Review: The Photonic Effect by Mike Chen I have been a Mike Chen fan since his debut and have read everything he has put out since. So when I tell you it genuinely surprised me to realize that The Photonic Effect is his first space opera, I mean that. Everything […]
Review: How Solo: A Star Wars Story Novelization Made Me Love Solo: A Star Wars Story the Movie The Force is strong with this adaptation…and so is the hair care routine. Most Star Wars fans have their favorite movie, and probably a well-debated order in which they rank them. For […]
Review: A Murder in Zion by Nicole Maggi Nicole Maggi’s A Murder in Zion is the first book in her National Park Mystery series, following Special Agent Emmeline Helliwell of the National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch as she investigates the murder of a childhood friend in the Narrows of […]
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 […]