Reviews by Category: Fiction

Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

Title: Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls

Author: Kaela Rivera

Genre: Fantasy Fiction

Summary: Cece Rios lives with her family in a town that is mostly protected from criaturas.

However, when her sister gets taken by a powerful criatura, she takes it upon herself to get her

back. She becomes a bruja in hopes that she will be able to get her sister back. While becoming

a bruja, she makes some friends on the way.

Title: To Kill a Mockingbird

Author: Harper Lee

Genre: Southern Gothic Fiction

Brave New World, an iconic dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley has been called prophetic

for its striking predictions of the future—a future that our society seems to be approaching. Gone

are the notions of love and connections; humans are bred in labs for specific societal roles,

citizens are told to pursue relationships with multiple people solely for pleasure, and the

totalitarian government controls the populace via soma, a dangerous drug with seemingly no side

In the novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez highlights the

complexities of human relationships, feelings, and fate. This story follows the Buendia family

through the generations covering both the founding and ruin of the town of Macondo,

juxtaposing the growth and decay of the town with the family. Macondo starts isolated from other

forces but slowly grows and becomes synonymous with fortune and power. Similarly, the

In the Historical Fiction novel Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert details the tumultuous

love story between a depressed wife and an unparalleled loving husband to highlight the evil

inherent in the upper classes. The wife, Madame Bovary, is a farm girl who has spent her life

trying to be a maiden like in her childhood fairy tales and marries a country doctor, Mister

Bovary, who will do anything to satisfy her. This includes doing whatever she wants, being

In the historical fiction novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte tells the life story of the

Vengeful Heathcliff as retold by a guest of his estate after being informed by a maid who cared

for Catherine Earnshaw from young till now. A young man of unknown origins, Heathcliff grows

up the apple of his adopted father's eye, leaving the man's actual children belligerent. An

immoral relationship unwittingly forms between Heathcliff and his sister, Catherin Earnshaw, one