Review: Ash
4.5/5 stars. Buy at Amazon | Barnes & Noble Ash by Malinda Lo is an nontraditional take on Cinderella that mixes fairy tales with tales of the fair folk. When she is twelve, Ash’s mother passes away, and her father remarries; the step-mother brings with her her two children and a dismissal of the Old Ways. […]
Review: The Manny Files
5/5 stars. Buy at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble The Manny Files by Christian Burch is a delightful middle-school adventure that brings the feels big time. Nine-year-old Keats has two older sisters and one younger one. With that many kids in the family, their parents regularly hire nannies to take care of them. Keats hasn’t […]
Review: The Second Mango
4.5/5 stars. Buy at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Prizm Books The Second Mango (Mangoverse #1) by Shira Glassman is a delightful lesbian young adult fantasy with a charming sense of adventure. Shulamit is the young queen of Perach, and is not exactly happy with her situation. She likes ladies and can’t digest wheat or […]
Review: Glitterland
5/5 stars. Buy at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble Glitterland by Alexis Hall was recommended to me by my friend and fellow author Luna Harlow (whose review of it can be found here), and I am so, so glad I took her up on the rec. Spoilers: I loved it. Glitterland is the story of […]
Review: The Unintentional Time Traveler
4/5 stars. Buy at: Amazon | Barnes & Noble The Unintentional Time Traveler by Everett Maroon is the story of teenage Jack Bishop, whose epilepsy ends up with him put into an experimental program to try to cure him. Unexpectedly (to say the least), this causes him to travel back in time and find himself […]