Under the Northern Lights by S.C. Stephens in many ways ended up being your typical survival/wilderness romance. What you imagine this type of story might look like is what you get…
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade – Book Review
Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade – I am actually very disappointed I didn’t like this book. It sounded like exactly the kind of story I would enjoy very much…
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum – Book Review
Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum was one of the better YA contemporaries I’ve read. The writing was non-pretentious and… not lyrical, but still kind of melodic…
Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan – Book Review
Instead of feeling like repeating the same tropes for the zillionth time, Theft of Swords by Michael J. Sullivan was more like a tribute to all the things we loved about classic epic fantasy…
Beartown by Fredrik Backman – Book Review
Beartown is a novel by Fredrik Backman that describes the reaction of townspeople to something horrible that happens in a small, isolated, hockey-obsessed town. Backman handles sensitive, difficult topics…
From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata – Book Review
From Lukov with Love by Mariana Zapata is a hate-to-friends-to-lovers slow burn contemporary romance. It follows two talented figure skaters, Jasmine Santos and Ivan Lukov, who, after years of bantering…
Skyward by Brandon Sanderson – Book Review
To become a fighter pilot and help defend her little world against the aliens is all Spensa, callsign Spin, has ever wanted. But branded the daughter of a coward…
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell – Book Review
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell is an all-consuming, thought provoking novel that explores an age-gap relationship, abuse, consent, coming of age, acceptance and long-lasting trauma. It alternates between…
The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman – Book Review
The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman is a story about a man who suddenly needs to reevaluate his own life. He needs to put everything that he’s accomplished…
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow – Book Review
The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow is one of those books I appreciate because of how different they are from what I normally read. They bring something new…
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn – Book Review
Legendborn is Tracy Deonn’s debut novel. It is a YA urban/low fantasy that retells the story of King Arthur and his knights (although it is more a continuation than retelling)