The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline
Rating: 4/5 What It’s About: Seduced by her employer’s son, Evangeline, a naïve young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is
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Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian
Rating: 3/5 What It’s About: Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four years old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
Rating: 3/5 What It’s About: Yadriel has summoned a ghost, and now he can’t get rid of him. When his
The Candlelit Menagerie by Caraline Brown
Rating: 2.5/5 What It’s About: Set in late eighteenth-century London, this debut novel features Lillian, a freakishly tall woman who
Mini Review: The Short Stories of Langston Hughes
What It’s About The Short Stories of Langston Hughes Sometimes called the Poet Laureate of Black America, Langston Hughes was
The King’s Justice by E.M. Powell
Rating: 5/5 What It’s About: England, 1176. Aelred Barling, esteemed clerk to the justices of King Henry II, is dispatched
Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
Rating: 5/5 What It’s About: Saul Indian Horse has hit bottom. His last binge almost killed him, and now he’s
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
Rating: 3/5 What It’s About: Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her
Mini Review: The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
A Foreword It’s been a real struggle for me to process my thoughts for The Poppy War. And after thinking
The Master’s Apprentice by Oliver Potzsch 
Rating: 2.5/5 What It’s About: It’s the fifteenth century and only heretics are curious about the universe. Germany, 1494. Born