Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Nova is perfectly happy living with her grandmothers and working in their New England bookstore—until she follows a white wolf into the woods and discovers her childhood crush, Tam. But Tam has been chasing a particularly nasty demon, and they're going to need all the help they … Continue reading Book Review: Mooncakes
Book Review: The Unhoneymooners
The Unhoneymooners by Christina Lauren 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 When everyone at her twin sister's wedding gets food poisoning from the buffet but Olive and her brother-in-law's odious brother, Ethan, it looks like everything is about to unravel. Recently laid off from her job, Olive is looking for a win—and when her sister presses her to go on … Continue reading Book Review: The Unhoneymooners
Book Review: Shatter the Sky
Shatter the Sky by Rebecca Kim Wells 🌺🌺/5 When Maren's girlfriend Kaia is taken by the Aurati to join their evil ranks, Maren decides to save her girlfriend the only way she knows how—by infiltrating the emperor's dragon fortress, stealing a dragon, and then storming the Aurati stronghold. It's impossible, but Maren is determined to … Continue reading Book Review: Shatter the Sky
Book Review: Spin the Dawn
Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Maia is the greatest tailor the world has ever seen—she just needs the chance to prove herself. The only problem is that women can't be tailors. When the emperor's minister arrives to force her father into a tailoring competition for the next imperial tailor, Maia seizes her chance. … Continue reading Book Review: Spin the Dawn
Book Review: The City in the Middle of the Night
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders 🌺🌺🌺.5 (3.5/5) The planet of January is tidally locked, with one side always facing the day, the other facing the night. In the narrow band of twilight humans live in the authoritarian Xiosphant, where waking and sleeping and strictly regimented and everyone knows … Continue reading Book Review: The City in the Middle of the Night
Top 10 Tuesday: Auto Buy Authors
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. Last week I accidentally mixed up July 2nd and July 9th's dates. Whoops. This is such a hard prompt. Mostly because I'm cheap, and also because I'm very picky. So I suppose I'm going to add … Continue reading Top 10 Tuesday: Auto Buy Authors
Sci Fi Friday: Cinderella
It's been a bit since I've posted a Sci Fi Friday update, and I want to do a quick series on fairy tales, starting with Cinderella and working my way through some of the more popular fairy tales. I love fairy tales, particularly retold fairy tales or cracked fairy tales. As a kid, I ate … Continue reading Sci Fi Friday: Cinderella
Book Review: This is How You Lose the Time War
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 ALL THE STARS!! I'm not sure if I'm reeling from that ending or how the entire book wove and threaded and braided its way into my heart and soul, and how I fell hard for Red and Blue and their long games. It all … Continue reading Book Review: This is How You Lose the Time War
Book Review: With the Fire on High
With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 What follows is my terrible, awful, no good review because 1) I have no words to describe this amazing book and 2) Elizabeth Acevedo's writing is like Emoni's cooking: brilliant and beyond words. Emoni Santiago has a lot on her plate—juggling school, a part time job … Continue reading Book Review: With the Fire on High
Top 10 Tuesday: Childhood Favorites
Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. Last week I accidentally mixed up July 2nd and July 9th's dates. Whoops. Last week, I saw a lot of people posting their favorite picture books and honestly I can't remember what picture books I loved—although … Continue reading Top 10 Tuesday: Childhood Favorites
The Suspected Bibliophile 