My post is going up a little later than usual, but I’m happy to still be able to post this on the first Monday of the month! I’ve been very busy lately, and sadly wasn’t able to prep this post in advance. But I’m glad to still be able to post, especially since this month’s… Read More Calendar Girls (October 2018): Hocus Pocus (Best Book with Witches)
Welcome to a world where nightmarish creatures reign supreme. Five hundred years ago, Jack made a deal with the devil. It’s difficult for him to remember much about his mortal days. So, he focuses on fulfilling his sentence as a Lantern—one of the watchmen who guard the portals to the Otherworld, a realm crawling with every nightmarish creature imaginable.… Read More The Lantern’s Ember by Colleen Houck (Review)
Happy Friday Junior, and Backlist Blast day! Today I decided to feature a backlisted book that I’ve been wanting a copy of ever since it was announced. Well, I recently won a gift card, and decided to finally buy The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo for myself with that gift card! Yay! I liked the Grisha… Read More Backlist Blast #19: The Language of Thorns by Leigh Bardugo
This is the second month that Calendar Girls has been back now, and I couldn’t be happier! This blog event has gone through some changes though. The hostesses have changed entirely from Melanie and myself, to our friends (and former Calendar Girls participants) Katie @ Never Not Reading and Adrienne @ Darque Dreamer Reads! I’m so… Read More Calendar Girls (September 2018): Back to School (Best Novel Set in a School)
A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era… Read More Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood (ARC Review)
I absolutely loved Roshani Chokshi’s full novels The Star-Touched Queen (my review) and A Crown of Wishes (my review), so when the first short story in this collection, “Death and Night” came out as a novella last May, I was all over it. I won’t go into that story in this review, because I wrote a full review… Read More Star-Touched Stories by Roshani Chokshi (eARC Review)
Adeluna is a soldier. Five years ago, she helped the magic-rich island of Grace Loray overthrow its oppressor, Argrid, a country ruled by religion. But adjusting to postwar life has not been easy. When an Argridian delegate vanishes during peace talks with Grace Loray’s new Council, Argrid demands brutal justice—but Lu suspects something more dangerous is at work… Read More These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch (ARC Review)
Welcome to my Indigo Teen Staff Pick of the Month blog post for August 2018! If you’ve been following my Instagram, you might have noticed that I’ve been posting about the Indigo Teen Staff Picks since November of 2017. But I didn’t talk about the picks on this blog before January 2018 (for some reason)! Continue… Read More Indigo Teen Staff Pick of the Month: August 2018
Calendar Girls is back! It has gone through some changes though. The hostesses have changed entirely from Melanie and myself, to our friends (and former Calendar Girls participants) Katie @ Never Not Reading and Adrienne @ Darque Dreamer Reads! I’m so happy that these ladies were able to adopt this monthly blog event and give… Read More Calendar Girls (August 2018): Dog Days of Summer (Best Novel Set in Summer)
Title: When Life Gives You Demons Authors: Jennifer Honeybourn Type: Fiction Genre: YA, Fantasy, Paranormal, Demons Publisher: Swoon Reads Date published: July 17, 2018 A physical copy of this book was kindly provided by Raincoast Books, in exchange for an honest review. Sixteen-year-old Shelby Black has spent the past year training to be an exorcist. Her… Read More When Life Gives You Demons by Jennifer Honeybourn (ARC Review)