(Sorcerer Royal #2)
by Zen Cho
★★★
Monthly archives: April 2019
Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother’s Time, My Mother’s Time, and Mine
by Emily Bernard
★★
The Street
by Ann Petry
I resented having to read through the chapters that presumably were to humanise the superintendent. We learn that he’s never had the capacity to socialise with other men, has lived in cellars too long, but at the same time he has absorbed the misogyny of our culture just … Read more
Sorcerer to the Crown
(Sorcerer Royal #1)
by Zen Cho
While I’m into Manglish, it’s a dragging chore to wade through stilted, pompous fantasy-speak. On top of that, referring to the female of the species so insistently is eminently irritating. It’s hard to stomach fantasy when one creates a world of dragons and fairies and … Read more
The Women of Brewster Place
by Gloria Naylor
Believably melodramatic until the absolute betrayal in “The Two”.
She Would Be King
by Wayétu Moore
★★★★