Category: ARC
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Review: Coldwire by Chloe Gong (Release 11/04/2025)
2010s style dystopia is back! Chloe Gong continues to be unbeatable in her YA novels. This book is best enjoyed going in as blind as possible. I immediately wanted to re-read the book once I finished and put it down.
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Review: Girls Who Play Dead by Joelle Wellington (Release 11/04/2025)
There was a really interesting story here. Nasim and Mikky were cute, but so much of their relationship was spent having the same argument. Kayla seemed to be the only one who cared about Erin for Erin.
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Review: Red City by Marie Lu (Release 10/14/2025)
Marie Lu has brought her talent for richly developed worlds, with characters you can’t help but cheer on, and irresistible relationships to an adult audience.
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Review: The Macabre by Kosoko Jackson (Release: 09/09/2025)
This book thrives in the shades of grey within the world and all of us.
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Review: Smile For the Cameras by Miranda Smith (Release 06/24/2025)
This book was so much fun. I flew through this book, and I think it makes for a great fun summer scare, or an awesome book to read to kick off spooky season this fall.
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Review: The Love Haters by Katherine Center (Release 5/20/2025)
George Bailey and Rue are the highlights of this book and bring much-needed humor and lightness to the story. Rue and her Gals felt vibrantly real, and I loved the depiction of female friendship through them.
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Review: The Corruption of Hollis Brown by K. Ancrum (Release 04/22/2025)
This book is full of such tenderness and I’m so glad that teens will have it. This is a story about community, and how survival depends on having a community around you.
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Review: Boys With Sharp Teeth by Jenni Howell (Release 04/08/2025)
I wish I had gone in blind on anything beyond the title with this one. This group of friends are obsessive and twisted, even before adding the paranormal elements towards the end.
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Review: Prince of the Palisades by Julian Winters (Release 08/20/2024)
Overall this was a really sweet love story with a love interest after my own film-nerd heart, while also navigating how we all negotiate with the intersections of our identities and choose how we want to be seen existing in the world.
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Review: The Book of Elsewhere by Keanu Reeves and China Miéville (Release: 07/23/2024)
The Book of Elsewhere is a somewhat mind-bending book. I happily let myself simply be pulled along by the story, since it’s a complex non-linear path from beginning to end.