The Art of Reading

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  • Mini Reviews: Frontera & Clementine and Danny Save the World

    Mini Reviews: Frontera & Clementine and Danny Save the World

    Thank you to Harper360YA for providing me with ARCs of these two! I really enjoyed this debut graphic novel! It follows a boy named Mateo as he braves the dangerous journey through the Sonoran desert back home to the United States. For being such a short book the story was very well developed and I…

  • July Wrap-Up 2023!

    July Wrap-Up 2023!

    Welcome to another wrap-up post! I know I’ve been quiet this month but traveling and university prep has kept me extremely busy! I didn’t quite get to all the books I was hoping to read this month, especially the summer themed ones, but there’s still hope for August! Books Read: I need to get better…

  • Review: A Warning About Swans

    Review: A Warning About Swans

    ~Summary~ Hilde and her five sisters were dreamed into existence by their father, the god Odin, and when they came of age, each were given a cloak imbued with a unique gift and granted the power to transform into swans. But Hilde despises her gift of ferrying the souls of dying animals to the afterlife…

  • June Wrap-Up 2023!

    June Wrap-Up 2023!

    Another month has come to an end and some great news, I think I’m finally out of my reading slump! I don’t want to speak too soon but over the past month I looked forward to reading at any spare moment and I’ve been enjoying some slower paced books that I know, had I read…

  • Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

    Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

    ~Summary~ January Scaller grew up as the ward of Mr. Locke, a wealthy man who collects curiosities from around the world. His sprawling mansion is the only home January has ever known since her father, who travels year-round, left her in Mr. Locke’s care. When January gets word that her father is missing and around…

  • Get To Know Me: Bookish Edition

    Get To Know Me: Bookish Edition

    These questions were taken from @sara.likesbooks on Instagram 🙂 Favorite/Least Favorite Genres: My favorite genre right now is dystopian but I can always count on enjoying a good historical fiction as well! My least favorite genre is sci-fi. If the story is about humans and just happens to be set in space, I’m usually okay…

  • Review: Boundless edited by Ismée Amiel Williams and Rebecca Balcárcel

    Review: Boundless edited by Ismée Amiel Williams and Rebecca Balcárcel

    ~My Thoughts~ Thanks to Harper360YA for providing me with an ARC! This book had been on my radar for awhile so I was thrilled to receive an arc! The topic is one that I relate to a lot. Being a 1/4 Mexican and 3/4 Caucasian, I struggle with the idea that is pushed on mixed…

  • May Wrap-Up 2023!

    May Wrap-Up 2023!

    How are we halfway through this year already?! I can’t even begin to wrap my head around that. The good thing though is summer is here!! Well, in London I guess you could say it’s more like spring, but you can be sure that I’ve been watching a TON of summer reading vlogs to get…

  • Review: The Forest of Stolen Girls

    Review: The Forest of Stolen Girls

    ~Summary~ As children, Hwani and her sister Maewol went missing in the forest nearby to their village, later reappearing unconscious at the scene of a murder with no recollection of how they got there. When years later the girl’s father, Detective Min, learns that more girls have gone missing in the same forest, he sets…

  • Review: Invictus by Ryan Graudin

    Review: Invictus by Ryan Graudin

    ~Summary~ Farway Gaius McCarthy is an anomaly, he was born outside of time and has never felt comfortable standing still. Part of this is due to the fact that when he was younger, his mother left on a time-travel expedition and never returned. Now he’s been given the chance of the lifetime, to captain a…