How to Excavate a Heart Author: Jake Maia Arlow Genre: YA Romance Publication Date: November 1, 2022 Publisher: HarperTeen 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 […]
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 Author: Helene Wecker Genre: Fantasy Publication Date: April 23, 2013 Publisher: Harper Series: The Golem and the Jinni #1 CONTENT WARNING: violence, death, grief, murder, enslavement, miscarriage, death of a parent, suicide Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to […]
Imogen, Obviously Author: Becky Albertalli Genre: YA Romance Publication Date: May 2, 2023 Publisher: Balzer + Bray 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 […]
The Family Morfawitz Author: Daniel H. Turtel Genre: Historical Fiction Publication Date: February 14, 2023 Publisher: Blackstone Publishing 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 […]
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 Author: Melissa Albert Genre: YA Horror Publication Date: June 28, 2022 Publisher: Flatiron Books 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 […]
The Justice of Kings Author: Richard Swan Genre: Fantasy Publication Date: February 22, 2022 Publisher: Orbit Series: Empire of the Wolf #1 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, […]
This week, the prompt was a genre freebie and I decided to do something completely out of character. I’ve always been a fiction reader through and through, and only read nonfiction when I absolutely had to, like when it was assigned for classes. But last year, I decided […]
