Review of With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo

With stories like this, I may just become a convert to contemporary YA! Well, at least an Elizabeth Acevedo fan. I’m hoping to get Clap When You Land next month too. From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award-winning title The Poet Xcomes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride,...

Review of Avocado Bliss by Candace Robinson and Gerardo Delgadillo

Sometimes it’s great to step out of your usual genres. I’m not a huge fan of young adult contemporary, and if I’d realized that’s what this book was I might have skipped on Avocado Bliss. I would have missed out on a really sweet and charming story! Dacre Vinson has spent the majority of his...

Release day Book Blitz for The Angel of Evil by Kenneth B. Andersen @K_B_Andersen @RRBookTours1 #RRBookTours #AngelofEvil #YAFantasy

Happy book birthday to author Kenneth B. Andersen 🎉 Today marks the release of book #4, The Angel of Evil in his hugely popular series, The Great Devil War! Read on for an excerpt and a chance to win a digital copy of the book! The Angel of Evil (The Great Devil War #4) Publication...

Cozy Spotlight on Of Captivity and Kings by E.Y. Laster

The laws are different in the Kushite ruled Kingdom of Nabara. The penalty for involvement in the slave trade is death, and if the King fails to provide justice and order under ma'at, the High Priests can order him to commit suicide. When a Roman gladiator slave ship wrecks off the coast of Nabara, peace...

Buddy Read: Thoughts on Children of Blood and Bone by Toni Adeyemi

Thanks again to my buddy read partner Samantha (A Modern Witch's Bookshelf), for sending this book to my doorstep, literally!  Lol. It’s quite fitting that we chose to buddy read this one as neither of us would describe ourselves as fantasy book readers.  I’ve read a handful of fantasy and while I enjoyed them, it’s not...

Review of Happily by Chauncey Rogers

If the shoe fits, wear it. If it doesn’t, make it. Laure is a teenage street urchin just trying to get away. Where the rest of the world sees an enchanting love story, Laure sees royal incompetence and an opportunity to exploit it. She'll have wealth and a way out of a life she detests, if she...

Review of 180 Seconds by Jessica Park

So someone may have discovered a new favourite author.  I have to read another book by Jessica Park ASAP.  180 Seconds was wonderful. It was romantic, poignant, heart wrenching, funny and topical.   How can one book be all of that in just about 300 pages?! Some people live their entire lives without changing their perspective....

Review of Shadow Fall by Audrey Grey

Shadow Fall by Audrey Grey is a YA novel that can win a reader over to this genre. Sixteen-year-old Maia Graystone lives in a world of fear. Trapped inside the hellish pit below Rhine prison with psychopaths and murderers, she spends every second worrying about the brother she left behind, knowing that if the other...