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

E-galley Review:  Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

E-galley Review: Check & Mate by Ali Hazelwood

Blurb: In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life’s moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match for the heart. Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory’s focus is on […]

Posted November 4, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 13 Comments
Review:  How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

Review: How to Succeed in Witchcraft by Aislinn Brophy

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 […]

Posted December 14, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 10 Comments
ARC Review:  The Corpse Queen by Heather Herrman

ARC Review: The Corpse Queen by Heather Herrman

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, […]

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

ARC Review: The Beautiful by Renee Ahdieh

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

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