Format: ebookPublished: August 4th, 2020Age: Middle Grade – Young AdultGenre: Fantasy Rating: 4/5 Stars I really liked this. There’s an eerie element to the novel threaded in by the use of shadows and the threats hanging over our cast, and it’s just the right level for older Middle Grade and younger Young Adult readers toContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Forest of Stars by Heather Kassner”
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Book Review: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
Format: HardbackPublished: April 16th, 2024Age: Young AdultGenre: Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars Indulge me for just a moment – I ended up reading this book at the same time I was reading Hannah Whitten’s The Hemlock Queen. They’re not two books I would naturally pair together, but they do compliment one another. Both main characters haveContinueContinue reading “Book Review: To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang”
Book Review: What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez
Format: ebookPublished: October 31st, 2023Age: Young AdultGenre: Historical Fantasy Rating: 5/5 Stars I really liked Together We Burn, so I went into this expecting to enjoy it. I wasn’t disappointed. What the River Knows came out last year, but it feels like there’s a trend shifting towards books set in Egypt, pre-1900, grappling with theContinueContinue reading “Book Review: What the River Knows by Isabel Ibañez”
Back to School
I know term has been ‘in session’ for a while, but I thought as it is September and, for many, the start of the academic year, it would be fun to dive into the way different books use school settings, and why I think schools make for a great location in books, either as aContinueContinue reading “Back to School”
Book Review: An Improbable Season by Rosalyn Eves
Format: ebookPublished: April 25th, 2023Age: Young AdultGenre: Regency RomanceGoodreads Rating: 2/5 Stars Some genres/subgenres don’t translate well to Young Adult, and unfortunately I think Regency might just be one of them. For starters, Regency often does deal with young adult characters because of the historical context, and it’s also the reason you might get aContinueContinue reading “Book Review: An Improbable Season by Rosalyn Eves”
Audiobook Review: True Biz by Sara Nović
Narrated By: Lisa Flanagan, Kaleo GriffithPublisher: Little, Brown AudioAge: Young AdultGenre: Contemporary – LiteraryFormat: AudiobookPublished: April 5th, 2022Goodreads Rating: 4/5 Stars True Biz was an engaging, interesting novel about students and teachers at the River Valley School for the Deaf. Alongside the plot (we’ll get to that in a moment), there are small interludes thatContinueContinue reading “Audiobook Review: True Biz by Sara Nović”
Top Ten Tuesday: May Flowers
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This was fun! And such a great prompt, giving aContinueContinue reading “Top Ten Tuesday: May Flowers”
Book Review: Girl, Goddess, Queen by Bea Fitzgerald
Format: ebookPublished: July 20th, 2023Age: Young AdultGenre: FantasyGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars If you like pining, a touch of angst, excellent character growth and a soft, gentle Hades paired with a fierce, ambitious Persephone, do I have the book for you. You will spend this whole book yelling at the characters to just confess their feelingsContinueContinue reading “Book Review: Girl, Goddess, Queen by Bea Fitzgerald”
Book Review: The Supreme Lie by Geraldine McCaughrean
Format: ebookRelease Date: April 15th, 2021Age: Young AdultGenre: Fantasy – DystopiaGoodreads Rating: 5/5 Stars Thank you to Usborne Publishing for providing a copy of this book via NetGalley – views remain my own. This book was excellent, and I think it’s a really great example of Young Adult that doesn’t talk down to its targetContinueContinue reading “Book Review: The Supreme Lie by Geraldine McCaughrean”
Let’s Talk Bookish: What Counts as YA?
Let’s Talk Bookish is a weekly meme that was originally created and hosted by Rukky @ Eternity Books starting in August 2019, and was then cohosted with Dani @ Literary Lion from May 2020 to March 2022. Book Nook Bits has hosted since April 2022. Although I have been focusing on Blogmas for this month, I couldn’t resist today’s Let’s TalkContinueContinue reading “Let’s Talk Bookish: What Counts as YA?”
Unwrapping Words 