Apr 3, 20212 min read
Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Synopsis "It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the...
Mar 6, 20212 min read
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Synopsis "Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave...
Nov 28, 20202 min read
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Synopsis "Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about...
Nov 6, 20202 min read
The Obelisk Gate (The Broken Earth #2) by N.K. Jemisin
Synopsis "This is the way the world ends... for the last time. The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long...
Oct 30, 20202 min read
The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Synopsis "Every city has a soul. Some are as ancient as myths, and others are as new and destructive as children. New York City? She's...
Oct 8, 20202 min read
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
"After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A...
Sep 17, 20202 min read
Once Ghosted, Twice Shy (Reluctant Royals #2.5) by Alyssa Cole
"While her boss the prince was busy wooing his betrothed, Likotsi had her own love affair after swiping right on a dating app. But her...
Sep 12, 20202 min read
Lore & Lust (Book #1) by Karla Nikole
"Haruka Hirano is alive, but not quite living. Surviving but not thriving. As an elite purebred vampire in the twenty-first century, he...
Sep 9, 20202 min read
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jemisin
"This is the way the world ends. Again. Three terrible things happen in a single day. Essun, a woman living an ordinary life in a small...
Sep 4, 20202 min read
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
"Widespread reporting on aspects of white supremacy--from police brutality to the mass incarceration of African Americans--have made it...