Rating: 5/5 Volume 7 just gets better and better. This is perhaps my favorite installment, filled with a great sense of humor and drama between friends. I love that new drama begins to unfold with Daisy’s relationship with her girlfriend living in their house. I love that Susan begins secretly sneaking around with McGraw again.

Rating: 5/5 Trail of Lightning wasn’t quite everything I was looking for after I had initially heard about this book, but it was close. I wasn’t a big fan of Roanhorse’s writing style, but I was a huge fan of her storyline and the characters she presents in Trail of Lightning. Dinetah, formerly known as

Rating: 5/5 While the language Stiefvater uses is not my favorite, by about halfway through this book I found myself jazzed up to see the ending through. Blue Sargent is the daughter of a psychic, and she’s grown up in a house full of psychics, offering her energy as a conduit for psychic information. She

Rating: 5/5 Jesmyn Ward’s writing is poetic and incredible. In Where the Line Bleeds, Ward uses a narrative style that struck me with how incredibly it fit into the story. It’s almost a journalistic tone, as though she were recording factual evidence from a story that had already occurred. Her descriptions took me back into

Rating: 4/5 This installment was a little sad in that it seemds frustrations are high and secrets are running rampant in the groups’ way of interacting with each other. It’s always sad when friendships are struggling and people are moving on from such a tight knit community. However, I think it’s important to recognize too

Rating: 3/5 While I was able to get into the first of the series once I finally slugged my way through the halfway point and found the point, this book was much harder to get into. The story focused on Adam and Ronan’s storylines more than anyone else, and I have to say I found

Rating: 4/5 I finally got around to reading this short nonfiction essay to Adichie’s daughter, and although it didn’t blow me away, it was a beautiful and concise way to discuss feminism with a young woman. I have always admired Adichie’s writing style, and her ability to be so clear and choose her words so

Rating: 4/5 This installment took the series to the next level for me. Plot finally begins developing in the form of a mysterious Bear Woman. There is much to do with character development, an area this series was somewhat lacking in previously. One of my favorite chapters is one in which each of the girls

Rating: 3.5/5 This was an incredibly bizarre collection of short stories. I didn’t quite know what I was getting into, reading this book while waiting for my car to be fixed at the auto shop. I jumped right in and found some of the stories compelling, some of them exciting, some of them just confusing

Rating: 4/5 Want easy recipes in a different format than cooking, with more emotional baggage to inspire you? This is the graphic novel for you. Knisley knocked my socks off with this food memoir, and I’m not sure why I hesitated for so long before picking this up. Clearly, this is a genre I need