I get nervous when a book is pitched as The Fault In Our Stars meets Sarah Dessen. I mean, how can a book even live up to a comparison like that? Fortunately, when I picked up Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy, I was able to clear the comparisons from my head and take the book on […]
Love Letters To The Dead by Ava Dellaira | Book Review
June 20, 2014
Oh, friends, I am over the moon to chat with you all about Love Letters To The Dead by Ava Dellaira. It’s the sort of book that after finishing it, I found myself popping over to google chat to recommend it to one of my friends, only to discover they had already read it and experienced […]
Falling Into Place | Amy Zhang | Book Review
June 16, 2014
I was lucky enough to have picked this book up at BEA. I had some extra time and waited in the autograph line for Amy Zhang. It was a little awkward because I didn’t know what to say. I hadn’t read it before and was picking it up purely based on reviews I had read. Regardless, […]
Allison: If I Stay | Gayle Forman | Book Review
June 5, 2014
I thought I knew what I might say after finally reading If I Stay by Gayle Forman but truth be told I am still at a loss for words. Everyone was telling me that this book was going to break me and maybe that is why I kept putting it off for so long. I […]
Sorrow’s Knot by Erin Bow | Book Review
May 31, 2014
I picked up Sorrow’s Knot by Erin Bow because I loved, loved, LOVED Plain Kate, Bow’s debut novel. I had all the feels for Taggle and Kate and was hopeful that I would have all of the feels during this go around. Further, I had obtained a copy of Sorrow’s Knot at BEA, only to wind up receiving […]
A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier | Book Review
March 23, 2014
I hate to admit this, but A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier has made me regret those days where I wished for the flu so I could be out of work for a couple of days without touching my vacation time — I always have this cushion of sick time. Lucier’s debut has made me realize […]