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Sep 14, 2020

Review of Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass

Some aspects of Surrender Your Sons felt deeply real and intimate, but I couldn't get past the details that didn't fit.

Sep 12, 2020

Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/12/20 Edition

01 Surrender Your Sons This summer stinks. Teenage Connor's elderly friend died, his boyfriend talked him into coming out, and now his...

Sep 9, 2020

Review of Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson

Robots, time travel, teen angst, and this gorgeous cover. Yes to all of this. I didn't anticipate the great twists Johnson provides.

Sep 3, 2020

Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now, 9/3/20 Edition

01 Goddess in the Machine 02 Beach Read 03 A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

Sep 2, 2020

Review of The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

This is charming, with quirky characters, but it felt like a middle-grade book to me.

Aug 31, 2020

Six Newish Young Adult Mysteries I Want to Read

01 I Killed Zoe Spanos I'll admit that this cover hooked me at first look, but the premise of this story is similarly irresistible. Anna...

Aug 23, 2020

Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now

Three Wackily Different Books I'm Reading Right Now 01 Dear Emmie Blue 02 Network Effect 03 The House in the Cerulean Sea

Aug 20, 2020

Six Fantastic Dystopian and Postapocalyptic Novels

01 A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World And there may be no law left except what you make of it, but if you steal my dog, you can at...

Aug 14, 2020

Review of Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power

I was frustrated by what felt like disjointed cause and effect and lack of clear motivation on the characters' parts.

Jun 20, 2020

Review of The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

Lu layers a fantastical alternate fairy world over a framework of the imagined point of view of Wolfgang Mozart’s real sister.

Apr 21, 2020

Review of The List of Things That Will Not Change by Rebecca Stead

Bea and her friends-like-family NYC network of loved ones, including her therapist Miriam, are endearing and wonderful.

Mar 5, 2020

Review of The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson

The final book in Maureen Johnson's young adult Truly Devious trilogy wraps up the story, but I missed the earlier books' banter.

Feb 5, 2020

Review of The Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden

This is the third and final book in Katherine Arden's strong, fanciful, often wonderfully dark Winternight trilogy.

Jan 17, 2020

Review of Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab

This one wasn't for me. I read half but didn't finish this second in the Monsters of Verity series. Look at that beautiful cover! I tried...

Jan 17, 2020

Review of In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan

This is the epitome of glorious young adult fantasy, but the book is truly character driven. I loved it. Oh, this book! In Other Lands is...

Jan 9, 2020

Review of Like a Love Story by Abdi Nazemian

Nazemian takes the reader to a powerful time in NYC through the experiences of characters that I cared about. Abdi Nazemian's Like a Love...

Jan 2, 2020

Review of The Grace Year by Kim Liggett

This was the type of book I could’ve stayed up all night reading. I was totally hooked. This was the type of book I could’ve stayed up...

Oct 12, 2019

Review of The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden

Vasya is an irresistibly and wonderfully strong and defiant main protagonist, and Arden includes lots of offbeat details. This second...

Jul 10, 2019

Review of A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World: A Novel by C.A. Fletcher

Young Griz is tough as nails and determined and wonderful. I thought this was fantastic.

Jun 28, 2019

Review of the Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

The first book in the Winternight trilogy, this is a Russia-set, ancient-feeling, dark fairytale of a story.

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