Hi there! Welcome to our November Finale for Marcie R. Rendon's 2024 Where They Last Saw Her. Trigger Warning: Attempted Murder, Abduction, Talk of Rape, Sex-Trafficking, Domestic Violence, Assault, Verbal Abuse, Emotional Abuse, Talk of Death, Child Death, Gun Violence. Overall We really think this was a wild time for the second half of this book. Cliff is the same person as Trent? Same guy? A lot of action took place in the second half of the book, with very little resolu

Hi there! Welcome to our November Intermission for Marcie R. Rendon's 2024 Where They Last Saw Her. Trigger Warning: Murder, Stalking, Abduction, Child Abduction, Racism, Mention of Domestic Abuse, Mention of Hard Drugs, Date Rape Drug Emergency, Administration of Narcan Needle, Taser Deployment, Male Aggression, Protest Marching, Grief. Overall So far, part one has been interesting, and we like the book so far. It's definitely meant to bring attention to the real-world prob

Hi there! Welcome to our October Finale for S. T. Gibson's 2021 A Dowry of Blood. Trigger Warning: Emotional, Verbal, Physical Intimate Partner Abuse, Gaslighting, War, Famine, and Plague, Blood & Gore, Sexual Content (3/5 🌶) , Sado/Masochism, Self-Harm, Body Horror, Violence, Murder, Alcohol Use, Depression & Mania, Brief references of Sexual Assault, Drug Use, Drowning Overall We both loved this book for sure, and we paid a lot of attention to how intentional it was. This

Hi there! Welcome to our October Intermission for S. T. Gibson's 2021 A Dowry of Blood. Trigger Warning: Emotional, Verbal, Physical Intimate Partner Abuse, Gaslighting, War, Famine, and Plague, Blood & Gore, Sexual Content (3/5 🌶) , Sado/Masochism, Self-Harm, Body Horror, Violence, Murder, Alcohol Use, Depression & Mania, Brief references of Sexual Assault, Drug Use, Drowning Overall This book has become a crowd favorite over the years, and it is one of our favorite ones o

Hi there! Welcome to our September Finale for Ana Castillo's 1993 novel So Far from God. Trigger Warning: Suicide, HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Death from Disease, Murder, Torture. There were mostly women in the book, which was kind of cool. Each of the daughters dies a horrible death, and the mother outlives them, which is sad and bizarre but intentional, we think. The book felt unfinished and open-ended, and intentionally unintentional, in that they walked away and they stopped carin

Hi there! Welcome to our September Intermission for Ana Castillo's 1993 novel So Far From God. Trigger Warning: Animal Death, Violent Assault, People Death, Mutilation, Rape, Firearms Overall Ceraya likes this book; it's definitely a slower-paced book, even though a lot of things happen to these characters. The book doesn't feel eventful, but a ton of things occur that are considered intense, even though the book is written in a casual tone. The magic and mysticism in this

Hi there! Welcome to our August 2025 Finale for Laurie Halse Anderson's 1999 novel Speak. Trigger Warning: Self-Harm, Sexual Assault, Suicidal Ideation, High School Drama, Emotionally Unintelligent Parents, Discussion of Rape Overall Overall, we both think we liked this book a ton. We felt that the first half and second half were very similar in that they were written in the same matter-of-fact expression. We think it's important to show different experiences with resolving

Hi there! Welcome to our August 2025 Intermission for Laurie Halse Anderson's 1999 novel Speak. Trigger Warning: Self-Harm, Sexual...

Hi there! Welcome to our July Finale for Lillie Lainoff's 2022 One for All. Trigger Warning: Violence, Swordfighting, Murder,...

Hi there! Welcome to our July Intermission for Lillie Lainoff's 2022 novel One for All. Trigger Warning: Violence, Swordfighting, Murder,...

Hi there! Welcome to our June Finale for Ilana Masad's 2020 All My Mother's Lovers. Trigger Warning: Death, Mourning, Car Crash, Domestic...

Hi there! Welcome to our June Intermission for Ilana Masad's 2020 All My Mother's Lovers. Trigger Warning: Death, Car Crash, Domestic...

Hi there! Welcome to our May Finale for Xiran Jay Zhao's 2021 Iron Widow. Trigger Warning: Violence, abuse, suicidal ideation, sexual...

Hi there! Welcome to our May 2025 Intermission for Xiran Jay Zhao's 2021 Iron Widow. Trigger Warning: Violence, abuse, suicidal ideation,...

Hi there! Welcome to our May Intermission for Joumana Haddad's 2010 novella, I Killed Scheherazade: Confessions of an Angry Arab Woman....

Hi there! Welcome to our March Finale for Alix E. Harrow's 2020 novel The Once and Future Witches. Trigger Warning: kidnapping of infant,...

Hi there! Welcome to our March Intermission for Alix E. Harrow's The Once and Future Witches. Trigger Warning: violence, childbirth,...

Hi there! Welcome to our February Finale for Kalynn Bayron's Cinderella is Dead. Trigger Warning: Violence, Misogyny, Domestic Abuse,...

Hi there! Welcome to our February Intermission for Kaylnn Bayron's Cinderella is Dead. Trigger Warning: Violence, Misogyny, Domestic...

Hi there! Welcome to our January Finale for Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale. Trigger Warning: violence, gore, cults,...