If you've been with me for a while, you are probably familiar with a lovely dystopian novel, Mayfly, that I started screaming about in 2018. I reviewed it for Rockstar Book Tours, Teenreads, and it ended up making my SheReads top YA 2018 reads, it was that amazing! So you bet your stabby little bottoms [...]
"How can we fight prejudices if we do nothing to change it? If we allow it to fester, what's the point?" It’s official. I will read anything @tjklunebooks writes. ANYTHING!!! This book. THIS BOOK!!! On the cover, @seananmcguire is quoted as saying, “This book is very close to perfect.” And YES!!! I laughed! I cried! Often on the same [...]
You've been accepted to assassin school. But to graduate, you have to survive.
"Nina had broken the cardinal rule, and now she had to kill someone." With an opening sentence like that, I'm sure you can see why I went full grabby hands to get this novel. Then they added mercenary librarians as the series name, and like destiny, this book was mine. I am going to start [...]
"Was it possible for a house to be abandoned and still have four people living in it?" On the surface, Tigers, Not Daughters is a ghost story. But that's just on the surface. Yes, there are ghosts haunting the Torres sisters, but the examination in this story of what it means to be haunted goes [...]
Once again, Rockstar Book Tours is back at it. This time with a surprising time capsule, taking us all the way back to the Roaring 20's. Before we get into the book, we need some definitions. First, let's define swears. Second. Define nice. Then remember that this book was printed 90 years ago, so it [...]
"Merlin loved magic, but sometimes it was unmistakably the worst." Once & Future was one of my favorite reads last year. The imagination of putting the legend of King Arthur in space with a diverse set of knights and a girl as King was genius. I loved every single twist and turn and thought the [...]
"Labels come with assumptions. They assume the bad kids are always monsters, and the good ones never are." If one quote can summarize a book so poetically while also holding back so much, it's this one. Read it, and then read it again, and then assume that you're going to make assumptions while reading only [...]
"What a thing an oil boom is for a town. It brings in the very best sort of psychopath." Be warned from the start, this book is a difficult journey to embark on. The plot is centered around a violent rape and the ramifications that violence carries with it. And while the topic is handled [...]
As I've journeyed on my quest for immortality, I've become very aware that maintaining my health is vital in the years to come. I mean, what's the point of figuring out how to live forever if I can't enjoy it?! And one of the best things to ensure your body and mind stay forever young [...]
