Category: four stars

The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller || Slytherin Romance

The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller || Slytherin Romance

Fantasy     Romance     Young Adult     Death     LGBTQ     Many thanks to Edewleiss and Feiwel & Friends for an eARC in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. Quotes are taken from an unfinished version and may differ from the final product. Even though I’m not generally one for romance, […]

The Wonder of Wildflowers by Anna Staniszewski || A Tale of Fitting In and Sticking Out

The Wonder of Wildflowers by Anna Staniszewski || A Tale of Fitting In and Sticking Out

Fantasy     Coming of Age     Middle Grade     Immigration     Diversity     Many thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for an eARC in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. Quotes are taken from an unfinished version and may differ from the final product. When I saw that this was […]

Mid-Grade Mini Reviews || Found Family and Sibling Love

Mid-Grade Mini Reviews || Found Family and Sibling Love

Today, I bring you not one but three fantastic mid-grade books, all for the low, low price of … your feels? Hey, nothing in life is free, okay? Sometimes, sacrifices have to be made. A little bit of feels isn’t too much to ask. The theme of the day is found family and sibling love, […]

Diamond City by Francesca Flores || Heist Trope, But With Assassins

Diamond City by Francesca Flores || Heist Trope, But With Assassins

Title: Diamond CityAuthor: Francesca FloresPublication Date: January 28, 2020Publisher: Wednesday BooksFormat: NetGalley eARC Goodreads Amazon Book Depository This summary gave me all the Six of Crow vibes, so of course I was going to read this book. The tropes are sort of similar, but instead of a heist, this is a well-planned assassin attempt where […]

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire || Breaking the “No Quest” Rule

Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire || Breaking the “No Quest” Rule

Title: Come Tumbling DownAuthor: Seanan McGuirePublication Date: January 7, 2020Series: Wayward Children #5Previous Reviews: Every Heart a DoorwayDown Among the Sticks and BonesBeneath the Sugar SkyIn An Absent DreamPublisher: TorFormat: NetGalley eARC Goodreads Amazon Book Depository I confess that I have a love/hate relationship with this series. On the one hand, Seanan McGuire’s writing and […]

The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett || YA Female Indiana Jones

The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett || YA Female Indiana Jones

Title: The Lady RogueAuthor: Jenn BennettPublication Date: September 3, 2019Publisher: Simon PulseFormat: NetGalley eARC Goodreads Amazon Book Depository This book had me at Vlad the Impaler. Everything else after that was irrelevant. To be fair, the rest sounded pretty dang good, too. Great comp titles. Female treasure-seeker. Indiana Jones vibes. A magical artifact. Mystery wrapped […]

Milton in Purgatory by Edward Vass || A Teenager Discovers The Afterlife

Milton in Purgatory by Edward Vass || A Teenager Discovers The Afterlife

Posted September 2, 2019 in book review, contemporary, four stars, humor / 6 Comments

Title: Milton in PurgatoryAuthor: Edward VassPublication Date: August 1, 2019Publisher: Fairlight BooksFormat: NetGalley eARC Goodreads Amazon Book Depository I love Dante’s Divine Comedy (which isn’t really a comedy, regardless of what the title says) and actual comedy, so a modern re-imagining of it from the point of view of a British teen? Yes, please. After […]

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry

Title: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepAuthor: H.G. ParryPublication Date: July 23, 2019Publisher: RedhookFormat: NetGalley eARC Goodreads Amazon Book Depository If I could have one superpower, it would for sure be the ability to read things out of books. I first fell in love with this idea when I started reading Inkheart, though I wasn’t […]

Soul of the Sword by Julie Kagawa

Soul of the Sword by Julie Kagawa

Title: Soul of the SwordSeries: Shadow of the Fox #2Series Reviews: Shadow of the FoxAuthor: Julie KagawaPublication Date: June 18, 2019Publisher: Inkyard PressFormat: NetGalley eARC Goodreads Amazon Book Depository Okay, I’ve run out of words here on these pages. Where’s book three now, please? Soul of the Sword takes all the things that were wonderful […]

The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff

The History of Soul 2065 by Barbara Krasnoff

Title: The History of Soul 2065Author: Barbara KrasnoffPublication Date: June 11, 2019Publisher: Mythic Delirium Books Format: NetGalley eARC Goodreads Amazon Book Depository This year, I’ve really been about reading books in new formats, and this is one that snatched my attention: a series of interconnected short stories that builds on a single premise. I tend […]