My Rating: 5 stars Many thanks to Harper Voyager and NetGalley for the ARC. This book is being released today, August 23 2022. Robin Swift is an orphan plucked out of Canton by Richard Lovell, an British professor who raises the boy with one goal: to enter the Royal Institute of Translation at Oxford University,… Continue reading Babel: An Arcane History by R. F. Kuang
Tag: historical fiction review
Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës by Isabel Greenberg
My Rating: 5 stars Glass Town is a historical fantasy graphic novel about the fictional world the Brontë siblings made up as children and wrote about into adulthood. It's one of the most gorgeous graphic novels I've encountered. Every single thing about it is beautiful: the art, the story, the dust jacket, the end pages,… Continue reading Glass Town: The Imaginary World of the Brontës by Isabel Greenberg
All the Good Little Girls Keep Quiet by K. Kibbee
Many thanks to Incorgnito Press Publishing and NetGalley for the ARC. This book is being released today, October 13 2020. My Rating: 2 stars Based on the description I read of All the Good Little Girls Keep Quiet, I went into it expecting an Adventures of Huckleberry Finn type story with a narrator somewhat like… Continue reading All the Good Little Girls Keep Quiet by K. Kibbee