“The humans malfunctioned long before their habitat did.” The edges and boundaries of human experience and the possibilities beyond them are the things I like best in my science fiction. I found these in spades within The Collapsing Empire, along with humor alternately dry and caustic, characters I loved and…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s prompt was “characters you loved from books you didn’t”, but that doesn’t quite work for me, so I went with this alteration! Characters are at the heart of what I love about stories, and it’s…
2 Comments“Ivan is the perfect, deadly warrior, a man trained from childhood to be the ultimate protector to the Rios family. His focus on keeping her safe is intense–and a little intoxicating. When the threat of danger cracks his icy control, Maricela realizes she’s not the only one fighting against temptation.”…
Leave a CommentTop Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. I’m excited to start participating in it! The original prompt was about real-world countries, but I’ve given it a little twist that suits my favorites better. One trope I love is fictionalized but recognizable versions of other…
Leave a CommentI am a novice reader of the romance genre. I’d say I read one romance novel, on average, every year. I’d just never been hooked. Since the beginning of 2018, I’ve read seventeen romance novels. “Hooked” is the grossest understatement – I have been drowning myself in a beautiful universe…
Leave a CommentIn author Dhonielle Clayton’s debut solo novel, the line between the beautiful and the grotesque is sometimes stark and bright, and sometimes blurry and muddied. The Belles is set in a fictional kingdom called Orléans. Its name and its map – an archipelago with a large, curved main island –…
Leave a CommentAs with many, reading was very important to me as a child. Books were my escape from the world, and they helped me make sense of it once I returned. I know this is true, but I realized I’d never thought about what marks those books left on me. Thinking…
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