Thanks to PenguinTeen for giving me a free digital copy in exchange for an honest review. (Yes, I know I’m behind, sorry!)
Look, y’all. My first Wibbroka book and I thought, “Yes! Finally reading what everyone else has been saying are a great YA contemporary pair!” And the thing is… Maybe I just went into this one with a lot of expectation. Perhaps I should have started with their first book. Alas, I did no such thing.
Continue readingThanks to Flatiron Books for giving a free digital copy via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
Guys, I really wanted to like this. Pitched as a modern Anna Karenina retelling and with a Korean MC, I just was just…enthralled. Sadly, everything really fizzled out the more I kept reading the book. Were there redeeming parts? Totally. But not enough.
Content warnings: animal death, suicide ideation, heavy drug and alcohol use, cheating, brief mentions of self-harm, racism
Thanks to Random House Children’s via NetGalley for giving me a free digital copy in exchange for an honest review. I ended up getting a physical ARC from a local indie bookstore before I was approved for the eARC.
Well, this was and wasn’t what I expected it to be.
A huge thank you to PenguinTeen for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest review! I received this book as part of a promotion.
Y’all, how little did I know what I was getting myself into when I read this book. I knew it was going to be good, and I expected a cute, fluffy romance but it was so much more than that. In the best way possible.
All quotes are taken from the ARC and may change in the finished copy.
Content warning: death of a loved one, racism
I’m not quite sure what I expected when I read this book, but boy it certainly wasn’t this. It’s intense, dark, yet hopeful, filled with places we’d rather not visit but is a stark reality in the world today. The only thing I can describe it as is Taylor Swift meets A Star Is Born. I gobbled up this book in 3 days.
Thank you to Wednesday Books and NetGalley for giving me a free, digital copy in exchange for an honest review.
Content warning: Drug and alcohol abuse, suicide (discussion of)
Just to let you know, I’m writing this review from my grave because I am seriously dead, d-e-a-d, dead! Honestly, I spoiled part of what happened in this book by reading the first part of the synopsis of Queen of Air and Darkness and then scrolling through fanart on Instagram… So I really have no one else to blame but myself. However, I did not see the last few chapters playing out like that. How? Why? But the children!
Right. So. Are y’all ready for a coherent review? You may not get one because all I have are EMOTIONS and things.
Oh my word! I think I have found another favorite series. (Right, yes, so I know I’m only on book 2 but did you see there’s going to be a book 4 and 5?! Both of which are untitled as of right now but I’m impatiently waiting on the edge of my seat!)
Oh my word! I enjoyed this book far better than the first book in the series, and I’m so glad! I guess I better review it since I’ve already started listening to Clockwork Princess!
Right, I listened to this via audiobook and enjoyed it! Man, I’m really loving how audiobooks help me speed through my reading goal! 😛
I’m shocking myself by the amount of contemporary YA fiction I’m reading right now. I’m tentatively exploring the genre, trying to find some goods books, since it’s one of my least read sub-genre in YA.
So when I came across this lovely (I mean, that cover says a lot) on Netgalley, I immediately requested a copy and a lucky chosen one!
Thanks to Netgalley and Kensington Books for giving me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
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