Genre: YA Historical Fiction

Two YA Historical Fantasy Reviews:  Night of the Witch (Witch and Hunter #1) by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis & Wrath Becomes Her by Aden Polydoros

Two YA Historical Fantasy Revi..

Posted October 12, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 10 Comments

Night of the Witch (Witch and Hunter #1) by Sara Raasch and Beth Revis Blurb: A witch and a hunter. Vengeance is their mission. Love is their destiny. Fritzi is a witch. A survivor of a brutal attack on her coven, she’s determined to find her only surviving family member and bring the hexenjägers—zealot witch […]

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway:  Pride & Prejudice & Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway..

Posted August 28, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, giveaway, Review / 10 Comments

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the PRIDE & PREJUDICE & PITTSBURGH by Rachael Lippincott Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway! Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook Blurb: From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Five Feet Apart and She Gets the Girl comes a fresh and inventive sapphic […]

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway:  Sanctuary for Seers (Stranje House #5) by Kathleen Baldwin

Blog Tour Review with Giveaway..

Posted June 19, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Blog Tour, giveaway, Review / 12 Comments

Blurb: The highly anticipated fifth and final book in the bestselling Stranje House series. What if you’d been born at a dangerous and superstitious time two centuries ago… and you had the unusual ability to see not only the tangible world but also the spiritual and emotional realms? When her family banishes her to Stranje […]

L-L-L-Little Reviews #50: May 2023

L-L-L-Little Reviews #50: May ..

Posted May 30, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 22 Comments

Here are the books I read and/or finished this past month that were not part of scheduled tours or requests from authors/publishers. Barbarian Alien (Ice Planet Barbarian #2) by Ruby Dixon My Review: I was surprised but loved the first book in this series, Ice Planet Barbarians, and so had to get the second one […]

L-L-L-Little Reviews #49: April 2023

L-L-L-Little Reviews #49: Apri..

Posted April 29, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 10 Comments

Here are the books I read and/or finished this past month that were not part of scheduled tours or requests from authors/publishers. One For All by Lillie Lainoff My Review: This was a fun historical retelling with a reimagining, or extra storyline added to the musketeers of history. It made me dig into some French […]

L-L-L-Little Reviews #48: March 2023

L-L-L-Little Reviews #48: Marc..

Posted March 29, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments

Here are the books I read and/or finished this past month that were not part of scheduled tours or requests from authors/publishers. Forging Silver Into Stars by Brigid Kemmerer My Review: This is my first book by this author. An author I’ve been saying for a long time I need to read. And I do […]

L-L-L-Little Reviews #47:  February 2023

L-L-L-Little Reviews #47: Feb..

Posted February 25, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments

Here are the books I read this past month that were not part of scheduled tours or requests from authors/publishers. My Second Impression of You by Michelle I. Mason: My Review: I adored this book. I was hooked from the very start! Now as I go back through Goodreads I see it only got like […]

L-L-L-Little Reviews #46: January 2023

L-L-L-Little Reviews #46: Janu..

Posted January 31, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments

Here are the books I read this past month that were not part of scheduled reviews. The Hunger Between Us by Marina Adair: My Review: All I can really say about this is wow! This was such a dark story. The main character had a lot of unlikable actions and characteristics. But the world she […]

ARC Review: The Second Death of Edie and Violet Bond by Amanda Glaze

ARC Review: The Second Death o..

Posted October 8, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments

Blurb: Deliciously chilling and edge-of-your-seat suspenseful.”—Nina LaCour, Printz Award–winning author of We Are Okay Sacramento, 1885  Edie and Violet Bond know the truth about death. The seventeen-year-old twins are powerful mediums, just like their mother—Violet can open the veil between life and death, and Edie can cross into the spirit world. But their abilities couldn’t save them […]

ARC Review:  Don’t Go To Sleep by Bryce Moore

ARC Review: Don’t Go To..

Posted August 5, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments

Blurb: A seventeen-year old girl goes up against the notorious axeman murderer in 1918 in this suspenseful historical fiction story from the author of The Perfect Place to Die. Gianna is the average seventeen-year-old girl living in 1918 New Orleans. She worries about her family’s store, the great war, and a mysterious illness that’s about to […]