Review: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

Published: Delacorte, 2015 Genre: YA contemporary romance My rating: 2/5 stars Description: “My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then …

Writing Update #4

Hi all, I finally have some decent content for a writing update! This summer has been an emotional one - and it's only June as I'm writing this. Though it's been tough, it's also been creative fuel. I'm hoping to compile enough poems to do a senior writing project this coming spring. Gathering up the …

Review: Daughter of Smoke & Bone – Laini Taylor (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1)

Published: Little, Brown, & Company, 2011 Genre: Young adult, fantasy, paranormal romance My rating: 2/5 stars "Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out …

The Summer Reader Tag

Hi all, So I thought something fund to do for the summer would be a summer book tag. I found this one on ABookLoversPlaylist, and they said they got it from this video by islandOFdri on YouTube. Lemonade: pick a book that started off bitter but got better. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo. I was …

The Books that Made Me a Reader (Get to Know Me #1)

Hi all, I’ve had this blog for over a year, and I feel like ya’ll don’t know very much about me. I want to start doing more personal posts so you can get a better idea of the woman behind the reviews. One way I thought would be fun to do that is to share …

Review: A House at the Bottom of a Lake by Josh Malerman

Published: This is Horror, 2016 Genre: "Horror," fantasy, young adult My rating: 1/5 stars "Both seventeen. Both afraid. But both saying yes. It sounded like the perfect first date: canoeing across a chain of lakes, sandwiches and beer in the cooler. But teenagers Amelia and James discover something below the water’s surface that changes their lives …

My Summer 2017 TBR

  Hi all, It's been a while since I bought new books, and I'm slowly trying to dwindle down my TBR shelf. Most of these books have been sitting on this shelf collecting dust for some time now, especially since I didn't have much time for leisure reading during the semester. This summer, my reading …