Max Reviews: The Deep – Rivers Solomon

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...

Max Reviews: Girl Gone Missing by Marcie R. Rendon

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...