…
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My 2022 Reading Awards
📚 It’s the last week of 2022, so I thought I’d share a few superlatives and thoughts about some of my favorite reads this year. The Critically Acclaimed Fave: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin I feel like everyone has talked about this book, and by everyone, I specifically mean John Green on…
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