Warning: This review contains spoilers. As a contemporary fantasy debut, Mia Tsai’s Bitter Medicine is an extraordinary and distinct blend of agent thriller, the supernatural, …
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Foul Lady Fortune: Book Review
Fortune must be on the side of Chloe Gong’s fans, because Gong’s latest novel Foul Lady Fortune is yet another example of how lucky readers …
Babel: Or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
From the award-winning author of The Poppy War trilogy, R.F. Kuang brings her readers a new historical take on early nineteenth-century England with Babel. Taking place …
Strike the Zither: Book Review
Watching a Chinese drama — that’s what reading Joan He’s Strike the Zither, a reimagining of the Chinese classic Romance of the Three Kingdoms, feels …
Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove: Book Review
Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove is author Rati Mehrotra’s upcoming young adult fantasy novel, and, to put it simply, it’s a great …
Three Kisses, One Midnight: Book Review
Three authors — Roshani Chokshi, Sandhya Menon, and Evelyn Skye — have collaborated, and the product of their efforts is the heartwarming young adult novel …
The Darkening: Book Review
Warning: This review contains spoilers. The Darkening is a thrilling debut novel from Sunya Mara, a young adult fantasy that falls in the footsteps of …
Last of the Talons: Book Review
More and more books are featuring extensive Asian-inspired worldbuilding, and Sophie Kim’s debut novel Last of the Talons follows suit in emphasizing the importance of …
Direwood: Book Review
Warning: This review contains spoilers. If 2022 was going to have a defining moment, it would be Catherine Yu’s remarkable debut with her young adult …
Kaleidoscope: Book Review
Meet the Brightons, a biracial family who achieved the American Dream by creating Kaleidoscope, a “global bohemian” shopping empire that took New York City by …