Book Review: The Witch Stone by Jasmine Hong

Book Review: The Witch Stone by Jasmine Hong

Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Fantasy Publisher: NineStar Press Publication Date: March 12, 2018 Disclaimer: I received a free eARC copy of this from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. With the court brutally murdered and his ex-boyfriend the only survivor, Cal has to somehow deliver the lodestone to the new Lord while managing to survive […]

Book Review: The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

Book Review: The Last Equation of Isaac Severy by Nova Jacobs

Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Cozy Mystery, Literature & Fiction Publisher: Touchstone Publication Date: March 6, 2018 Disclaimer: Thank you to Touchstone for an ARC copy of this. What follows are my honest, unbiased (and sometimes random?) thoughts. Remember that class you hated in high school? Well, this is a whole book full of it, written to […]

Book Review: Grey Stone by Jean Knight Pace and Jacob Kennedy

Book Review: Grey Stone by Jean Knight Pace and Jacob Kennedy

Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Ink Smith Publishing Publication Date: July 22, 2016 The race of wolves have ruled the kingdom mercilessly for many thousands of years, walking all over the dogs and humans that live there, but is equality really worth fighting for, with everything that would be lost? When a dog […]

Book Review: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Book Review: The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Rating: ★★★★★ Genre: Fantasy, Teens & Young Adults Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Publication Date: January 2, 2018 Imagine a Grimm’s Fairy Tale with Dark Fae and changelings and lots of stabbing, death, secrets, and manipulation. The Cruel Prince is everything you could want in a dark fantasy with enough twists to keep […]

Why Adults Do (And Should) Read YA

Why Adults Do (And Should) Read YA

Posted February 21, 2018 in chat with me, young adult / 26 Comments

There comes a time in everyone’s life when change is required. We’re no longer allowed to go in our pants, even if it’s more convenient and the toilet is waaaaay over there. We can’t have imaginary friends anymore, because then people think we’re crazy. We’re told we should stop believing in silly things and come to […]

Book Review: Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

Book Review: Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire

Rating: ★★★☆☆ Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: January 9, 2018 This is book three in the Wayward Children series. Click here for my review of Every Heart a Doorway. Click here for my review of Down Among the Sticks and Bones. Nothing in this book makes sense, in the best possible ways, as Rini […]

Book Review: Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Book Review: Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Rating: ★★★★☆ Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Tor Publication Date: June 13, 2017 This is book two in the Wayward Children series. Click here for my review of Every Heart a Doorway. The same Jack and Jill from the nursery rhyme, only older, darker, both female, and living in a world that threatens to destroy them. Jacqueline […]