Isaiah Roby's Blog: MI Book Reviews, page 70
August 19, 2020
Trade Deadline
Lovely sports romance featuring a childhood-best-friends-and-crushes-reunite-and-fall-in-love-(again) storyline between two men who followed their dreams.
It’s a reunion to remember…
Daniel “Bellzie” Bellamy should be on top of the world—a Stanley Cup is the perfect topper to his fourteen-year NHL career. But despite the post-win high, something’s missing. When the chance to play for his hometown team, the Miami Thunder, comes along, he’s open to it. And when he runs into an old friend from hi...
August 15, 2020
The Space Between Worlds
Super cool debut about multiverse travel, with an intriguing and unique way of storytelling and beautiful writing.
Also, sapphics!
An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens her new home and her fragile place in it, in a stunning sci-fi debut that’s both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging.
Multiverse travel is finally possible, but there’s just one catch: No one can visit a world where their counterpart...
August 14, 2020
Better Than People
“It’s not long before their pet-centric arrangement sparks a person-centric desire…
Simon Burke has always preferred animals to people. When the countdown to adopting his own dog is unexpectedly put on hold, Simon turns to the PetShare app to find the fluffy TLC he’s been missing. Meeting a grumpy children’s book illustrator who needs a dog walker isn’t easy for the man whose persistent anxiety has colored his whole life, but Jack Matheson’s menagerie is just what Simon needs.
Four dogs, three...
August 13, 2020
Seven Devils
Super fun, action-filled and at time dark space romp with a GREAT cast.
This first book in a feminist space opera duology follows seven resistance fighters who will free the galaxy from the ruthless Tholosian Empire — or die trying.
When Eris faked her death, she thought she had left her old life as the heir to the galaxy’s most ruthless empire behind. But her recruitment by the Novantaen Resistance, an organization opposed to the empire’s voracious expansion, throws her right back into the fr...
August 12, 2020
The Four Profound Weaves Giveaway
Do you like free books? Do you like queer novellas? Great!
The publisher for The Four Profound Weaves has offered one free digital copy of this book to someone of my choosing. To have a chance of winning, just send me an email at mibookreviews@gmail.com saying you want it and what the best email address for getting it to you would be. That’s it. I will pick a random person from who emails in and get the email address to the publisher to email you your book.
A winner will be announced on S...
The Four Profound Waves Giveaway
Do you like free books? Do you like queer novellas? Great!
The publisher for The Four Profound Waves has offered one free digital copy of this book to someone of my choosing. To have a chance of winning, just send me an email at mibookreviews@gmail.com saying you want it and what the best email address for getting it to you would be. That’s it. I will pick a random person from who emails in and get the email address to the publisher to email you your book.
A winner will be announced on Se...
August 11, 2020
Reverie
“Inception meets The Magicians in the most imaginative YA debut of the year!
All Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. He can’t remember how he got there, what happened after, and why his life seems so different now. And it’s not just Kane who’s different, the world feels off, reality itself seems different.
As Kane pieces together clues, three almost-strangers claim to be his friends and the only people who can truly tell him what’s going o...
August 10, 2020
Pet
This was BRILLIANT, there’s not a part of this I didn’t love.
Despite playing in an utopian city, Pet is very much relevant today. It’s about the unseen, invisible monstrosities going on right in front of our eyes, not because they are hidden but because we are ignorant – by choice, out of fear and out of habit.
Pet is here to hunt a monster.
Are you brave enough to look?
There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. With doting parents and a best frie...
August 5, 2020
The Meaning of Birds
“Before, Jessica has always struggled with anger issues, but come sophomore year that all changes when Vivi crashes into her life. As their relationship blossoms, Vivi not only helps Jess deal with her pain, she also encourages her to embrace her talent as an artist. And for the first time, it feels like the future is filled with possibilities. After In the midst of senior year, Jess’s perfect world is erased when Vivi suddenly passes away. Reeling from the devastating loss, Jess pushes everyone...
ARC Review: The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska
Sapphic witchy fantasy with a super cool setting and concept that takes well known tropes and dynamics from typically heterosexual stories and makes them GAY AF.
The Wicked Deep meets A Curse So Dark and Lonely in this gripping, dark fairy-tale fantasy about two girls who must choose between saving themselves, each other, or their sinking island city.
Every year on St. Walpurga’s Eve, Caldella’s Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to k...
