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Book Review – Within These Walls
What a fun, sensory ride this was! “Within These Walls” was an audiobook listen for me, as I’m currently underwater with life and finding the time to sit down to read has been tough. Still, the rich narration only helped to enhance the vision Ania Ahlborn crafts throughout the novel. Lucas, a true crime writer…
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Book Review – Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
Rarely do I come across a work that screams, “YOU WILL LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT ME,” the way Freshwater shouted from the proverbial book stacks. It’s taken me awhile to get to this review, simply because I found the book so indescribably powerful. It’s fierce, ferocious, ethereal, gritty, and magical–all at once. Ada, a troubled Nigerian…
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Book Review – I Want the Stars
Science Fiction has a way of (in)forming our future reality, and “I Want the Stars” is no exception. Here, Tom Purdom has conceptualized a world that in the 1960s would have seemed unimaginable except among the rebels, one where humanity has transcended war, monogamy, and stigma around mental health care. However, this brilliant utopia and…
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Deconstructing Design: Ground Control
Welcome to my newest series in which I document what the hell I was thinking when I designed a thing, whether that be a book cover, a book trailer, or just a passage in something I’ve written. I’m a chronic overthinker, so you can rest assured that many thoughts went into the construction. So let’s…
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Wild Things Will Roam by K.M. West: ARC Book Review
Originally posted on Sarah Lillian Books: Good hello, lovelies! Happy Monday! I hope you have a wonderful day. Happy International Women’s Day! I’ve been having a lot of fun with reading lately! I’m having a lot of fun with different genres and formats. A few people have reached out to read and review books, which…
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Book Review – What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky
“The problem with those that don’t know real power is that they do not know real power.” – Volcano What a powerful collection! In “What Happens When a Man Falls from the Sky,” Leslie Nneka Arimah offers us stories that feel more like parables–a collection which weaves the mundane with the fantastical so fluidly that…
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Book Review – You Were Never Really Here
A former Marine and ex-FBI agent, Joe has seen one too many crime scenes and known too much trauma, and not just in his professional life. Solitary and haunted, he prefers to be invisible. He doesn’t allow himself friends or lovers and makes a living rescuing young girls from the deadly clutches of the sex…
Illegibly K.M. West 