Bruised by Tanja Boteju 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 TW: Self-harm, emotional abuse, parental death, grief Ever since her parents' deaths in a horrifying car accident, Daya has pushed the world away. She's repressed her feelings, choosing physical pain over grief, using bruises to push down her underlying guilt. Until she's introduced to the world of roller derby, and … Continue reading Book Review: Bruised
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Book Review: The Unbroken
The Unbroken by CL Clark 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 I highly recommend reading Your Tita Kate's review, which is just phenomenal. She was their pet. And she'd be a well-dressed one, but she'd dance all the same. Touraine is a conscript, torn from her home as a child and sent into the army of her enemy. For over … Continue reading Book Review: The Unbroken
Upcoming YA Contemporary Fiction, April-June 2021
Holy moly there are a lot of contemporary YA releases coming out next quarter that I am dying to read. Speaking of dying, check out everything coming out on May 25th and June 1st, and join me in mourning my TBR's now deceased state. If you're like, eh that's not that many releases during those … Continue reading Upcoming YA Contemporary Fiction, April-June 2021
Top Ten Tuesday: Spring 2021 TBR
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. Considering I just posted about my most anticipated YA and … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Spring 2021 TBR
Upcoming SFF YA Fiction, April-June 2021
Check out some of my most anticipated YA SFF releases for the second quarter of the year! There are so many! And so many look fantastic! While there are some releases by favorites like Akemi Dawn Bowman, Brittney Morris, Charlie Jane Anders, and Naomi Novik, there are some new (and also new to me) authors … Continue reading Upcoming SFF YA Fiction, April-June 2021
Book Review: Can’t Take That Away
Can't Take That Away by Steven Salvatore 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Assault, Misgendering, Homophobia, Transphobia, Car Accident, Family Death Respect My Existence or Expect My Resistance Carey Parker dreams of being a diva. They have the talent. They have the voice. But they're scared—of rejection, of homophobic and transphobic assholes—and they are dealing with a lot … Continue reading Book Review: Can’t Take That Away
Top Ten Tuesday: Spring Cleaning!
Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. I am so excited for this prompt! Not because my … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Spring Cleaning!
Book Review: Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Eve Brown is going nowhere. After a disastrous attempt at planning a wedding for a bridezilla (where it actually went fairly well save for the bridezilla and Eve's freeing of very expensive, very starved doves), Eve is ready for a new start. Take fourteen or fifteen. … Continue reading Book Review: Act Your Age, Eve Brown
Upcoming SFF, April-June 2021
I'm so excited about all of these new releases!!! There are so many amazing adult science fiction and fantasy releases coming out in 2021, and I feel that the bulk of my most anticipated releases are in the second quarter of the year. *cracks knuckles* I will read them all. Blurbs are from Goodreads April … Continue reading Upcoming SFF, April-June 2021
Book Review: Dead Space
Dead Space by Kali Wallace 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: claustrophobia, murder, PTSD We always had a choice. It was just that the companies we worked for were very good at making sure all of our choices were bad ones. Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. She was going to be a colonist … Continue reading Book Review: Dead Space
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