Book Review: Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda

  

   

     Title: Woman, Eating
     Author: Claire Kohda
     Published: April 12th 2022 @ Harpervia
     Genre: Urban Fantasy, Literary Fiction
    

     Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“Lydia,” she said, using my full name, which she only did when she was angry. “Do you think God would feed a body like yours?”

Book Review: The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd

 

           Title: The Cartographers
            Author: Peng Shepherd
            Published: March 15th 2022 @ William Morrow
            Genre: Urban Fantasy  

            Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

“Maps are love letters written to times and places their makers had explored.”

Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi

Title: Emergency Contact
Author: Mary H. K. Choi
Date Read: May 6th 2018
Published: March 27th 2018 @ Simon & Schuster
Genre: YA Contemporary


Rating: ⭐⭐⭐

"It's piles and piles of emotional homework forever if you ever want to qualify as a grown-up."

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Bioshock: Rapture by John Shirley

Title: Bioshock: Rapture 

Author: John Shirley

Date Read: May 13th 2018 

Published: July 19th 2011 @ Tor Books

Genre: Adult Science Fiction 

Rating: ⭐⭐

"I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck."

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Devils & Thieves by Jennifer Rush

Title: Devils & Thieves (Devils & Thieves #1)

Author: Jennifer Rush

Date Read: March 15th 2018

Published: October 3rd 2017 @ Little, Brown

Genre: YA Urban Fantasy

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Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel

Title: Last Night in Montreal 

Author: Emily St. John Mandel

Date Read: March 11th 2018

Published: January 1st 2009 @ Vintage

Genre: Literary Fiction/Mystery

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

“By now there were over a hundred pages of documents relating to the case: photographs, police reports, possible sightings. Memory reduced to manila envelopes and typed documents, stills from surveillance videos, early childhood photographs.”

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