I meant to post this in June. If I had a list of things I meant to do, it would be...incredibly long. But I'm posting this now, and even though it's kinda almost in the first half of July, I'm considering it a win. There are a lot of really fun looking YA books coming … Continue reading 35 YA Releases, July-September 2022
Tag: young adult
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Was Excited to Read and…Haven’t
Insert grimace face emoji here. fyi, laser levelers are the BEST cat toys I enter book world with the best of intentions. I see a book, I fully intend to read it, it's probably one of my most hyped books of the year and then it just...sits there. Either taking up storage on my kindle … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Was Excited to Read and…Haven’t
Book Review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher 🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲/5 Fourteen-year-old Mina never meant to get arrested. In fact, she shouldn't have been arrested at all. She was the one who found the body of the girl in her aunt's bakery, but because Mina is a wizard (does being able to magic bread even count … Continue reading Book Review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T Kingfisher
Book Review: Squire by Sara Alfageeh & Nadia Shammas
Squire by Sara Alfageeh & Nadia Shammas 🌲🌲🌲🌲/5 All her life, Azia has dreamed of being a knight of the Bayt-Sajji Empire. Never mind the empire is not as great as it once was, or that she is a member of the Ornu people, who have been turned into scapegoats for the Empire's woes. Azia … Continue reading Book Review: Squire by Sara Alfageeh & Nadia Shammas
Top Ten Tuesday: Dynamic Duos
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. Okay, I'm going to willfully misinterpret this prompt to mean dynamic duologies, … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Dynamic Duos
Book Review: Travelers Along the Way
Travelers Along the Way by Aminah Mae Safi 🌲🌲🌲🌲/5 Rahma al-Hud has followed her sister Zeena from their homeland to the heart of the Crusades. Ordered to flee before the city they are defending falls to the Faranji invaders and is sacked, Rahma is almost relieved to go home...except Zeena refuses. There are still battles … Continue reading Book Review: Travelers Along the Way
Book Review: Forward March by Skye Quinlan
Forward March by Skye Quinlan 🌲🌲🌲🌲/5 Harper McKinley is a band geek and damned proud of it. She's one of the best (and most dedicated) members of her private boarding school's band, and with her senior year in full swing, nothing is going to stop her from having a great time. Except her conservation Republican … Continue reading Book Review: Forward March by Skye Quinlan
Upcoming YA, January-March 2022
Just when I thought I would never catch up (what a laughable thought, right?) on the 2020 releases, suddenly 2022 is right around the corner and I'm left in a panic. First of all, what the fuck happened to 2021? Second of all, 2022?! Where are the flying cars I was promised? What happened to … Continue reading Upcoming YA, January-March 2022
Book Review: Year of the Reaper
Makiia Lucier 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Cas has finally come home, three years after his capture and imprisonment by the enemy. But home no longer looks the same. Everywhere has been ravaged by the Plague that devastated the world, leaving no one untouched by its horrors. The war is over as well, and the king has married the … Continue reading Book Review: Year of the Reaper
Three Mini Reviews: Vespertine, Any Sign of Life, and Terciel & Elinor
Am I combining these three book reviews because I am a) woefully behind on my ARC reviews b) attempting to do a themed friday thingy c) feeling lazy or d) all of the above? If you selected d, then congrats! So what do these three books have in common besides being speculative fiction young adult … Continue reading Three Mini Reviews: Vespertine, Any Sign of Life, and Terciel & Elinor
The Suspected Bibliophile 