Category: Bookshelf

Flora & Ulysses

The cover of Kate DiCamillo's Flora & Ulysses, surrounded by greenery, and framed with a typewriter, a vacuum cleaner, a pair of sunglasses, a teacup, a donut, and a necktie.

If you need a fun, quick read that’s delightfully magical and laugh-out-loud funny, Flora & Ulysses is a great pick. Flora is a wonderful character. Smart and cynical, she nonetheless […]

The Kingdom of Back

Cover of Marie Lu's The Kingdom of Back -- a light blue stylized tree on a blue background.

Marie Lu’s The Kingdom of Back surprises with its mix of fantasy and historical fiction. I expected a fantasy, but at first, got nothing but a tale of Mozart’s forgotten […]

The Priestess Trials

The Priestess Trials cover on a cell phone. A woman in a leather dress holding a spear looks out over a river toward a waterfall.

The Priestess Trials by A. A. Lee places me in a rich, unique world that feels vaguely familiar. It’s like something I saw or heard during my time in China–but […]

The Raven and the Dove

Cover of The Raven and the Dove by Kaitlyn Davis. A beautiful dark-skinned woman with white wings and a blue ballgown touches hands with a tall, good-looking man in black with light skin, black hair, and black wings. Where their hands touch, there are sparks.

I picked up The Raven and The Dove from a sales promotion that Songs of Healing was also in, and I was glad I did. This story by Kaitlyn Davis […]