Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 16

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“WHEN THE BLUE DOOR OPENS, WINTER WILL COME TO FELS.

11-year old Jo has finally managed to make a friend at her new Rani, the girl who runs like the wind. Together, Jo and Rani are planning the perfect winter cookie baking, caroling, and ice skating at the local pond.
But when the Fels Christmas market is vandalized and strange symbols are found on the stalls, Jo starts to worry that the chilling prophecy made by the monster who kidnapped her brother in the fall might be coming true after all,...

Fifty Shades of Gorgosaur – Isaiah’s Review

“His tastes are… unconventional

Alessandra Ironside has three goals in escape her tiny apartment, stop eating ramen for dinner, and finally live her “thriving girlboss” era. So when she lands a high-paying job as the assistant to billionaire CEO Tristan Black, she thinks she’s made it. Sure, the man is colder than a boardroom AC set to Arctic, and the job involves bizarre tasks like dusting creepy dinosaur skulls and “delivering the goat.” But hey, a win’s a win.

Except… Tristan Black isn’...

Your Mind Is a Terrible Thing

Another book by this author that is working much better for me on reread than on first read.

Communications specialist Alto’s shift aboard the starship M.G. Yellowjacket turns hellish after waking from a tryst to learn every crewmate has vanished. Worse, a sinister presence has crawled aboard the ship. It’s violent, destructive, and it can reach into your thoughts to make you see and feel what it wants.
Anxiety-ridden Alto might be the least-qualified person to face a creature that can hack m...

Fifty Shades of Gorgosaur

Unironically? This was absolutely hilarious, and I had a great time with it.

His tastes are… unconventional
Alessandra Ironside has three goals in escape her tiny apartment, stop eating ramen for dinner, and finally live her “thriving girlboss” era. So when she lands a high-paying job as the assistant to billionaire CEO Tristan Black, she thinks she’s made it. Sure, the man is colder than a boardroom AC set to Arctic, and the job involves bizarre tasks like dusting creepy dinosaur skulls and ...

The Fourth Consort

I love alien stories, and I love first contact alien stories in particular – so when this also added “bizarre love triangle” in the mix I was hooked immediately. Unfortunately, there was neither “love” nor “triangle” in any shape or form – but thankfully still plenty of aliens and first contact shenanigans.

A new standalone sci-fi novel from Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7 (soon to be a major motion picture from Director Bong Joon Ho). 

Dalton Greaves is a hero. He’s one of humankind’s first...

Horrorstör

Fun horror book with an inventive design hook.

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking.
To unravel the mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In the dead of the night, they’ll patrol the empty showroom ...

Giveaway – Santa is My Other Daddy

I have not been reading as much as I hoped lately. The semester has really kicked my butt. I am almost through, so know that if you sent me a book I have not forgotten. I am just behaving and writing my papers and making my presentations.

That being said, I want to thank everyone for supporting MiBR this year with a new giveaway:

Patterdale, one of the heroes of unhoused queer youth, is giving us all a gift this year. Santa is My Other Daddy is all about finding love and acceptance. Th...

The Worm and His Kings

I read this book twice, and had two quite different experiences, so I’m including both reviews here!

New York City, 1990: When you slip through the cracks, no one is there to catch you. Monique learns that the hard way after her girlfriend Donna vanishes without a trace.
Only after the disappearances of several other impoverished women does Monique hear the rumors. A taloned monster stalks the city’s underground and snatches victims into the dark.
Donna isn’t missing. She was taken.
To save the...

A Quick & Easy Guide to Asexuality

Just like the title implies, this is a quick and easy guide to asexuality.

This book is for anyone who wants to learn about asexuality, and for Ace people themselves, to validate their experiences.
Asexuality is often called The Invisible Orientation. You don’t learn about it in school, you don’t hear “ace” on television. So, it’s kinda hard to be ace in a society so steeped in sex that no one knows you exist. Too many young people grow up believing that their lack of sexual desire means they ...

Bury Your Gays

What a fun read! To be perfectly honest, this did have some flaws and things that, to me, didn’t quite add up or felt a bit reductive, but I had so much fun with it that I’m counting this as a new favourite.

Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell.
But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off ...