Saturday Showcase is a weekly event that I host featuring books that I wish more people had read (or, at least, heard about). This week’s featured book is Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor, which is one of my favourite YA reads. Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers...
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Cover Reveal: Side Effects May Vary by Julie Murphy
Yesterday, the cover for Julie Murphy’s debut novel Side Effects May Vary was revealed, and it looks wonderful! What if you’d been living your life as if you were dying—only to find out that you had your whole future ahead of you? When sixteen-year-old Alice is diagnosed with leukemia, her prognosis is grim. To maximize the time she...
Friday Finds (June 21)
Friday Finds is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, where you discuss books that you’ve discovered and added to your to-read list over the course of the week. These books don’t have to be ones that you’ve purchased – they can be books that you’ve borrowed, found online, heard about from a friend, etc. Books I...
Book Review: Nevermore by Kelly Creagh
Cheerleader Isobel Lanley is horrified when she is paired with Varen Nethers for an English project, which is due—so unfair—on the day of the rival game. Cold and aloof, sardonic and sharp-tongued, Varen makes it clear he’d rather not have anything to do with her either. But when Isobel discovers strange writing in his journal, she can’t help but...
WWW Wednesday (June 19)
WWW Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading. To participate, answer the following three questions: 1. What are you currently reading? 2. What did you recently finish reading? 3. What do you think you’ll read next? I’m currently reading Enshadowed by Kelly Creagh (or, I will be by the end of today). I’m so excited...
Waiting on Wednesday (June 19)
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine, which spotlights upcoming releases that are eagerly anticipated. This week’s release that I’m (not so) patiently awaiting is Ashes on the Waves by Mary Lindsey, which has an expected publication date of June 27. Liam MacGregor is cursed. Haunted by the wails of fantastical Bean Sidhes...
Book Review: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver
What if you only had one day to live? What would you do? Who would you kiss? And how far would you go to save your own life? Samantha Kingston has it all: looks, popularity, the perfect boyfriend. Friday, February 12, should be just another day in her charmed life. Instead, it turns out to be her last....
Top Ten Books On My To-Read List
My to-read list on Goodreads currently consists of 277 titles. From that alone I’m sure you can guess that there are a lot of books that I would like to read this summer, but I’ll do my best to narrow it down to ten that I’m really looking forward to reading. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald...
Teaser Tuesday (June 18)
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by Should Be Reading, which asks you to grab your current read, open to a random page, and share two teaser sentences. This week’s teaser comes from Dark Child by Adina West. Perfect for fans of The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, this intriguing urban fantasy follows the story of...
ARC Review: Will in Scarlet by Matthew Cody
Will Scarlet is on the run. Once the sheltered son of nobility, Will has become an exile. While his father, Lord Shackley, has been on the Crusades with King Richard, a treacherous plot to unseat Richard has swept across England, and Shackley House has fallen. Will flees the only home he’s ever known into neighboring Sherwood Forest, where...