If you need another reason to hate capitalism, read this book. Greenwell wove together several examples of how private equity companies devoured iconic American (and beyond) companies and made life worse for everyone from workers and consumers except for the bare few at the top of the company. So many people need to read this book.
Elliott has quite an extensive backlist that I need to check out after this introduction to her writing with her latest release. The plot has some typical fantasy tropes like the quest/journey trope yet in this book Elliott integrates it in a unique way while also exploring relationships and relationship changes because of secrets and their reveals. The characterization of one character specially blew me away. I eagerly anticipate the sequel.
Jimémez opens up and lays out all the vulnerable parts using beautiful, compelling prose. This vulnerability reveals her humanity, something so many who support the current administration’s treatment of immigrants choose to willfully ignore. I want to shove this memoir in their face and force them to reckon with the inhumanity of their beliefs even though I know how ineffective such actions would likely be. I highly recommend this memoir.
I normally absolutely love Alexander’s works. This one, however, missed tremendously. While I followed a long with a lot of the plot, certain things kept popping up in various poems that I could not figure out to what they referenced. On top of that, the ending came out of left field which ended up walloping me, the unexpected reader lulled into the idea that this was a comping of age novel in verse about a boy, his best friend, and an attempt to move
out of the friend zone with a girl he’s loved for years. Not every book from an author will work.
After the knockout success – for me – of The Seventh Veil of Salome last year, I eagerly anticipated her 2025 release. Whatever magic infected that book did not carry over to this one. I simply never engaged with these characters in the same way. I really enjoyed the most modern of the timelines but could take or leave the middle timeline. The oldest timeline, however, did not really work, mainly because of the weird relationship between that character and her uncle. I also did not
realize beforehand that this book leans far more toward horror than fantasy or historical which likely explains why this one did not work as well for me. I will continue to explore Moreno-Garcia’s backlist and what she comes out with next.
