Liz Harmer is a Canadian writer, editor, and professor at Chapman University. I had the pleasure of taking her Speculative…
Many fans were dismayed when it was revealed that the novel would follow Coriolanus, who is considered to be the main villain of the Hunger Games trilogy. I disagree, however. I believe that all monsters were once men, and “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” reveals Coriolanus’s tumultuous relationship between his humanity and his brutality as he struggled to survive in the brutal social sphere of the Capitol.
While this book incorporates elements from a previous trilogy by Black, they are not necessary to read to understand this one. The Darkest Part of the Forest combines the modern world with mythical creatures in a way that is somehow both jarring and completely seamless, and proves to be a wonderful read.
The book switches back and forth between point of views in order to tell the story of what is happening to Mark Watney, the stranded astronaut, and NASA officials on Earth trying to save him, but the language is always accessible and adds to the urgency.
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Alexandra Robbins’ The Overachievers is a different type of narrative story that pulls readers in and never lets them go.…
Jasmine Guillory’s The Proposal has brought an element to contemporary romance fiction that is rarely utilized: diversity. In The Proposal,…