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…
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…
Let’s Call It a Doomsday is a contemporary YA written by Katie Henry and released as her sophomore novel in August of 2019, which, in pandemic terms, was actually like fourteen years ago, so it seems like it’s been out for a while, and yet it only recently surfaced on my radar. As soon as…
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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Sorcery of Thorns is a YA fantasy from Margaret Rogerson, author of the super popular (and extremely photogenic, if bookstagram is anything to go by) novel An Enchantment of Ravens. Sorcery of Thorns follows Elisabeth Scrivener (who, hello, has the coolest name ever), who has grown up in one of the Great Libraries of her…
Oh, hello, spoopy babies. It’s time for another spoopy book review. This time we are talking about The Haunted, the latest release from one of my favorite YA horror authors, Ms. Danielle Vega/Rollins (probably best known for being the author of The Merciless series). This one, like the The Merciless and Survive the Night, is…
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…
The Hearts We Sold, by Emily Lloyd-Jones, was actually the book I received in the August OwlCrate, and with all the deals with demons, supernatural creatures, and otherworldly circumstances, this book was perfect for the August theme of “Something Wicked This Way Comes”. This young adult urban fantasy novel is about Dee Moreno, a young…