Review & Blog Tour: Forgive Me Not by Mari Costa We are thrilled to be part of the blog tour for Forgive-Me-Not by Mari Costa, a graphic novel out April 14th from First Second Books. If you have been following BookCrushin for any length of time you know we love a […]
Review: Star Wars Outlaws: Low Red Moon by Mike Chen Mike Chen has this talent for making massive sci-fi concepts feel almost unfairly intimate. He can take a universe filled with war droids and crime syndicates and make the whole thing feel painfully human. With Star Wars Outlaws: Low Red […]
Audiobook Review: Why This Wretched Beauty is the Dorian Gray Retelling We Were Always Waiting For Oscar Wilde published The Picture of Dorian Gray in 1890 and was immediately condemned for it. Critics called it unclean, effeminate, contaminating. The original magazine version had already been edited without his knowledge to […]
Review: The Stories That Won’t Burn: A Narrative of Resistance Censorship thrives on silence, but some stories are simply too loud to be extinguished. Samira Ahmed’s novel This Book Won’t Burn and the anthology Banned Together, edited by Ashley Hope Pérez, refuse that silence in ways that are both complementary […]
Review: Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas To celebrate the release of the paperback edition of Celestial Monsters, the final book in the Sunbearer Duology by Aiden Thomas. I thought to myself, how will I promote this special release, and then I realized that I technically never posted a review on […]
ARC Review: Postscript by Cory McCarthy Postscript by Cory McCarthy is very different than other Cory McCarthy books I have read, but also somehow very much a Cory McCarthy book. Does that make sense to anyone other than people who have read Cory’s work…IDK but I am going to do […]
ReReading (or Listening!): This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers (Courtney’s Edition) I don’t reread a lot of books and, when I do, it’s usually because something about the story never really left me. This Is Not a Test is one of those books. I remember how it made […]
Audiobook Review: Fatal Throne by Various Authors There are certain parts of history that never fail to pull me in. I’m endlessly fascinated by the complex political layers that led to trench warfare in World War I. I love diving into the mysteries and innovations of ancient Egypt. Lately I’ve […]
ARC Review: Better the Devil by Erik J. Brown Some books pull you in because they are fun. Others pull you in because they feel dangerous to read, like you know things are going to go wrong and you keep turning pages anyway. Better the Devil is very much the […]
Audiobook Review: Thirsty by Lucy Lehane I have been deep in a vampire era lately so when I got the Thirsty audiobook from Mac Audio (TY!), I was thrilled. I knew I wanted something queer, paranormal, funny and a little messy, and this checked every single box. From the first […]