Carolina reviews We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman
Carolina reviews We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman
Jen Silverman’s debut, We Play Ourselves, satirizes the contemporary art scene through the eyes of Cass, an embittered former drama wunderkind turned hapless millennial, as she uncovers the secrets behind an up-and-coming feminist documentary. However, behind that beautiful cover and biting wit, We Play Ourselves fails to balance criticism and nuance, and falls prey to the very structures that it…
Danika reviews Our Teachers are Dating! Vol. 1 by Pikachi Ohi
Danika reviews Our Teachers are Dating! Vol. 1 by Pikachi Ohi
I’ve been on a bit of a manga kick lately, especially lesbian manga. (See my post Lesbian Manga and Yuri Manga: What’s the Difference and Where Should You Start? for more.) My latest favourite has been How Do We Relationship?, and I’m always looking for more yuri manga with adult main characters. Unfortunately, Our Teachers are Dating! was a miss for me. This series takes place in a sort of weird…
Being a Killing Eve mega-fan since season one began, it was only a matter of time before I got around to reading the books. I picked up Luke Jennings’ series at just the right time – only a couple of months before the release of the third and final book, Die For Me. Codename Villanelle and No Tomorrowwere unbelievably enjoyable for…
“The Tox took teacher after teacher. Rules crumbling to dust and fading away, until only the barest bones were left.”
Body horror. Boarding school. Queer girls.
Wilder Girls promises a lot of cool things. Marketed as ‘a feminist Lord of the Flies’, one expects a grimdark pastiche of Enid Blyton’s Malory Towers, mixed with comfortingly familiar tropes of YA romance and maybe some creep-factor…
Birds of a Feather by Jackie Calhoun is one of the most depressing books I’ve ever read. And no, I haven’t read The Well of Loneliness. It is hard for me to think of a single moment of joy in Calhoun’s contemporary romance (published 1999). I use the term “romance” loosely, because romance seems to be as absent as joy is.
In the story, we follow Joan McKenzie, a divorcee nearing fifty whose…
I couldn’t find a way to write this review without spoilers, so you may want to proceed with caution if that’s a deal breaker. Also, this book wasn’t my jam. Despite featuring one of my favorite tropes (age-gap), being a space opera, and lots of people singing its praises, I couldn’t get into it. Lily and the Crown developed from a Devil Wears PradaAU fanfiction, so that was also part of the…
TW: PTSD, mental abuse, physical abuse, domestic abuse, gun violence, and mentions of sexual assault.
At the beginning of the story, main character Rose is eight years old and recently abducted. Our antagonist Arnold runs a child fighting ring, and Rose makes him money.
The details involving the collapse of the fighting racket, the rescue of the (many) kidnapped children, and Arnold’s arrest are…
