Live Green, Wear Black.

 Yes, it's a retelling of Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher." Yes, the premise is fairly well telegraphed the moment w...

I read Legendborn and Bloodmarked specifically because Oathbound is a Hugo nominee. Without that context, I wouldn't understand the exte...

 Legendborn set up something genuinely specific: a 16-year-old who's grieving, intellectually advanced enough to do early college, sudde...

Hugo nominated novelette " The Millay Illusion " is really engaging and well written. On the surface it’s about stage magic in th...

This was my first Tracy Deonn book — I’m reading the series because the third one is a Hugo nominee — and Oathbound definitely gives me the...

Best Novel Title Author Publisher Rating / Review A Drop of Corruption Robert Jackson Bennett Del Rey / Hodderscape — Death of the ...

Another book from my Hugo nominee reading list: "The Everlasting" is a story about trauma and healing that uses the aesthetics of ...

This is a short story that carries an enormous amount of worldbuilding and implied interiority you don't fully grasp until the final pag...

TLDR: A sales manual pretending to be a universal communication framework. I listened to this at 2x speed, which was probably still too slow...

Another YA fantasy novel from my Hugo reading list, this one came in at a hefty 400 pages – still significantly less than some other nominee...