The Counselors, by Jessica Goodman, comes out in just over one month and is full of summer camp killer vibes, interesting characters that you can’t quite pin down, and a twisted mystery that will keep you guessing. The Counselors follows junior camp counselor, Goldie, an eighteen-year-old who has been affiliated with Camp Alpine Lake for nearly…
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…
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,…
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…
I just finished reading Holly Jackson’s debut novel, A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, and wanted to share some thoughts, because I really think a lot of you might like this one! I’d been seeing this book around Instagram and social media for a little while now, and obviously, being a true crime junkie (seriously,…
“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…
In the U.S., some states are starting to ease quarantine restrictions, but many of us—either legally or by choice—remain locked down. So, I think it’s been long enough that we ask ourselves a very important question: what would some of our favorite fictional characters be like in lockdown? Let’s discuss. Pepper from Tweet Cute I…
So Johnathan got me Wilder Girls back in February, and after seeing it around social media for months, I was really excited to read it. I devoured it pretty quickly, and I thought it was really interesting. I was really interested in the themes of infection and the government control over the island and the…
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So some of you may remember that I absolutely loved the YA contemporary fantasy novel The Hearts We Sold by Emily Lloyd-Jones. (Some of you probably remember that mostly because I recommend it to you every chance I get and will not stop until you read it.) So when I found out that Emily was…