Between Worlds: Finding Home in Fantasy
This is a repost of an article I wrote for Book Riot on the 8th of March, 2016 i.e. International Women’s Day. I thought it worked nicely for this month’s […]
Tag Archives: Fantasy
Missing Memories in YA Fantasy/SF
This post most certainly will contain spoilers, though I have tried not to be very obvious about it. If you haven’t read any of the books I’ve mentioned in my […]
Farah Mendlesohn at Green College, March 11, 2016
The Rhetorics of Fantasy and the Rhetorics of Social Justice That is the title of the talk Farah Mendlesohn, Professor and Head of Department in the Department of English, Communication, Film […]
Review: Serpentine by Cindy Pon
Lush with details from Chinese folklore, Serpentine tells the coming of age story of Skybright, a young girl who worries about her growing otherness. As she turns sixteen, Skybright notices troubling […]
Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
The Crescent Moon Kingdoms, home to djenn and ghuls, holy warriors and heretics, are at the boiling point of a power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious master […]
Interview with Sarah Rees Brennan [Part 1/3]: On Heroism and Fantasy Tropes
So, over Twitter, I asked Sarah Rees Brennan if I could interview her for The Book Wars, and SHE ACTUALLY SAID YES! Needless to say, I got very excited and […]
Review: Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis
Today’s Free For All post is from a shiny new guest contributor: Arielle Spence. Arielle has written a review for a gem of a book that has gone neglected on The Book Wars […]
Fiction and Pretext
I tend not to read realistic fiction. For some reason, “family drama,” “high school angst,” or “coming of age” tales in the here-and-now don’t appeal. In general, that is; there […]
Welcome to Speculative Fiction Month (A.K.A. The Spectrum of Written Fictional Works)
We here at The Book Wars work by monthly themes because it keeps our reading and reviewing somewhat in focus (unless powerful forces like Publishing Houses request our attention and […]
The Boundless: Historical Fiction by Kenneth Oppel
Our Resident Oppel fan, Janet (who is defending her thesis this week!), gave me the go ahead to review Oppel’s newest release The Boundless. I have to say I thoroughly […]
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