Book Tour: THE JASMINE THRONE by Tasha Suri

Rating: ★★★★★ ◦◦ (5/5) | Spoilers?: No.

Genre: Adult Fantasy | Representation: Indian/South Asian (ownvoices), F/F (ownvoices)

THE FOREST OF STOLEN GIRLS by June Hur :: a chilling tale of two sisters

Rating: ★★★★★ ◦◦ (5/5) | Spoilers?: No.

Sun and Chai 2.0: A blog (and blogger) relaunch

Hello everyone and a happy 2021! It’s really been a while hasn’t it, huh. I actually can’t even remember the last time I wrote a blog post. It’s unfortunate because right before the pandemic hit, I think I was actually starting to feel good about book blogging again and was convinced my reading slump was behind me. 

Turns out that, while the pandemic did provide me with a bit more free time than usual, it also made doing everything I considered a hobby feel like a chore. And then it made existing feel like a chore. Long story short, I didn’t read a single book until Christmas time. 

Pride, Acceptance, and Understanding Comes With Knowing You Exist #RepresentationMeans

Author: Jo @ Jo_Scribbles
I’m Jo, a children’s bookseller, and I’ve been a book blogger for ten years. I adore diverse YA, high fantasy, and retellings. Outside of books, I love musical theatre, intersectional feminism, period dramas, and old school point and click adventure computer games.

I’m Not the Villain of Your Story #RepresentationMeans

Author: Noémie @ Tempest of Books
My name is Noémie, I’m a 25-year-old living in France. I’m currently studying law at university, after having graduated with an English degree a few years ago (almost 4 years ago now that I think about it, but it feels like a lifetime ago). Proud Slytherin who loves to read, play video games and drink tea. I sometimes write but I mostly procrastinate by making pinterest boards for my characters.

The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco :: climate change and clever use of the first person

Rating: ★★★★ ◦◦ (4/5) | Spoilers?: No.

My Journey to Believing I’m Valid #RepresentationMeans

Author: Krisha @ Bookathon
Hi ! I am Krisha and I talk about Books and Everything Related on Bookathon. I am an avid reader, blogger, dancer and a lover of flowers. I am passionate about supporting diverse and ownvoices authors and books.

Check Your Ability: On OwnVoices Disability Representation

Hi everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. Today I’m coming at you with a quite long but very important post that I hope you’ll at least skim through til the end. If you’ve been following me on Twitter, you’ll recall a tweet I made a few weeks ago about the abysmal disability (physical and mental) representation in the sci-fi and fantasy genres. That tweet spurred a lot of great conversation, particularly from the disabled writing community, and it struck me just how invisible disabled voices are to the able-bodied/neurotypical population.

The Fever King by Victoria Lee :: an ode to victims, a battle cry to revolution

Rating: ★★★★1/2 ◦◦ (4.5/5) | Spoilers?: One, but vaguely written and names are redacted.

Goals and Gut Checks: June 2019

Hey everyone! I hope everyone’s had a great month of May and a lovely start to June. I know this is a bit late for a monthly wrap up post, but I’ve unfortunately been swamped at my job and then been way too tired to do much else when I do get free time. It’s also why I haven’t been able to read as many of your wrap up posts as I would have liked, but from what I’ve seen, May was an overall good month, and there’s an air of positivity going into June! As for myself, I’d say I’m on a similar wavelength.