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#loveOzYA :: In the Dark Spaces :: Cally Black
I had heard a little bit about In the Dark Spaces after Cally Black won the Ampersand Prize, and I was pleased when the Read Harder Challenge gave me an excuse to bump it up my tbr, with task 17 – A sci fi novel with a female protagonist by a female author. ‘Dark’ is right there i the title of this novel, and gosh was it dark! The book opens with the protagonist, Tamara, being kidnapped by ‘Crowpeople’ and finding herself in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by apparently violent people whose language she can’t understand. I felt like every bit of Tamara’s anxiety and discomfort in this situation came…
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Review :: Zenith :: Sasha Alsberg & Lindsay Cummings
Despite being a fan of sci-fi on the screen, I hardly read any (and, weirdly, vice-versa for fantasy – I don’t watch a lot but it makes up most of my reading). With Zenith, the stars kind of aligned (haha, stars, sci-fi, space – see what I did there?) – the Read Harder Challenge 2018 includes a task about female author/protagonist sci-fi, I’d heard a bit of buzz about this book, and Harlequin Books had review copies available. It’s YA sci-fi featuring a crew of female space pirates… how could I say no? Summary from Goodreads: Most know Androma Racella as the Bloody Baroness, a powerful mercenary whose reign of…
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Review :: Select :: Marit Weisenberg
** I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own** Here’s another book I picked up on NetGalley on a whim due to a beautiful cover! Usually I would share the book description at this point, but sometimes I really enjoy going in blind, and this is one of those instances where I feel like the book summary can give you just a bit too much info. So instead, a few bullet points about this one: It’s YA speculative fiction (closer to sci-fi than fantasy), with a cult-ish twist and a pretty good romance. I found the community situation/setting for the book quite mysterious (what…
