Book Review | Mystic Invisible by Ryder Hunte Clancy

Genre(s): YA Fantasy, Mystery, FolkloreAge Level: Young AdultRelease Date: March 17, 2021Publisher: Winter Goose Publishing 3.5 out of 5 stars Fifteen-year-old Monte moves to the mystically jeopardized Highlands of Scotland and discovers that life as a Celtic wizard is anything but easy. Whisperings of abnormal enchantments and vicious cat siths grip the small town he

Book Review | The Kingdom Of Back by Marie Lu

Genre(s): YA FantasyAge Level: Young AdultRelease Date: March 3, 2020Publisher: G. P. Putnam’s Sons 4.5 out of 5 stars Born with a gift for music, Nannerl Mozart has just one wish: to be remembered forever. But even as she delights audiences with her masterful playing, she has little hope she’ll ever become the acclaimed composer

Book Review | So This Is Love by Elizabeth Lim

Genre(s): YA Fantasy, Fairytale, RomanceAge Level: Young AdultRelease Date: April 7, 2020Publisher: Disney-Hyperion 3 out of 5 stars What if Cinderella never tried on the glass slipper? Unable to prove that she’s the missing princess, and unable to bear life under Lady Tremaine any longer, Cinderella starts work at the palace as a seamstress. However,

Book Review | The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman

Genre(s): Fiction, Romance, ContemporaryAge Level: Adult Release Date: November 17, 2020Publisher: Berkley Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Since the day Filomena Fontana cast a curse upon her sister more than two hundred years ago, not one second-born Fontana daughter has found lasting love. Some, like second-born Emilia, the happily-single baker at her grandfather’s Brooklyn deli,

Book Review | Lost In The Never Woods by Aiden Thomas

Genre(s): YA Fantasy, Urban FantasyAge Level: Young AdultRelease Date: March 23, 2021Publisher: Swoon Reads 4.5 out of 5 stars When children go missing in the small coastal town of Astoria, people look to Wendy for answers. It’s been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when the town’s children start to disappear,

Book Review | We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This by Rachel Lynn Solomon

Genre(s): Romance, Contemporary, Rom ComAge Level: Young AdultRelease Date: June 8, 2021Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers  5 out of 5 stars Quinn Berkowitz and Tarek Mansour’s families have been in business together for years: Quinn’s parents are wedding planners, and Tarek’s own a catering company. At the end of last summer, Quinn

Book Review | Sea of Kings by Melissa Hope

Genre(s): Fantasy Fiction, AdventureAge Level: Middle Grade Fiction, Fantasy, AdventureRelease Date: April 27, 2021Publisher: Jolly Fish Press 5 out of 5 stars Thirteen-year-old Prince Noa has hated the ocean since the day it caused his mother’s death. But staying away from the sea isn’t easy on his tropical island home where he’s stuck trying to

Book Review | Alice Fleck’s Recipes For Disaster by Rachelle Delaney

Genre(s): Realistic Fiction, MysteryAge Level: Middle GradeRelease Date: May 11, 2021Publisher: Puffin Books 5 out of 5 stars Alice Fleck’s father is a culinary historian, and for as long as she can remember, she’s been helping him recreate meals from the past — a hobby she prefers to keep secret from kids her age. But

Mini Book Haul | March 2021

So much happened within the month of March! One of the things I did was buy books (shocker)! Don’t get me wrong, I don’t always buy books – they can be expensive and I already have so many eBooks on my iPad from my local library. I don’t buy books every single month but this

Author Q&A With Niamh And Rebecca Schmid

I’m so excited to have the opportunity to showcase two authors – Niamh and Rebecca Schmid and welcome them on the blog today! Recently, I have had the privilege of asking the author duo 5 questions – ones that I’m curious about and I think other readers and authors would also love to read about.