The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig My rating: 4 of 5 stars Woo! This review is finally out! Check out this review and others on Around the World in 80 Books! I loved this book! It combines many of my favorite things about fantasy/sci-fi. It’s an adventure above all and it’s a history lesson … More REVIEW: The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig
Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger My rating: 4 of 5 stars This review originally appeared on Around the World in 80 Books! *A galley of this book was provided by the publisher for an honest review.* Bailey Chen is all of us: just graduated, drowning in student loans, looking for the … More REVIEW: Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Krueger
Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova My rating: 4 of 5 stars This review originally appeared on Around the World in 80 Books! *An ARC was provided by the publisher via NetGalley for an honest review.* Why did I read this so early!? I can’t talk about it with anyone! I love that this book took … More REVIEW: Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova
January 2015 I’m a supporter of We Need Diverse Books, a campaign that gained traction in 2014 by highlighting publisher’s failings in publishing and supporting diversity in books and the workplace. It has not gone unnoticed that this is one of the main changes that I foresee happening in the publishing industry. Embracing diversity, reading broadly, these … More We Need Diverse Books 2015 Pledge
Dearest readers, I’ve had a fantastic couple of weeks that I would like to share with you! Part 1 is about Women of Letters, Season 2 that was hosted at Joe’s at The Public on October 7, 2015. Part 2 is about my weekend at New York Comic Con a few days later, October 9-11! … More Let’s Catch Up (Part 2): New York Comic Con #NYCC 2015!
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By Heather A. 5 out of 5 stars ★★★★★ Orbit August 4, 2015 Dystopian, Fantasy Synopsis: 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 town, comes home to find…
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By Heather A. 4 out of 5 stars ★★★★☆ Putnam Juvenile March 7, 2013 Young Adult, Post-Apocalypse After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the assumption that…
As you all know, I’ve been spending some time in the online dating world. It’s horrible and I hate it. All the men start to sound the same and I know deep-down I’m not going to be attracted to them if/when we meet in person. And as a book nerd, when I am looking at … More Dear Men, It’s Okay to Read (and Love) Books by Women
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In which I realize I do not read diversely. It’s embarrassing to say the least. Last week, Tqwana published her update on her Diverse Books Pledge. She had originally suggested we write the post together, but I had a very troubling realization, I had only read one…
Heather Allen 