Format: ARC

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway:  Dig Two Graves by Gretchen McNeil

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway: Dig Two Graves by Gretchen McNeil

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the DIG TWO GRAVES by Gretchen McNeil Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! Find it:Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org Blurb: One of Us is Lying meets Hitchcock in this novel from celebrated author of […]

Posted May 20, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, giveaway, Review / 9 Comments
ARC Review:  Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

ARC Review: Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado

Synopsis: Stranger Things meets Get Out in this Sapphic Horror debut from nonbinary, Afro-Latine author Vincent Tirado. Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of teens determined to save their city at any cost.  For over a year, the Bronx has been plagued by sudden disappearances that no one can explain. Sixteen-year-old […]

Posted May 5, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments
ARC Review: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

ARC Review: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

Blurb: They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages. CATALYST13 pointsnoun: a person or thing that precipitates an event […]

Posted April 21, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments
ARC Review:  Gone Dark by Amanda Panitch

ARC Review: Gone Dark by Amanda Panitch

Blurb: Dry meets Hatchet in this thrilling tale of survival following a teen girl who must lead her friends across country to the safety of her estranged father’s survivalist compound after a mass power failure leaves the country in chaos. When seventeen-year-old Zara escaped her father’s backwoods survivalist compound five years ago, she traded crossbows and skinning hides […]

Posted April 11, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments
ARC Review:  Debating Darcy by Sayantani DasGupta

ARC Review: Debating Darcy by Sayantani DasGupta

Blurb: This Pride & Prejudice retelling brings New York Timesbestselling Sayantani DasGupta’s trademark wit and insight to her bright and funny YA debut! It is a truth universally acknowledged that Leela Bose plays to win. A life-long speech competitor, Leela loves nothing more than crushing the competition, all while wearing a smile. But when she meets the incorrigible […]

Posted April 2, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments
ARC Review:  So This is Ever After by F.T. Lukens

ARC Review: So This is Ever After by F.T. Lukens

Blurb: Carry On meets Arthurian legend in this funny, subversive young adult fantasy about what happens after the chosen one wins the kingdom and has to get married to keep it…and to stay alive. Arek hadn’t thought much about what would happen after he completed the prophecy that said he was destined to save the Kingdom […]

Posted March 26, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments