by envisionmg | Dec 22, 2022 | Audiobooks, Fiction, Max Reviews, Romance
The Heart Principle is Helen Hoang’s third entry into The Kiss Quotient Series, which gained popularity thanks to TikTok. Personally, I was not a huge fan of The Kiss Quotient and completely skipped The Bride Test, but a friend of mine insisted I try The Heart...
by envisionmg | Dec 1, 2022 | Fiction, Historical Fiction, Max Reviews, YA, YA Fiction
I was excited when The Great Gatsby entered the public domain last year, and Anna-Marie McLemore’s Self-Made Boys did not disappoint! This young adult remix of The Great Gatsby provides layers of complexity and nuance to the familiar characters and story. This...
by envisionmg | Nov 3, 2022 | Max Reviews, Music Review
If you’re not already a fan of Open Mike Eagle, be prepared for his newest album Component System with the Auto Reverse to be an experience. If you’re already a fan, then you know to expect an experience, I’m here to say it’s an incredible experience! In the second...
by envisionmg | Sep 2, 2022 | Max Reviews
Growing up, I was a huge fan of the pseudo-punk bands that ruled the Warped Tour circuit. I was also a closetted nonbinary person. Naturally, Laura Jane Grace, frontwoman of Against Me!, was an inspiration to my high-school aged self when she came out as transgender...
by envisionmg | Aug 1, 2022 | Max Reviews
Rivers Solomon’s short novel The Deep is a riveting folkloric, afrofuturist novel that imagines a society of water-dwelling beings who descended from pregnant African women who were thrown overboard slave ships. This is by far the most interesting mermaid narrative I...
by envisionmg | Jul 11, 2022 | Max Reviews
Cash Blackbear is back again in the second entry of Marcie R. Rendon’s Cash Blackbear Mystery Series, Girl Gone Missing. Just like its predecessor, the strength of Girl Gone Missing does not lie in the process of mystery-solving, but more so on how that process...
