by envisionmg | Sep 19, 2022 | All Kinds of Lives, DVD/Movie, Fiction, Max Reviews, Music Review, Non-fiction, Shilpa Reviews, YA Fiction
All Kinds of Lives (September 2022) by Shilpa Jacobie and Max McConnell
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 27, 2022 | All Kinds of Lives, Max Reviews, Shilpa Reviews, YA, YA Fiction
All Kinds of Lives (July 2022) by Shilpa Jacobie and Max McConnell
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...
by envisionmg | May 23, 2022 | Max Reviews
River Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts is an imaginative, violent science fiction novel that explores the brutality of plantation slavery in a generation ship setting, which holds the descendents of those who fled a dying Earth hundreds of years ago. The world of...