As someone who did not grow up reading romance, I’ve been more than impressed at the quality of the books that have won the Romance Writers of America’s RITA Award for excellence in Romance fiction. Out of over 65 books, I would say only three were subpar, and those suffered from not aging well. I […]
It might be a sign of the times we live in, but based on the premise alone, I expected Maggie Shen King’s An Excess Male to be another book for the “chilling, prescient dystopia” pile—a grim saga of a future China undone by the disastrous effects of the one-child policy that left the nation’s gender balance hopelessly […]