QBD Reviews: Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy

For her whole life, Willowdean Dickson has been a loud and proud, self-professed fat girl. She has never felt uncomfortable in her own skin, and she’s never had any issues ignoring the boorish and taunting remarks that her teenage peers have made about her size – until she meets Bo Larson. Bo is a popular […]

QBD Reviews: Blood in the Beginning by Kim Falconer

She may have a few odd quirks, a stolen identity and a rare blood disorder, but Ava Sykes is a mostly ordinary undergraduate student, highly skilled in martial arts, who also happens to work as a bouncer for the clubs of New LA. When the new, exclusive club Poseidon pops onto the scene and she’s […]

QBD Reviews: Assassination Classroom by Yusei Matsui

Welcome to Class E. A classroom for delinquents, rebels, underachievers and failures, laughed at and mocked by the rest of the school. Oh, and did we mention their teacher is a tentacled monster that can move at Mach 20, create clones of himself and will blow up the Earth in a year? And that these […]

QBD Reviews: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E.Schwab

In a world of magic, intrigue, politics and parallel universes, Kell is one of the last surviving Antari; able to travel between the universes at will, his position in Red London is an illustrious one. Raised alongside the heir of throne, revered by the people and employed as a messenger to carry communications to the […]