Ultimate Sci-Fi Recommendations (An Interactive Recommendation Tool)

Are you ready, baby goats (kids)? Because you better grab your blankies because hoo, do I have a story for you. (But, if you just want the recommendations, follow the twitter thread here till you reach a tweet with a graphic & your book recommendation in it!) In anticipation of May the Fourth, I planned …

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo

The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic is a short story anthology by Leigh Bardugo, author of the wildly popular Six of Crows and Grisha series. In this anthology, she dives back into the beloved universe to bring the readers six new tales of dark, spell-binding creatures and people in this magical, Russian-inspired world. …

DRC: S.T.A.G.S. by M.A. Bennett

4 stars Scholarship student Greer MacDonald and her two friends, fellow outcasts, are invited to a weekend with the elites of their private school in England. Settling into sixth term has been hard, especially with the other privileged students, but this mysterious invitation might change everything for Greer and her friends. Or maybe not. At …

ARC: The Last Girl on Earth by Alexandra Blogier

1.5 stars Li is the last human girl on Earth after the aliens, who used to be friendly, decided the humans were killing the Earth and in turn, decided to kill the humans. These aliens look like Li except for their superior minds and bodies and the gills on the sides of their neck. Her …

ARC: Love, Hate & Other Filters by Samira Ahmed

5 stars Love, Hate & Other Filters is an #OwnVoices debut about an Indian-American Muslim teen who both forges her own path in life as well as confronts Islamophobia. Maya Aziz wants to go to film school in New York City and pursue her dream boy, not attend a college close to home and be …

ARC: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

5 stars I know now why Holly Black is called the Queen of Faerie. I've never read any of her work before (not even The Spiderwick Chronicles) and so this was a brand new experience for me. Luckily, it was a very awesome brand new experience. When she was seven years old, Jude's parents were murdered …