ARC review, book review, young adult

The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska (ARC Review)

Every year on St. Walpurga’s Eve, Caldella’s Witch Queen lures a boy back to her palace. An innocent life to be sacrificed on the full moon to keep the island city from sinking. Lina Kirk is convinced her brother is going to be taken this year. To save him, she enlists the help of Thomas Lin, the boy she secretly loves, and the only person to ever escape from the palace. But they draw the queen’s attention, and Thomas is chosen as the sacrifice. Queen Eva watched her sister die to save the boy she loved. Now as queen, she won’t make the same mistake. She’s willing to sacrifice anyone if it means saving herself and her city… Read More The Dark Tide by Alicia Jasinska (ARC Review)

book review, young adult

Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer (Review)

Seventeen-year-old Dayna Walsh is struggling to cope with her somatic OCD; the aftermath of being outed as bisexual in her conservative Irish town; and the return of her long-absent mother, who barely seems like a parent. But all that really matters to her is ascending and finally, finally becoming a full witch-plans that are complicated when another coven, rumored to have a sordid history with black magic, arrives in town with premonitions of death. Dayna immediately finds herself at odds with the bewitchingly frustrating Meiner King, the granddaughter of their coven leader… Read More Witches of Ash and Ruin by E. Latimer (Review)

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The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman (Review)

Uprooted from the city, Violet Saunders doesn’t have much hope of fitting in at her new school in Four Paths, a town almost buried in the woodlands of rural New York. The fact that she’s descended from one of the town’s founders doesn’t help much, either—her new neighbours treat her with distant respect, and something very like fear. When she meets Justin, May, Isaac, and Harper, all children of founder families, and sees the otherworldly destruction they can wreak, she starts to wonder if the townsfolk are right to be afraid… Read More The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman (Review)

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Calendar Girls (April 2019): April Fools: Favourite Book with a Surprise Ending

It’s time for another Calendar Girls Books post, and this month our prompt is April Foos: Favourite Book with a Surprise Ending. Once I started looking for my pick of the month, I realized that I read fewer books with surprise endings than I’d thought! So, it took me a bit to actually find one… Read More Calendar Girls (April 2019): April Fools: Favourite Book with a Surprise Ending

ARC review, blog tour, book review, young adult

Slayer by Kiersten White (Blog Tour: ARC Review & Author Written Piece)

It is such an honour to be a part of the Canadian blog tour for Kiersten White’s Slayer! Thank you so much Simon and Schuster Canada for asking me to participate and for sending me a physical ARC to read and photograph! As some of you may know, I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer when I was younger and… Read More Slayer by Kiersten White (Blog Tour: ARC Review & Author Written Piece)

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January 2019 TBR

Hello everyone! And welcome to my January 2019 TBR post! Are you ready for 2019? And what are you most excited to read in the new year! For those of you who have kept an eye on my reading progress and my TBR lists for September to December 2018 might know that I fell behind… Read More January 2019 TBR

ARC review, audiobook, book review, young adult

Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha (ARC Review)

Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this electrifying two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the original film, followed by the all-new sequel that continues the story with the next generation of Salem teens.… Read More Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel by A.W. Jantha (ARC Review)

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Top Ten Tuesday #59: Top Ten 2018 Releases That I Read In 2018

Happy Tuesday, and happy Top Ten Tuesday day, everyone! Also, Merry Christmas to those of you who celebrate! Soo, it turns out that I have to use next week’s prompt this week again (like in my last post) haha. I won’t be able to post next week, and I also don’t have any book birthdays… Read More Top Ten Tuesday #59: Top Ten 2018 Releases That I Read In 2018

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December 2018 TBR

Hello everyone! And welcome to my December TBR post! What are you most excited to read this month? So, those of you who have read my November TBR post will know that I fell behind on my reading in September because of some career changes and other stuff that was going on. Well, I didn’t… Read More December 2018 TBR