Review: Bent Heavens – Horrific, Depressing, and Super Compelling

Title: Bent Heavens Author: Daniel Kraus Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Genre(s): "YA" Horror, Contemporary Subject(s): Alien abduction, torture Release Date: Feb 25th, 2020 Page Count: 304 (hardback) Rating: 8.0/10         Liv Fleming’s father went missing more than two years ago, not long after he claimed to have been abducted by aliens. …

Review: Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers 3) – A Cozy Space Soap Opera

Title: Record of a Spaceborn Few Author: Becky Chambers Publisher: Harper Voyager Release Date: July 24th, 2018 Genre(s) and Subject(s): Space Opera, Aliens, LGBTQIAP+ Page Count: 368 (paperback) Goodreads Rating: 8.0/10         Becky Chambers' third entry in her highly-acclaimed Wayfarers series opens with a catastrophic accident and a mass funeral. Thousands of …

Review: Annex (The Violet Wars 1) – Kids VS Aliens

Author: Rich Larson Publisher: Orbit Release Date: July 24th, 2018 Genre(s) and Themes: Sci-Fi, LGBTQIAP+ Page Count: 368 (paperback) Goodreads Rating: 7.0/10       Annex bucks my recent trend of reading books that have strong beginnings and lackluster endings, because I struggled hard with the beginning of this one. The book presents a city …