by Avery Curran 🐣 1/5 ducklings tl;dr: a school for young girls is decaying, but the real decay is internalized misogyny and homophobia? I'm going to be honest, I did not like this book. I'll be as kind as I can, but I didn't find much redeeming about it. I hate it when I don't like a book, and not just because of the effort I made to read it. A novel, especially a debut novel, is so personal and it has a little piece of your soul, so it feels really bad when you receive neg

by Susan J. Morris 🐣🐣🐣🐣 4/5 ducklings tl;dr men are the worst…nope, that’s it. Men are the worst. This sequel to Strange Beasts is a fun gaslamp fantasy romp that reunites me with two of my favorite fictional women right now. I was so happy to be back with Sam and Hel and watch them solve the latest mystery while being harassed by various men. The events of Strange Beasts left their marks on Samantha Harker and Dr. Helena Moriarty. Sam still has flashbacks to her encounte

by Samantha Shannon 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 5/5 ducklings tl;dr those side characters from the main story you had questions about? Yeah, this is about...

I'm definitely reaching, but I love a deep literary analysis.

by Caitlin Starling 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 6/5 ducklings - yes, that's 6 ducklings, no I'm not good at math, but that's not relevant here. It's my...

By Natalie C. Parker Originally published September 2024 3/5 ducklings 🐣🐣🐣 tl;dr The real horror is homophobia. *** Something lives in...

By Rebecca Thorne Originally published March 2019 4/5 🐣🐣🐣🐣 tl;dr: Two exes are forced to spend time together on a dangerous mission...