A Deadly Education was one of my most highly anticipated reads, being a huge fan of Naomi Novik’s other works, but I was incredibly wary after some early controversy about the text. Featuring a dark magic school filled with witty characters, is this book going to be the next Harry Potter? Or is it going to offer […]
Because October is for creepy things and Halloween, Rules for Vanishing caught my eye as a YA horror book to pick up. Set on a creepy, mysterious path where strange things happen and people go missing, I had no idea what was in store for me as I kept on reading. So much creepiness It turns out […]
The Good Things I finally got around to one of the new Maggie Stiefvater novels! I like her books a lot. They always have really unique fantasy elements. Standalone! It was just the right length and wrapped up fairly well. Set in the 1960s, which isn’t a time period I’ve read before! This book was […]
*This review does not contain spoilers.* I really loved American Royals last year and was really looking forward to the sequel, Majesty. Unfortunately, it wasn’t the ending to the duology that I had hoped for. Now I’m pretty sure American Royals is a duology… but it’s not super clear to me, especially because of everything that happened in Majesty. My biggest […]
Reading BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) books all year round is important for boosting these voices, gaining a different perspective and also supporting these authors. In a publishing industry that is predominantly white, buying, reading & reviewing these books signals to the publishing industry that there is demand for it as well. After all, […]
I really enjoyed Jenna Guillaume’s debut novel What I Like About Me last year and was extremely excited to read You Were Made For Me, especially because the premise is straight up my alley. I’m sure we all had an idea of who our perfect guy/girl/person was growing up, but have never thought about what would happen if they […]
The concept behind Havenfall was so fascinating – it’s a magical inn between the cross-roads of 4 unique realms, and I loved that about it! I really appreciated the description of each of these realms at the start of the book as well and it was easy to refer back to it as the plot […]
Camp is a fun and summery book set at Camp Outland, a camp for queer teens, and does a great job of basically destroying toxic masculinity. Camp Outland is a place where queer teens are free to be themselves, away from the outside world where they might be hiding who they really are. The novel is […]
The Good Things A Kelley Armstrong novel! She’s one of my favourite authors and I’m terribly behind on her novels, especially her newer YA stuff. They’re all really entertaining. Standalone YA thriller. Pacing starts off nice and fast. I couldn’t put it down. The villain likes to taunt Winter and it’s really creepy and terrifying. […]