Category: YA
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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, especially the recipes woven throughout the story. I thought that the recipes as a resource for kids in situations similar to those in Hollis’s town was such a nice touch in a story about community, and how survival depends…
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Review: Boys With Sharp Teeth by Jenni Howell (Release 04/08/2025)
I wanted to love this book so badly. I’m always looking for the next book that’ll crawl into my skin like The Raven Boys did. I found the pace of this book really difficult to sink into, and was unfortunately frustrated by the mismatch between marketing/cover and the story inside. While the comparison to The…
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Review: Prince of the Palisades by Julian Winters (Release 08/20/2024)
I received an eARC of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I’ll admit that at times I was so frustrated with the character of Leon that I just wanted to put the book down, and I was deeply uncomfortable with the ways he didn’t seek consent from Jadon…
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Review: Icon and Inferno by Marie Lu (Release 06/11/2024)
I received an eARC of this novel through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This was one of my most anticipated books of the year, only below K. Ancrum’s Icarus, and I had loved Stars and Smoke, and Marie Lu’s books have all been 4 or 5 star reads for me for over a…
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Review: The Poisons We Drink by Bethany Baptiste (Release 3/26/2024)
I received an eARC of this novel from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I really enjoyed this book. Once the action starts, it never really lets go, and I definitely didn’t anticipate where this story was going from how it began. I’d happily read more of these characters, and anything…
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Review: The Forest Demands Its Due by Kosoko Jackson (Release 10/03/2023)
I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I love it when at the core of a horror story there is love, and this book absolutely delivered that. The Forest Demands Its Due is a story at its core about love and hate and the…
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Review: Your Lonely Nights Are Over by Adam Sass (Release 09/12/2023)
I received an e-ARC of this novel from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Both of the Adam Sass books I’ve read have managed to find me exactly when I needed them. I loved this book that is aptly described as Scream meets Clueless. While it mainly remains a slasher novel…
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Review: Cuckoos Three by Cassandra Jean and Mosskat (Release 08/22/2023)
I received an e-ARC of this graphic novel from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. As someone who has followed Cassandra Jean’s career for a long time now, I was so excited to finally get to see the end product of this collaboration. Murry and Jacob’s story grabbed me from the…
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Review: Darkhearts by James L. Sutter (Release 06/06/2023)
I received an eARC of this novel from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. Based on the synopsis, I’d expected Darkhearts to be a much heavier and more serious book than it was, but I was surprised to find that it was a far lighter and funnier book in reality. I really enjoyed…
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Review: Venom & Vow by Anna-Marie McLemore and Elliott McLemore (Release 05/16/2023)
I received an eARC of this novel from the publisher through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I absolutely loved this book. A.M. and Elliott’s writing voices mixed together so seamlessly, while allowing each character to feel very distinct. This book was very obviously a labor of love, and I really hope that they…