By Jonathan Evison © 2019, Algonquin Books 336 Pages ISBN 13: 978-1616209230 I had no idea what to expect when I selected Lawn Boy as my second banned book for 2025. I didn’t even know why it was banned, only that it was one of the 10 most banned books in the last few years….
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The Shadow of the Wind
By Carlos Ruiz Zafón Translated by Lucia Graves © February, 2005 487 pages ISBN-13: 978-0143034902 When Daniel’s father takes him to visit the cemetery of forgotten books for the first time, Daniel finds the novel Shadow of the Wind, written by Julián Carax, and is immediately hooked on the author’s story. But when he sets…
Brave New World
By Aldous Huxley Originally published in 1932 Republished Many Times (Horizon Ridge Publishing, June 16, 2024) 249 pages ISBN 13: 978-1068859625 Note: This review contains spoilers, or—more exactly—trigger warnings. Brave New World describes one version of “utopia.” The story starts in a factory where babies are produced. Yep, you read that correctly. In Aldous Huxley’s…
Bobiverse Series
By Dennis E. Taylor Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency Worldbuilders Press I originally reviewed book 1 (We Are Legion) in the Bobiverse series back in December of 2024, and highly recommended it for sci-fi fans, and especially fans of Star Trek. I finally got around to reading the other four books in the series (so far),…
Antuna’s Story
The Antunite Chronicles, Book 1 By Terry Birdgenaw © May 16, 2022, Cyborg Insect Books 190 pages ASIN: B0B1KWFF24 This story was…unique. While it did remind me at times of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series, Antuna’s Story was written more simply, without the deeper sophistication of Tchaikovsky’s storytelling style. That’s not to say…
All the Birds In the Sky
By Charlie Jane Anders Reprint Edition © April 11, 2017, Tor Books 320 pages ISBN-13: 978-0765379955 Wow. I am having a…difficult time classifying this book but will go with Post-Apocalyptic Science Fantasy crossed with ecofiction/climate fiction. All the Birds In the Sky is…different. Odd—in a good way. Groundbreaking. The writing is visionary, deep, and provocative….
Lock In
By John Scalzi © 8/26/2014, Tor Books 337 pages ASIN: B00IHCBE1C My last Scalzi read, Starter Villain, was light, snarky, and filled with feel-good stuff, even though it had some dark overtones. This one, Lock In, was the opposite. Based in a world where a new, highly contagious virus has affected millions of people worldwide…
Dreamfarer
Book One of the Dreamfarer Series By John B. Rosenman August 17, 2021 240 pages B0932D1D3K In a postapocalyptic world where warfare has been shifted into space to preserve what’s left of Earth, the vast majority of the population sleeps in dream units—vast machines where they spend their adult lives existing within a dream of…
Ragged Alice
By Gareth Powell © 4/23/2019 by Tordotcom File Size 5324 KB ASIN: B07HF2Q1CV I have read and enjoyed other Gareth Powell books, all of which were science fiction. Ragged Alice is not sci-fi; instead, it’s a paranormal mystery, and it’s every bit as good as I expected from this author. The story takes place in…
Nightlock
By Sophie Edwards © September 2024, Lillabe Books 396 pages ASIN: B0CWYGPYBF Sally’s a bored young woman working a meaningless job at her sister’s business. She’s eager to break away, go out on her own, see the world. After all, her mother and her sister have always been overprotective. Sally wants more–until she gets what…