The Keeper of Night by Kylie Lee Baker (Format used for this read: Print–hardback) A girl of two worlds, accepted by none… A half Reaper, half Shinigami soul collector seeks her destiny in this haunting and compulsively readable dark fantasy duology set in 1890s Japan. Death is her destiny. Half British Reaper, half Japanese Shinigami,…
Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang (Format used for this read: Audiobook) Authors June Hayward and Athena Liu were supposed to be twin rising stars. But Athena’s a literary darling. June Hayward is literally nobody. Who wants stories about basic white girls, June thinks. So when June witnesses Athena’s death in a freak accident, she acts…
How High We Go In The Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu (Format used for this book: Audiobook) In 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter at the Batagaika Crater, where researchers are studying long-buried secrets now revealed in melting permafrost, including the perfectly preserved remains of a girl who appears to have died of…
The Library of Legends by Janie Chang This book had the perfect set up for being a book I REALLY enjoyed. Historical fiction mixed with some folklore and supernatural and also some real historical learning….PERFECT kind of combo for me. But yall…. I just could NOT get into it. It was beautifully well written but…