Okay, so aside from all three being fantasy (Iron Widow is science fiction, it's a stretch, I'm going for it), and the fact that The Last Graduate is adult not YA (surprise!), these three are in a review together for two reasons: 1) I am behind and have been procrastinating on these reviews and need … Continue reading Three Mini Reviews: Bad Witch Burning, Iron Widow and The Last Graduate
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Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Made Me Smile
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. Oh, this prompt! I'm going to go with comfort/cozy reads … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Made Me Smile
Book Review: Under the Whispering Door
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 It took you dying to find your humanity. It's hysterical if you think about it. Wallace Price was not, in his mind, a bad man. He liked nice suits. He was dedicated to his work. So what if his employees were scared shitless of his overbearing ways? … Continue reading Book Review: Under the Whispering Door
September 2021 TBR
It's fucking fall! Yes, I am a basic bitch in that I love fall (pumpkin spice, however, is a flavor that makes me mildly nauseous, so I leave it to the lovers of that beverage/flavor/lifestyle). The leaves changing (when I live in a place where that happens), the season turning chilly (again, when I live … Continue reading September 2021 TBR
Graphic Sapphic Werewolves: Artie and the Wolf Moon, and Squad
What's better than one graphic novel about a queer girl becoming a werewolf? Two graphic novels about sapphic werewolves! That's right: there are two kick ass graphic novels about queer girls of color who just happen to ~become~ quite hairy every so often. Ugh these were both too cute! Squad is young adult, and Artie … Continue reading Graphic Sapphic Werewolves: Artie and the Wolf Moon, and Squad
Book Review: The King of Faerie
The King of Faerie by AJ Lancaster 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Hetta and Wynn battle time and the will of their friends, family and foes to get married, become accepted into society, and figure out their respective magics. If only things were that easy. Because Hetta is pregnant, and her baby has the magic of human and fae—a … Continue reading Book Review: The King of Faerie
Book Review: This Poison Heart
This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Briseis has a gift: she can grow entire plants from next to nothing. It's a gift she's had to tamp down and keep secret, because plants like her and she doesn't want another Incident to happen. She's down for chilling through a quiet summer in the city—working at … Continue reading Book Review: This Poison Heart
Book Review: She Who Became the Sun
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Lady Rui's jaw was tight with the same intensity Zhu had glimpsed earlier: a compressed rage that had at its heart the female desire to survive all that sought to make her nothing. Zhu was born in a small, drought- and famine-stricken village. Her mother and … Continue reading Book Review: She Who Became the Sun
Two Mini Reviews: The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor and Long Distance
Two mini graphic novel reviews that I promise I will keep short and sweet! And there's a theme beyond them being two middle-grade/lower YA graphic novels, I swear. The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon Garrity 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 On a dark and stormy night, Gothic romance-obsessed Haley sees a stranger drowning in the river. Of … Continue reading Two Mini Reviews: The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor and Long Distance
Book Review: Son of the Storm
Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 If belonging to both the highest and lowest castes in the land at the same time taught one anything, it was that when people had to choose where to place a person, they would always choose a spot beneath them. Danso lives in the city of … Continue reading Book Review: Son of the Storm
The Suspected Bibliophile 