Odessa Thank you to NetGalley and Little, Brown and Company for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In a powerfully imagined Russia at the height of the pogroms, a grief-stricken family turn to ancient magic to bring their daughter back […]
It’s Tuesday again, and I’m going to be aiming to get my blog hopping done earlier in the week. Last week I had an endoscopy/colonoscopy on Wednesday, and I just basically laid low all week long. I did manage to get a haircut that was long overdue, and […]
Wow, this week’s prompt is a really great one, and it’s all about my top ten new-to-me authors I discovered in 2024. While I love reading books by the authors I love, I’ve also encountered some really great authors that I hadn’t read anything by. So I am […]
Night Owls Thank you to NetGalley and HarperCollins for providing an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. In this thrilling paranormal YA romance debut steeped in folklore, two estries—owl-shifting female vampires from Jewish tradition—face New York’s monstrous underworld to save the girl one of […]
The Pomegranate Gate Thank you to NetGalley and Erewhon Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Ariel Kaplan’s The Pomegranate Gate is the lyrical first installment of the Mirror Realm Cycle, a vibrant and heartfelt Inquisition-era Jewish epic fantasy in the […]
The Golem and the Jinni CONTENT WARNING: violence, death, grief, murder, enslavement, miscarriage, death of a parent, suicide Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, […]
This week’s topic is books I’m grateful for, and I can already tell that this is going to be a difficult one. I’m kind of grateful for a lot of books! But when I’m really struggling, a book that can take my mind off of whatever is going […]
Thistlefoot Author: GennaRose Nethercott Genre: Fantasy Publication Date: September 13, 2022 Publisher: Anchor Books Thank you to NetGalley and Anchor Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: murder, blood, antisemitism, xenophobia, racism, violence, gore, death In the […]
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