Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers

Review:  How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

Review: How to Succeed in Wit..

Posted December 14, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 10 Comments

Blurb: An overachieving teen witch vies for a prestigious scholarship at her elite high school in this contemporary YA fantasy for fans of Never Have I Ever and Sabrina the Teen Witch! Magically brilliant, academically perfect, chronically overcommitted… Shay Johnson has all the makings of a successful witch. Now that she’s a junior at T.K. Anderson Magical Magnet […]

ARC Review:  The Corpse Queen by Heather Herrman

ARC Review: The Corpse Queen ..

Posted September 14, 2021 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments

Synopsis: In this dark and twisty feminist historical thriller, a teenage girl starts a new life as a grave robber but quickly becomes entangled in a murderer’s plans. Soon after her best friend Kitty mysteriously dies, orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is sent away to live with her “aunt.” With no relations that she knows of, […]

ARC Review: The Blossom and the Firefly by Sherri L. Smith

ARC Review: The Blossom and th..

Posted February 16, 2020 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments

My Review: I was lucky enough to get a copy of this book when I was attending the AASL convention back in November. I was definitely intrigued by the historical aspect of this that is not often found in YA books, at least not that I’ve noticed. At first the jumping from character to character […]

ARC Review:  The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh

ARC Review: The Beautiful by ..

Posted November 27, 2019 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments

Book info: Title:  The Beautiful Author:  Renee Ahdieh Genre:  YA paranormal romance Release Date:  October 8th, 2019 Publisher:  G.P. Putnam’s Sons BYR Source:  ARC won from Bookish First which did not influence my opinion My rating:  4 stars Synopsis: New York Times bestselling author Renée Ahdieh returns with a sumptuous, sultry and romantic new series set […]

YA Novella Reviews:  The Crown and the Arrow (The Wrath and the Dawn #0.5) and The Mirror and the Maze (The Wrath and the Dawn #1.5) by Renee Ahdieh

YA Novella Reviews: The Crown..

Posted May 12, 2016 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments

These two novellas were up for free or really cheap and so I downloaded them and had to read them right after I finished the first book in the series, The Wrath and the Dawn, last month.  I enjoyed these, although they were so short.  Yeah, I know they were novellas. But they just barely […]

Review:  The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh

Review: The Wrath and the Daw..

Posted April 25, 2016 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 18 Comments

I won this book from another blog a year or so ago, and at the time, I forgot to put a little note in the book to remind me when I blogged about it. Oh well.  I have to say that I just adored this book!  I can’t believe I waited this long to read […]

2013 Truman Possibility 16:  Legend by Marie Lu

2013 Truman Possibility 16: L..

Posted November 23, 2012 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments

This is a book that I’ve seen bouncing around the Book  Blogosphere for awhile now.  I was very excited to get a copy of it at BEA this summer.  It’s not signed, and I didn’t get to meet the author unfortunately.   And I put it off reading until I got the list of the […]