Category: ARC
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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.
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Review: Tangled Up In You by Christina Lauren (Release 06/25/2024)
The adaptation of Tangled is fun and enjoyable. I love the mix of Ren’s brilliant mind and her complete inexperience in the real world.
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Review: A Happier Life by Kristy Woodson Harvey (Release 06/25/2024)
I didn’t want to put this book down. The story has a mystery, love stories, work drama and family drama. What more can you ask for in one book?
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Review: Icon and Inferno by Marie Lu (Release 06/11/2024)
Icon and Inferno tries to be more angsty and emotionally devastating, than it’s predecessor, which is a major shift in a series created to counter the negativity present in the everyday world.
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Review: Summer Romance by Annabel Monaghan (Release 06/04/2024)
Summer Romance absolutely lives up to its title. This was a delightful, quick, uplifting romance. I appreciated the maturity of these characters and that they had real lives that were allowed to be actual considerations in their romance.