Genre: YA Fantasy

L-L-L-Little Reviews #63:  June 2024

L-L-L-Little Reviews #63: June 2024

Here are the books I read this past month that were not part of scheduled reviews. In the Weeds (Lovelight #2) by B.K. Borison My Review: I really enjoyed the first book in this series, Lovelight Farm, and so decided to try to listen or read each of the other books in the season they […]

Posted June 29, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments
ARC Review:  Beastly Beauty by Jennifer Donnelly

ARC Review: Beastly Beauty by Jennifer Donnelly

Blurb: From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast that will forever change how you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart.  What makes a girl “beastly?” Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up […]

Posted April 23, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 10 Comments
ARC Review:  Otherworldly by F.T. Lukens

ARC Review: Otherworldly by F.T. Lukens

Blurb: A skeptic and a supernatural being make a crossroads deal to achieve their own ends only to get more than they bargained for in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After . Seventeen-year-old Ellery is a non-believer in a […]

Posted April 3, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments
L-L-L-Little Reviews #60: March 2024

L-L-L-Little Reviews #60: March 2024

Here are the books I read this past month that were not part of scheduled reviews. One is an e-galley I planned to get done earlier and post it in its own review, but I didn’t get it done in time, so it got added to this post. Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree My […]

Posted March 30, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 14 Comments
ARC Review:  A Drop of Venom by Sajni Patel

ARC Review: A Drop of Venom by Sajni Patel

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 […]

Posted January 12, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments
ARC Review:  Somewhere in the Deep by Tanvi Berwah

ARC Review: Somewhere in the Deep by Tanvi Berwah

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. […]

Posted January 4, 2024 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 16 Comments