Category: four stars

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 [expand title=”Click For Goodreads Summary”] Good things don’t happen to girls who come from nothing…unless they risk everything. Fierce and ambitious, Aina Solís as sharp as her blade and as mysterious as the blood magic she protects. After the murder of her […]

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 [expand title=”Click For Goodreads Summary”] The fifth installment in Seanan McGuire’s award-winning, bestselling Wayward Children series, Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads […]

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 / 7 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 […]

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

Title: Challenger DeepAuthor: Neal ShustermanPublication Date: April 1, 2015Publisher: HarperTeenFormat: Kindle Unlimited [expand title=”Click For Goodreads Summary”] Caden Bosch is on a ship that’s headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his […]

The Color of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J. Harris

The Color of Bee Larkham’s Murder by Sarah J. Harris

Title: The Color of Bee Larkham’s MurderAuthor: Sarah J. HarrisPublication Date: June 12, 2018Publisher: AtriaFormat: Netgalley eARC [expand title=”Click For Goodreads Summary”] In the tradition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a captivating mystery about a boy with synesthesia — a condition that causes him to see colors when he hears sounds […]

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

Title: The Devouring GrayAuthor: Christine Lynn HermanPublication Date: April 2, 2019Publisher: Disney HyperionFormat: Netgalley eARC [expand title=”Click For Goodreads Summary”] Branches and stones, daggers and bones, They locked the Beast away. After the death of her sister, seventeen-year-old Violet Saunders finds herself dragged to Four Paths, New York. Violet may be a newcomer, but she soon learns […]