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…
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,…
“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…
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…
Alright, we’re going to do this, it’s time for another book review. Let’s just roll with it. I have no preamble that anyone really wants to hear, so let’s just hop right in. The Hunting Party is a murder mystery thriller by Lucy Foley published in December of 2018. And let me tell you, I…