Category: Review

Let’s review! Discussion of what I thought of the books I read.

Review: Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

Sage Elliott, 20 May 202517 May 2025

Meet Kaz and his group of outcasts. Can they pull off an impossible heist that will give them a life-changing amount of money?

Sage Elliott, 8 April 202516 June 2025

Queer magical girls save Portland in Magica Riot, a self-published debut novel by trans author Kara Buchanan.

Sage Elliott, 25 March 202518 March 2025

Human Acts is the brutal story of the Gwangju uprising. More notably, how the uprising impacted those involved.

Sage Elliott, 18 March 202518 March 2025

Paris, 1880s: inconvenient women are sent to the Salpêtrière asylum. Paris residents enjoy watching hypnotisms and attending the yearly ball.

Sage Elliott, 11 March 202518 March 2025

Meet “Jane,” an underground provider of abortions in the Chicago area in the years leading up to Roe v. Wade. Will similar groups rise again?

Sage Elliott, 4 March 20255 March 2025

Collins’ novel tells the story of a former slave who is charged with the murder of her master/mistress. What’s her side of the story?

Sage Elliott, 18 February 202518 March 2025

Can this final girl survive a real-life horror scenario? Find out in Kalynn Bayron’s novel, You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight.

Sage Elliott, 11 February 202518 March 2025

Welcome to Erin E. Adam’s novel Jackal, a genre-bending novel combining horror and thriller elements. Can you solve this mystery?

Sage Elliott, 4 February 202521 February 2025

The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson is a YA retelling of Stephen King’s Carrie. What did I think? Let’s talk about it.

Sage Elliott, 28 January 202521 February 2025

Is there an ethical way to discuss true crime? Slater asks this very question in her novel, Death of a Bookseller.