by McKenzie | Sep 20, 2021 | Fiction, Reviews
I’ll be honest: I’ve spent the last two days trying to let this book go (or rather, to pry its hooks out of me). This book is all at once startling and overwhelming, beautifully composed, and thieving (as ‘haunting’ in this case is not a strong enough word). I...
by McKenzie | Dec 17, 2018 | Fiction, Reviews
Hi everyone! I recently read K. Arsenault Rivera’s The Phonex Empress, the sequel to The Tiger’s Daughter. You can read the review here; I hope you’ll check out Rivera’s work. Thank you to BookPage for having me, and thanks to all of...
by McKenzie | Feb 5, 2015 | Fiction, Reviews
We all have to grow up someday. And some of us are dealt a better hand than others—some during our childhood, others later in life, and even others not at all. But we find a way to persist, to perceive the world and how to function within its barriers. We...
by McKenzie | Sep 5, 2014 | Fiction, Reviews
Even when you read regularly, it takes time to find something truly great; but every once in a while, there will be a book, a poem, a story, that truly turns you on your heel, holds you in place, and keeps you loving, recommending and discussing that piece for...
by McKenzie | Aug 3, 2014 | Fiction, Reviews
After reading Désirée Zamorano’s The Amado Women, many readers have claimed to have found a new story with women who are more properly, culturally portrayed, an interesting story which offers new commentary on the larger themes of love and loss, family and...
