I read this book several months ago, but needed time to digest the sheer magic it brought into my life. I’ve always had a soft spot for teen novels that can pass for adult fiction and this one is certainly one of them ! Here, Frances Hardinge delivers a vibrant world-building in this spellbinding fantasy adventure of gods, deep-sea creatures and pirates. The inventiveness and richness of the descriptions will allow you to live a thousand stories in one. I loved the gentle, ambivalen…

James is a gripping retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in which Jim is the main character. This time, the story is told by the runaway slave’s point of view, and Percival Everett, far from what Twain presupposed, gives Jim the depth of character that was erased in the first novel. With James, Everett gives a proud voice to one of the few Black characters in classic literature, underlining his complex personality and the painful life of a runaway slave in the southern states of Ame…