March has arrived, and I’m actually a little disappointed! Hang on, let me explain. In my part of New York, we barely got any winter. I was able to walk around in short sleeves for half of the winter, we got a few cold weeks, and we had […]
How to Excavate a Heart Thank you to YA Books Central and HarperTeen for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. You can find my YA Books Central review here. CONTENT WARNING: mention of sexual assault (off-page) It all starts when Shani […]
I finished January with 10 ARCs left to be read and 2 reviews to publish. Wow, February just flew by, and I was not ready for that to happen. I was kind of expecting it to go slowly, like January! Anyone else feel like that, or just me? […]
So I mixed up the prompts and did this week’s prompt last week, and last week’s prompt was too similar to a Friday Favorites post that I did recently, so I was kind of in a fix for this week’s TTT. Instead, I decided to revisit a previous […]
The Golem and the Jinni CONTENT WARNING: violence, death, grief, murder, enslavement, miscarriage, death of a parent, suicide Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, […]
Imogen, Obviously Thank you to Balzer + Bray and NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this ARC in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: homophobia, biphobia, pressure to come out With humor and insight, #1 New York Times bestseller Becky Albertalli explores the nuances of sexuality, identity, […]
The Family Morfawitz Thank you to Goodreads and Blackstone Publishing for sending me a copy of this book. I am providing my honest opinion voluntarily. CONTENT WARNING: violence, rape, parental abandonment, antisemitism, Holocaust imagery, murder, suicide, incest, death of a child From acclaimed author Daniel H. Turtel, winner […]
I’m definitely a sucker for the found family trope, and it is one of my all-time favorite tropes. There’s just something so heartwarming about finding a group of people who are so close that they become your family, whether you already have family and they’re absorbed into it, […]
Our Crooked Hearts CONTENT WARNING: drunk driving, blood, alcoholism, death of an animal, mention of death of a parent, grief, animal sacrifice, violence Secrets. Lies. Bad choices. Dangerous magic. . . . This is Our Crooked Hearts, a contemporary fantasy “so precise and enthralling that the only explanation […]
The Justice of Kings Thank you to Orbit and Angela Man for sending me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. CONTENT WARNING: violence, murder, gore, blood The Justice of Kings, the first in a new epic fantasy trilogy, follows the tale of Sir […]
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