Welcome to my monthly wrap-up post for January 2020! Just like all of 2019, January 2020 went by very quickly! It’s like I blinked and it was suddenly February 1st. I’m just gonna blame that #WorkLife, haha. What were your favourite January reads and which books are you looking forward to in the rest of… Read More Monthly Wrap-Up (January 2020)
In The Night Country, Alice Proserpine dives back into a menacing, mesmerizing world of dark fairy tales and hidden doors. Follow her and Ellery Finch as they learn The Hazel Wood was just the beginning, and that worlds die not with a whimper, but a bang… Read More The Night Country by Melissa Albert (ARC Review)
It took me a while, but here it is: My Top 10 Reads of 2019 list! Have you read any of them? And what did you think? P.s. I listed them in the order that I read them in 2019 rather than by rank or anything like that. You can also click on each book… Read More My Top 10 Reads of 2019
Welcome to my monthly wrap-up post for December 2019! I still haven’t come to terms with how quickly 2019 passed me by. What were your favourite December reads and which books are you looking forward to in 2020? If you missed my past updates/other monthly wrap-up posts, you can find them all here.
He will be destruction of the crown and the ruination of the throne. Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold onto. Jude learned this lesson when she released her control over the wicked king, Cardan, in exchange for immeasurable power. Now as the exiled mortal Queen of Faerie, Jude is powerless and left reeling from Cardan’s betrayal. She bides her time determined to reclaim everything he took from her. Opportunity arrives in the form of her deceptive twin sister, Taryn, whose mortal life is in peril… Read More The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black (Review)
Welcome to my monthly wrap-up post for November 2019! And where did November go! Seriously. I feel like I spent all month just reading, working, and waiting for my kitten to come home. Sooo somehow 2019 will be over in 31 days. Ummm. But anyway, while I come to terms with that, what were your favourite… Read More Monthly Wrap-Up (November 2019)
Seventeen-year-old Aderyn (“Ryn”) only cares about two things: her family, and her family’s graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don’t always stay dead… Read More The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones (ARC Review)
In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she’s forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soirées and—especially—to the danger. She soon becomes embroiled in the city’s glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group’s leader, the enigmatic Sébastien Saint Germain. When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in the lair of La Cour des Lions, Celine battles her attraction to him and suspicions about Sébastien’s guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret… Read More The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh (ARC Review)
Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation. Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales, and how they’ve been brought to life in 13 unique and unforgettable ways… Read More His Hideous Heart edited by Dahlia Adler (ARC Review)
Sixteen-year-old Ariadne’s whole life is curated and shared with the world. Her royal family’s entertainment empire is beloved by the tabloids, all over social media, and the hottest thing on television. The biggest moneymaker? The Labyrinth Contest, a TV extravaganza in which Ariadne leads fourteen teens into a maze to kill a monster. To win means endless glory; to lose means death. In ten seasons, no one has ever won… Read More Lifestyles of Gods & Monsters by Emily Roberson (ARC Review)