Now that it’s time for the January OwlCrates to get sent out, I figured it’s high time I go ahead and share my December unboxing, for any of you who are looking for some cute bookish merch or are just curious about what was in the box for the month of December! The theme for…
Book Review: Spellbook of the Lost & Found by Moira Fowley-Doyle
I usually try to be at least somewhat eloquent and, at the very least, coherent in my book reviews, but this book just made me want to yell OH MY GOD EVERYONE READ THIS NOW. Of course, I totally understand that you may want to know a bit more than that, so don’t worry. I…
Book Review: Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour
Everything Leads To You is a YA contemporary by Nina LaCour. I actually recently discovered Nina LaCour when I read her novel We Are Okay (review here, by the way) and fell madly, deeply, and instantly in love with her writing. As soon as I finished reading that book, I said to myself, well, okay, now…
Book Review: A Map for Wrecked Girls by Jessica Taylor
Have you ever gotten in a fight with someone while you were in a car together, and then you had to just sit there with them…trapped…unable to go anywhere else and forced to either work through your issues or tear each other’s heads off? This book is basically that feeling, multiplied by about a thousand.…
The Book Lover Survival Tag
The funniest thing happened today: I was on Goodreads, browsing through the YA books slated for release in August, and I found myself really drawn to A Map for Wrecked Girls by Jessica Taylor, a YA novel about two sisters stranded on an island with only each other and a young man named Alex. It…
Book Review: Eliza and Her Monsters by Francesca Zappia
Strap in, y’all. I can already tell this is going to be a long one. I recently finished reading Eliza and Her Monsters, a contemporary YA novel by Francesca Zappia. Eliza and Her Monsters centers on the titular character of Eliza. Online, Eliza is LadyConstellation, the creator of the famous webcomic Monstrous Seas, with millions…
Book Review: One Was Lost by Natalie D. Richards
One Was Lost is a YA survival thriller/mystery written by Natalie D. Richards which was published in 2016. It centers on four teenagers who are on a camping trip with a group from their school when, long story short, things go terribly wrong. The novel centers mainly on four main characters—Sera, Lucas, Emily, and Jude. While…