Today is my stop on the Delicious Monsters Book Tour hosted by Hear Our Voices! Check out my review below! Review Delicious Monsters is a well-crafted paranormal thriller that will hold you down in your seat until you finish the last page. With dual timelines and point of views, I found myself equally intrigued by […]
“If you think you heard something…you didn’t.” Welcome to Appalachia folks and to the premise of Jackal by Erin Adams! I picked this book up expecting 2 or 3 things and got 6 or 7 very different other things instead in a very cool, roller coaster ride way. Black girls missing in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Racism? […]
Sisterhood, Drama, Family Ties and Harlem in the 80s/90s. Hold You Down by Tracy Brown will take you for a ride that will have you in your feels by the end of it. I picked Hold You Down up based on the cover featuring two Black women who looked like two stylish sisters – one […]
Adiba Nelson is going to take you for a ride with this book, Ain’t That a Mother! I was initially attracted to it because it looked like a book about motherhood and I don’t see too many of those with Black women on the cover. The subtitle, Postpartum, Palsy and Everything in Between also caught […]
It’s been a while since I’ve written a Friday Night Highlights post. But I’ve missed it, so here we are just in time to start prepping for Spooky Season! The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson I just finished reading this YA horror novel and I’m ready to read it again. I’m thinking of […]
Wash Day Diaries by Jamila Rowser is an ode to friendship and the hair care routines of Black women that connect us. I truly enjoyed this graphic novel! It’s inclusive and the stories of the four young women cover a wide range of personal experiences. It’s a quick read, but a memorable one that will […]
I love historical fiction. It has been my favorite genre since I began reading. Part of it is my desire to combine learning about experiences during different historical eras with my love of fiction. Reading a historical novel will inevitably lead me to Google the historical events and people featured in the book. When I […]
I just finished The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray last night and I had so many thoughts afterwards, that I decided that I definitely had to write this review ASAP. When I first saw The Personal Librarian debut last year, I kind of eyed it but never really sought it out […]
Have you picked up Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye yet? If you haven’t and you like young adult fantasy literature, you should consider adding it to your TBR. Today is my stop on the Colored Pages Book Tour and I have written 5 reasons to read Blood Scion. There is also some bonus content that […]
Today is my stop on the Turn the Pages Book Tour for Blood Scion by Deborah Falaye. Thank you to the publisher for providing a gifted copy. Check out my review below. Review: Whew! This was a solid debut. It was also a tough subject to read about. But the world building and development of […]