A young adult fiction anthology of 15 stories featuring contemporary, historical, and futuristic stories featuring witchy heroines who are diverse in race, class, sexuality, religion, geography, and era… Read More Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood (ARC Review)
As you can tell from this post’s title, I come to you with some bad news! Some of you might have seen that I addressed my concerns about this meme in last week’s post, and I also included a survey to learn a little about what participants and potential participants would want from the meme.… Read More #ARCstravaganza: Goodbye
I absolutely loved Roshani Chokshi’s full novels The Star-Touched Queen (my review) and A Crown of Wishes (my review), so when the first short story in this collection, “Death and Night” came out as a novella last May, I was all over it. I won’t go into that story in this review, because I wrote a full review… Read More Star-Touched Stories by Roshani Chokshi (eARC Review)
Adeluna is a soldier. Five years ago, she helped the magic-rich island of Grace Loray overthrow its oppressor, Argrid, a country ruled by religion. But adjusting to postwar life has not been easy. When an Argridian delegate vanishes during peace talks with Grace Loray’s new Council, Argrid demands brutal justice—but Lu suspects something more dangerous is at work… Read More These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch (ARC Review)
Happy Monday everyone! And also happy #ARCstravaganza day! Today might be coming with some bad news, though. I’ve been thinking about this for some months now, and while I have a lot of fun making these posts, it’s not as much fun as it could be if more of you joined in as well! So,… Read More #ARCstravaganza #52: Shimmy Bang Sparkle by Nicola Rendell
Happy Monday everyone! And also happy #ARCstravaganza day! I know that many of us have been very excited for the release of the book that I selected for this week, and it will finally be coming out this week! Yay! The wait is over! I also wanted to let you all know that some weeks… Read More #ARCstravaganza #51: These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch
Calendar Girls is back! It has gone through some changes though. The hostesses have changed entirely from Melanie and myself, to our friends (and former Calendar Girls participants) Katie @ Never Not Reading and Adrienne @ Darque Dreamer Reads! I’m so happy that these ladies were able to adopt this monthly blog event and give… Read More Calendar Girls (August 2018): Dog Days of Summer (Best Novel Set in Summer)
Title: Sea Witch Author: Sarah Henning Type: Fiction Genre: YA, Fantasy, Retelling, Mythology, Mermaids Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books (HarperCollins) Published: July 31, 2018 Source: Publisher A physical copy of this book was kindly provided by the publisher, in exchange for an honest review. Everyone knows what happens in the end. A mermaid, a prince, a true… Read More Sea Witch by Sarah Henning (ARC Review)
Title: When Life Gives You Demons Authors: Jennifer Honeybourn Type: Fiction Genre: YA, Fantasy, Paranormal, Demons Publisher: Swoon Reads Date published: July 17, 2018 A physical copy of this book was kindly provided by Raincoast Books, in exchange for an honest review. Sixteen-year-old Shelby Black has spent the past year training to be an exorcist. Her… Read More When Life Gives You Demons by Jennifer Honeybourn (ARC Review)
Happy Monday everyone! And also happy #ARCstravaganza day! I know that many of us have been very excited for the release of the book that I selected for this week, and it will finally be coming out next week! Yay! The wait is over! I also wanted to let you all know that some weeks… Read More #ARCstravaganza #50: Sea Witch by Sarah Henning