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…
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…
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,…
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…
The problem with some Spooky Saturday topics is that they’re just so expansive. There are some topics that I want to delve into, and the reality of it is, it’s such a huge topic that it could make its own sub-series in and of itself. Skinwalker Ranch is one of those topics, but I’m going…
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.…
I finished this book this weekend and was just quietly freaking out about how much I liked it and I promise you, if you even remotely like spooky things, you are going to want to read this book. Allow me to expound a little. Wonderland is the horror/psychological thriller novel from local-to-me author Zoje Stage, who hails from…
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,…