Many of us lovers of all things spoopy basically consider late July/early August the beginning of spoopy season (basically whenever Halloween themed merch starts hitting the shelves at At Home, it’s on, right?), so if you’re looking for thematically appropriate reads before October, you’re in luck: Penguin Teen has two spooky new books coming out…
ARC Review: Curses by Lish McBride
FINALLY, a good Beauty and the Beast retelling where the girl is the beast. Why is the girl never the beast? Is it because girls and women couldn’t possibly be beastly? Is it because women are expected to uphold a certain standard, to be perfect all the time? Is it because it’s just too unbelievable…
New Releases from Penguin Teen: The Companion by Katie Alender & Meme by Aaron Starmer
I recently read two almost-fall (let’s be serious late August/early September is pretty much fall for all us pumpkin/spooky/sweater-and-boots outfit lovers) new releases from Penguin Teen. Thank you again Penguin Teen for the ARCs in exchange for reviews! The first one was The Companion, a YA spooky horror/thriller by Katie Alender which was just released…
ARC Review: Skywatchers by Carrie Arcos (Out August 18th)
I thought a lot about how I wanted to critique this book, because sometimes I think I’m being too harsh. And sometimes I also think I’m being too generous, and I don’t want to hand out five star ratings to just anything because then does it diminish the worthiness of five star ratings? If everything…
Spooky Saturday: UFOs, The Cold War, & The Rise of Aliens in American Culture
That’s a lofty title, I know. Are we really going to cover all that? Perhaps not comprehensively, but we are definitely going to touch on it. This Spooky Saturday post is kind of a tie-in with a review of a YA novel I’m about to post. I just read an ARC of Carrie Arcos’s Skywatchers,…
ARC Review: They Wish They Were Us by Jessica Goodman (Out August 4th)
I have a juicy one for y’all today—They Wish They Were Us by debut author Jessica Goodman. Thank you so much to Penguin Teen for sending me the e-ARC of this novel in exchange for a review! This is a YA thriller due out Tuesday, August 4th (tomorrow!!!) that I think a lot of you…
ARC Review: A Wicked Magic by Sasha Laurens (Out July 28th)
First and foremost, thank you so much to Penguin Teen for sending me the e-ARC of this witchy novel. While I always appreciate the chance to work with Penguin, this one ended up not exactly being my cup of tea. However, I’ll tell you more because it’s possible it will be your cup of tea.…
ARC Review: The Unleashed by Danielle Vega (Out July 7th)
You guys probably already know I’m a little obsessed with the work of Danielle Vega, so I was beyond stoked to receive an invitation to read the eARC of her new book, The Unleashed, from Penguin Teen. Thank you again so much to Penguin Teen for sending me this one – I love YA horror,…
ARC Review: Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson (Out June 30th)
Hello, hello fellow YA readers! I’m coming at you today with a review of a soon to be released YA sci-fi novel. I know, this is exciting. Two things I always want to see more of are more YA sci-fi and more YA horror. Goddess in the Machine, by Lora Beth Johnson, follows a young…
ARC Review: My Eyes Are Up Here by Laura Zimmermann (Out June 23rd)
“My eyes are up here.” There’s a very good chance, especially if you’re a woman or a girl in today’s day and age, that you’ve uttered this phrase at some point in your life. Or at the very least, you’ve thought it. That’s exactly the case for Greer Walsh, the main character of the soon-to-be-released…