Blurb: Circe goes YA in this unapologetically feminist retelling of the Medusa myth steeped in Indian mythology, a YA epic fantasy addition to the Rick Riordan Presents imprint. All monsters and heroes have beginnings. This is mine. Sixteen-year-old Manisha is no stranger to monsters—she’s been running from them for years, from beasts who roam the […]
Blurb: Sixteen-year-old Reece is an expert at keeping secrets. She has to be, since her father abducted her ten years ago. For as long as she can remember, she’s been on the run, sneaking food out of the dumpster and sleeping in the woods. Every time she moves, the same rules apply— cut your hair, […]
Blurb: Presley Ayers is not the woman you bring on a camping trip. An accomplished concierge at an exclusive hotel in Great Falls, MI, she knows more about the top ten places for champagne and caviar than she does about the best hiking boots to go stomping around near Lake Michigan. But when she surprises […]
Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Krescent Dune is buried under the weight of her dead parents’ debt and the ruinous legacy they left behind. The only way she can earn enough money to escape her unforgiving island is by battling monstrous creatures in an underground fighting pit. After a fight goes terribly wrong, she’s banned from the pits. […]
Blurb: A sparkling debut rom-com about a high school senior whose life suddenly gets a Bollywood spin when her sister gets engaged. Shaadi preparations are in full swing, which means lehenga shopping, taste testing, dance rehearsals, and best of all, Arya’s sister Alina is home. The Khannas are together again, finally, and Arya wants to […]
This year I read so many Christmas/holiday titles, or started and DNFed them, that I thought a special post dedicated to those would be fun! I’ll say the Nice ones are the ones I finished and enjoyed, and the Naughty ones are my DNFs. Even if some of the ones I finished and loved had […]
Here are the books I read and/or finished this past month that were not part of scheduled tours or requests from authors/publishers. I had hoped to get all my 2023 reviews wrapped up here, but I think a few will probably wait till a January L-L-L post just because I already have my last week […]
Posting this a little early this month, because as I said with my L-L-L post yesterday, the end of December is pretty booked with my Top 10 posts. And actually, three of my DNFs this month were holiday books so they are in my Christmas post about Santa’s List, so I only have one to […]
Blurb: What Not to Wear and Queer Eye meet All the Feels in this sparkling romantic comedy by Jenny L. Howe, in which the new guest on a popular plus-size makeover show has her style―and her love life―transformed. Everly Winters is perfectly happy to navigate life like a good neutral paint color: appreciated but unnoticed. […]
Tropes: Friends to Lovers/Fake Engagement Blurb: Most people think I’m a moron. In actuality, I’m a man with a plan. It’s one of those three-year plans that takes longer than three years. Still, I’ve been making it happen. Checking off those to-dos and turning them into to-dones. Everything is almost lined up. And then my […]