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Book Review: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Oct 2, 2019 | RELAX: Other Relaxation

I wanted to love the new Gilead book from Margaret Atwood. I wanted that so much. And it didn’t happen for me. She tells a tale that pales in comparison to both The Handmaid’s Tale book and television series. It’s not gritty, suspenseful, or driven by compelling...

Book Review: Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Sep 28, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Rebecca Roanhorse crafts a unique fantasy tale in Trail of Lightning. The world she creates is in the near future, but has undergone some big physical and metaphysical changes. Heroine Maggie Hoskie survives The Big Water (catastrophic flooding caused by climate...

Book Review: Year One by Nora Roberts

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Aug 14, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

Year One by Nora Roberts is an interesting choice to follow my recent reads by Tosca Lee and J. D. Horn. It combines elements of each book into a satisfying post-pandemic adventure with a magical twist. It’s more about escaping the big city than Lee’s focus on the...

Book Review: Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Feb 14, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, RESIST: Feminism

A biographer, a wise woman, a wife, a daughter, and an explorer form the core of Red Clocks, from author Leni Zumas. They seem to have only one thing in common—being women living in a country where reproductive rights are more and more limited.Susan is a wife and...

Book Review: Vox by Christina Dalcher

by Barbara the Bibliophage | Jan 1, 2019 | RELAX: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, RESIST: Feminism

Christina Dalcher writes about a woman not unlike herself in her debut novel, Vox. Her main character, Dr. Jean McClellan is a PhD nuerolinguist working on research about aphasia. Well, she formerly researched language changes after brain injury. But in Dalcher’s...

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