First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if, instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The Rules: First Lines: “Zataya of the Coyote clan was no tower-trained […]
Village in the Dark Thank you to NetGalley and Berkley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Detective Cara Kennedy thought she’d lost her husband and son in an accident, but harrowing evidence has emerged that points to murder–and she […]
Fathomfolk Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. From one of fantasy’s most exciting new voices Eliza Chan comes a modern, myth-inflected story of revolution and magic set against the glittering, semi-submerged city of […]
Bye, Baby Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: kidnapping, exploitation of person with dementia, sexual exploitation, grief, loss of a parent, sexual assault, alcoholism, murder, trauma, mention of abortion A […]
That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Human Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. When a spirited young woman with a penchant for adventure finds herself locked away in a dragon’s tower, […]
The Witch of New York: The Trials of Polly Bodine and the Cursed Birth of Tabloid Justice Thank you to NetGalley and Spotify Audiobooks for providing me with a copy of this audiobook in exchange for an honest review. Before the sensational cases of Amanda Knox and Casey […]
The Eternal Ones Thank you to NetGalley and Delacorte Press for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The dazzling finale to the groundbreaking, New York Times bestselling Gilded Ones series. One girl holds the power to defeat the gods—but can she become […]
That Time I Got Drunk and Yeeted a Love Potion at a Werewolf Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Cheesemaker Brie has the world’s worst luck in love, which is how she ends […]
The Holocaust: An Unfinished History Thank you to NetGalley and Mariner Books for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. A revelatory new history that reexamines the brutal reality of the Holocaust—and reinterprets the events as a living trauma from which […]
The Bad Ones Thank you to YA Books Central and Flatiron Books for sending me an ARC in exchange for an honest review. You can find my YA Books Central review here. CONTENT WARNING: grief, death of a parent (off-page), blood, mention of sexual assault, self-harm, bullying, toxic […]
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