Skyward – 4 stars

by | Sep 4, 2021 | Book Reviews

Synopsis Defeated, crushed, and driven almost to extinction, the remnants of the human race are trapped on a planet that is constantly attacked by mysterious alien starfighters. Spensa, a teenage girl living among them, longs to be a pilot. When she discovers the...

She Who Became the Sun – 3 stars

by | Sep 4, 2021 | Book Reviews

Synopsis To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything “I refuse to be nothing…” In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness… In 1345, China lies under harsh...

The Color Purple – 4 stars

by | Sep 4, 2021 | Book Reviews

Synopsis A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature, The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other...