A Death-Struck Year by Makiia Lucier | Book Review

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 […]

Stay Where You Are And Then Leave by John Boyne | Book Review

John Boyne’s Stay Where You Are And Then Leave is a quiet gem of a book. To me, it does not shout with action or over the top prose, instead it whispers a subtle story of family and love where you lean in to hear and listen just a little bit harder than you normally would. […]

Noggin by John Corey Whaley | Book Review

By all accounts and purposes, I probably shouldn’t like Noggin by John Corey Whaley. I am one of those people that occasionally has a hard time with weird concepts. The premise of Noggin is that Travis Coates has his head cryogenically frozen and wakes up five years later attached to the body of Jeremy Pratt and has […]

Bright Before Sunrise by Tiffany Schmidt | Book Review

You ever just take the plunge and start reading a book that you do not entirely know a whole lot about because you haven’t really read a whole lot of reviews of said book? I rarely do this. When browsing through my eARC shelf, I just felt so drawn to the giant moon cover of Bright […]

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge | Book Review

You ever get the feeling that after finishing a book you just want to hug it tightly to your chest because that book has just taken you on an intense journey and you are happy and sad and filled to the brim to see it end. Friends, after much prodding (especially from Blythe), I picked […]

Hideous Love | Stephanie Hemphill | Book Review

I get kind of excited about books that take on historical figures and really sort of bring them to life. I love learning about the lives of real people from the past. Stephanie Hemphill takes on the story of Mary Wollenstonecraft Shelley in Hideous Love, a young adult verse novel. I am on the fence about […]