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Review: The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas
Break my heart, why don’t you, Aiden Thomas? I am floored. I thought Cemetery Boys was good; this was next level. I am in love with this book. And I have to wait a whole year until the next one?! Title: The Sunbearer TrialsAuthor: Aiden ThomasGenre: YA FantasySeries: The Sunbearer Duology #1Page Count: 401 (hardcover) Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys. “Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. I’m just a Jade. I’m not a real hero.”…
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Review: Forging Silver into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer
Another review within a few weeks! Shocking, I tell you, shocking. I myself am quite surprised. Today I am reviewing Forging Silver into Stars, Brigid Kemmerer’s most recently published book. I haven’t read one of her books in a while, so I was looking forward to reading a story by her. Title: Forging Silver into StarsAuthor: Brigid KemmererGenre: YA Fantasy RomanceSeries: Forging Silver into Stars #1Page Count: 542 (hardcover) When ancient magic tests a newfound love, a dark fate beckons… Magic has been banished in the land of Syhl Shallow for as long as best friends Jax and Callyn can remember. They once loved the stories of the powerful magesmiths…
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Review: Rise to the Sun by Leah Johnson
Hey, everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. I’m getting ready to go camping tomorrow, which I’m looking forward to. This will be the only post this week until Friday, as I’ll be gone on Tuesday. Today, I have a review for one of the books I read for Pride Month! Rise to the Sun was one of my most anticipated releases for 2021. I loved Leah Johnson’s debut novel, You Should See Me in a Crown, so I had some hopes for this. Unfortunately, this book didn’t quite live up to them. Title: Rise to the SunAuthor: Leah JohnsonGenre: YA Contemporary RomanceSeries: NonePage Count: 336 (hardcover) A stunning novel…
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2022 Pride Month TBR
Happy almost Pride Month, everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. Like last year, I am planning on reading books with LGBTQ+ rep in June. As a person with a family member who is transgender, support for the LGBTQ+ community is important to me. I’m setting my TBR lower this year, so hopefully I can get through all of them. Heartstopper: Volume Three and Volume Four by Alice Oseman I finished the second volume a little while ago and I can’t wait to read the rest of them. Charlie and Nick are so perfect together. I am an adamant “book before movie/TV show” person, so I had to read the…
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Mini Reviews: The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu & How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao
Hey, everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. Today I have two mini reviews, one for The Kingdom of Back and one for How We Fall Apart. Both of these have been on my TBR for ages, and I was excited to read both of them. However, only one of them lived up to my expectations. Title: The Kingdom of Back Author: Marie Lu Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Young Adult Series: None Page Count: 313 (paperback) Born with a gift for music, Nannerl Mozart has just one wish: to be remembered forever. But even as she delights audiences with her masterful playing, she has little hope she’ll ever become the…
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Review: Counting Down with You by Tashie Bhuiyan
Hey, everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. This week has been loooooong. We have this weird schedule at school for testing, so we have extra long block period sessions, where classes are two hours long. It makes the days go by so slowly. And we have it again next week! Anyways, enough complaining from me. I’m here to talk about a new favorite book of mine! Have you ever read a book where you just felt completely and totally happy when it ended? And you couldn’t keep that smile off your face? Well, I have found that book. Counting Down with You is now one of my favorite contemporaries.…
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Review: The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum
Hey, everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. Today I have a book review for The Weight of the Stars. I read this book a while ago, but I haven’t able to write down a coherent review with my thoughts on it. I finally managed to put my thoughts down, so here it is! Title: The Weight of the StarsAuthor: K. AncrumGenre: Science Fiction, Contemporary, Young AdultSeries: NonePage Count: 384 Synopsis: “Ryann Bird dreams of traveling across the stars. But a career in space isn’t an option for a girl who lives in a trailer park on the wrong side of town. So Ryann becomes her circumstances and settles for…
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Mini Reviews: A Collection of LGBTQ+ Books in Honor of Pride Month
Hello, everyone! I hope you’re all doing well. I haven’t done a book review in nearly a month, which is kind of surprising, but I wanted to do these reviews as a collection, so I’ve been working on them for a while. These are all from my Pride Month TBR which I set at the beginning of June. Quick disclaimer that there are going to be no unmarked spoilers in any of these reviews. If there are any, they will be marked and hidden. Title: Picture Us in the Light Author: Kelly Loy Gilbert Genre: Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult Series: None Page Count: 361 Synopsis: “Danny Cheng has always…
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Pride Month TBR
Hey, everyone! I hope you’re doing well. As I’m sure most of you know, June is Pride Month, so I have a list of some books with LGBTQ+ representation that I’m planning on reading this month. This is a very ambitious TBR, because I normally don’t read this many books per month, but hopefully I’ll get through some of them. All of these books are new to me, so I’m looking forward to reading them. I honestly don’t have a whole lot to say about these books, except for the fact that I’m really looking forward to reading them. I’ve heard a lot of good things about all of these…
