Title: Malice Author: Heather Walter Publisher: Del Rey Published: 13 April 2021 Oh my word!! Not only was this book such an amazing retelling of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty, but the world building, the characters, and the LGBTQ+ representation was wonderful as well. I’m just completely blown away by how much this book exceeded […]
Title: Written in the Stars Author: Alexandria Bellefleur Publisher: Avon Published: 20 November 2020 Pages: 384 I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, I love, love, love the fake dating trope. I don’t care how unrealistic it is, I’ll always love it! Darcy Lowell is a no-nonsense, analytical, skeptical, actuarial analyst is done […]
Title: Tools of a Thief Author: D. Hale Rambo Publisher: Fiercewood Press Published: 25 May 2021 Pages: 170 I received an ARC ebook copy from Books Forward in exchange for an honest reivew. I’m not even sure where to start on this. I read this in one sitting not out of interest really but out […]
Title: Hazel’s Theory of Evolution Author: Lisa Jenn Bigelow Published: 20 October 2020 Publisher: HarperCollins Trigger Warnings: bullying, miscarriage, still birth, medical trauma, pregnancy, pregnancy after loss Oh my word!! I cried buckets of tears as I read this book and after I finished it. But gosh, it was amazing! I absolutely love Hazel and […]
Title: The Dead and the Dark Author: Courtney Gould Publisher: Wednesday Books Published: 3 August 2021 Pages: 352 Content Warnings: Homophobia, hate crime, death, murder, child death, biphobia I received an eARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Wow! I am blown away by how this all came together. The Dead and the […]
Title: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Author: Becky Chambers Publisher: Harper Voyager Published: 5 July 2016 Pages: 443 Oh! My! Goodness! I had not really heard about this book but kept seeing it on people’s 2020 year end reviews. The library I work at recently acquired it, so I over the Christmas […]
Title: Upright Women Wanted Author: Sarah Gailey Publisher: Tor Published: 4 February 2020 I’ve known about this book for a while and was super excited to read it. Yet, it wasn’t what I expected. Esther is a stowaway on a librarian’s book wagon, trying to escape a marriage arranged by her father — a marriage […]
Title: Gideon the Ninth Author: Tamsyn Muir Publisher: Tor Published: 10 September 2019 Pages: 448 Okay, I’ll try not to gush too much about this book, but I make no promises. First off, I was completely confused at the beginning. Not going to lie, I was reading to mostly try to hopefully understand in later […]
Title: The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh Author: Molly Greeley Publisher: William Morrow Published: 5 January 2021 I received a free eARC of this novel from the publisher in exchange for a fair and honest review. Thank you, William Morrow! I’m a sucker for Jane Austen books! I’ll give any of them a […]
Title: I Wish You All the Best Author: Mason Deaver Publisher: Push Published: 14 May 2019 Oh. My. Word. All the feelings with this novel! I absolutely loved it! When Ben De Backer comes out to his parents as non-binary, they kick them out. Their only option is to contact their older sister, Hannah, who […]