Book cover I usually don't do the comparative thing, but this one stuck me pretty directly. Imagine the movie Crazy Rich Asians, but teenagers at a boarding school in the mountains outside of Aspen, with a broadly international cast. Main point: pretty much everybody is insanely rich. The main character, Jaya Rao, is a princess from an old kingdom of India who is literally there to break someone's heart....
Book cover The Graveyard Book isn't a horror novel, but it is absolutely goth and macabre. The story follows a boy from 18 months old when his whole family is murdered and he wanders off into the night through his childhood as he is raised in a graveyard by two ghosts and a vampire as guardian (who supplies physical things, like food and clothes). At one point, we meet a werewolf and ghouls as well....
Book cover This is a book that I've known about for most of my life, and Tom Sawyer is a character that I've heard referenced through my entire life. A fairly large area of Disney's Magic Kingdom is dedicated to this book; one of my favorite places to hang out for an hour. Yet, nothing of the story was spoiled for me. First and foremost, the "...
Book Cover Every once in a while, I try to get in a review of a classic. Something that some of my readers are likely to have read themselves. I do this, mostly, to help readers calibrate my taste... That is, it seems likely enough that some readers are likely to disagree with everything I like, and might find it compelling to read a book that I really didn't like....