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  • Review: Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray

    Review: Beasts of Prey by Ayana Gray

    Summary (from Goodreads): “Magic doesn’t exist in the broken city of Lkossa anymore, especially for girls like sixteen-year-old Koffi. Indentured to the notorious Night Zoo, she cares for its fearsome and magical creatures to pay off her family’s debts and secure their eventual freedom. But the night her loved ones’ own safety is threatened by…

  • Review: The Stranded by Sarah Daniels

    Review: The Stranded by Sarah Daniels

    My Thoughts: I bought this one after seeing the author speak on a dystopian panel at YALC last year but had put off reading in until now. I finally picked it up coming off the high of another dystopian I read and loved so maybe my expectations were just too high but regardless this one…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Review: A Pho Love Story by Loan Le

    Review: A Pho Love Story by Loan Le

    ~My Thoughts~ I didn’t know a whole lot about this book going in, but when I saw Romeo and Juliet with rival Vietnamese restaurants, I knew I had to read it! And though this wasn’t the most polished book I’ve ever read, I still enjoyed it. What I mean by not the most polished was,…

  • Review: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

    Review: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

    ~Summary~ Najwa has just walked into her first Scrabble tournament since the death of her best friend Trina. She’s hoping that playing again will help her to move on, and that by winning she can reclaim Trina’s title ‘Queen of the Tiles’. But she’s not the only one seeking victory. Now that Trina’s seat as…

  • Review: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

    Review: Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

    ⭐⭐⭐⭐ ~My Thoughts~ I have a confession to make. I started watching the TV show before I read this book 🫣 I thought it wouldn’t matter and that I’d still be able to enjoy all that the book had to offer but I ended up playing the comparison game between the two. And it didn’t…