Malice
We love a sapphic fairytale retelling! Alyce is the Dark Grace, a young woman with nefarious heritage in a city that relies on the magic of the Graces to thrive. When she makes an unlikely friend in the Princess Aurora, who has a year until a curse on her bloodline kills her like it did her sisters, Alyce decides to risk everything to help the Princess. I really only had one big issue with the book. There were a few side characters that were important enough to be mentioned a
American Royalty
Hoo boy, this was a great book to read, and not to read at work, LEARN FROM MY MISTAKES! Dani, AKA Duchess, is a huge rap artist in the states who is trying to break away from her label to take control of her own career and see success with her skincare brand. Prince Jameson wants nothing more than to disappear into academics, but after his aunts and uncle’s scandals, he’s chosen by the Queen to head a tribute to the beloved late King. After booking Duchess, without doing muc
Time Skip
So I’ve read three books between my last post and this one. I finished annotating my copy of Twilight, which I only enjoyed reading because I could make myself laugh with the annotations. It’s truly an awful book, and I wouldn’t recommend reading it except for satire, if at all. Instead, read about the Quilleute’s Move to Higher ground project here because they deserve more coverage than SMeyer. The second book was The House in the Cerulean Sea, which is about an orphanage th
A Girl Called Echo, Vol 1 & 2
Sometimes, at work, I get to read multiple books. These graphic novels were written by Indigenous Canadians about the history of their people, when the colonizers came to their land. Echo is a young woman living in modern-day Canada who is separated from her Indigenous mother, and thus her culture. Through music and books she finds in the library, she falls into dreams where she experiences the past with her people. My bookstore only had the first and second volumes, but I wi
