Trigger Warnings: emotional abuse, physical abuse, bullying The Dangerous Art of Blending In is, on paper, my cup of tea. It’s an #ownvoices book, with some heavy and emotional themes, and I thought that I would love it more than I actually did. I enjoyed the story and themes but I couldn’t really engage with it as […]
I don’t think I’ve ever come across a science-fiction novel with a concept similar to Honor Among Thieves. (I know a historical steampunk, Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld, that comes to mind, but with the barest of similarities.) So what makes this book stand out from the rest? I would have to say… its intriguing concept of aliens. […]
I enjoyed Ink, Iron, and Glass! It comes off as a bit of a quieter historical fantasy, but it promises nonstop adventure and a cast of delightful characters that work together to pretty much save the world. The setting was pretty extraordinary: we’re looking at the Victorian era of Italy, around the late 1800’s, where […]
We’re so used to seeing Batman as an adult, fighting crime from behind the shadows of Gotham City. That’s why I was so excited to read Batman: Nightwalker, that follows Bruce Wayne as an 18 year old teenager. As this is an origin story, we don’t see the caped crusader at all in this book, or his […]
I enjoy reading Kasie West’s contemporary YA novels but I do have to admit that her last two have not been stellar. I was excited, yet skeptical about Love, Life, and the List and it was a little better than I expected. Here are the things that I loved about the book and some things that I […]
What does a teenage genius and a guy who loves magic tricks have in common? In The Secret Science of Magic, both Sophia and Joshua don’t have a clue what they want to do once they finish high school. I haven’t read a book featuring a genius with an eidetic memory before, particularly in a […]
The best word that I can use to describe Here We Are Now is ‘disappointing’. I absolutely loved Jasmine Warga’s debut novel, My Heart and Other Black Holes, and was highly anticipating this second novel. Sadly, it failed to hit the emotional heights of her debut novel and didn’t really live up to the good concept of the book. […]
If There’s No Tomorrow is my very first Jennifer L. Armentrout novel and I have to say that I was expecting a little bit more from it. The story touches on some important issues but overall, I found it to be a bit cliched and forced and I didn’t find any of the characters to be […]
This book follows Merit, a girl with depression and anxiety but she doesn’t know she has it. She constantly stresses about the secrets and the lies from her quirky family who lives in a church, and takes the weight of everything on board her shoulders. The start of the book definitely pulled me in, when […]