If you pick up a single new release, pick this one.
Six Crimson Cranes, Four Stars and One Afternoon to Read it all
Violent and Delightful: the Retelling we Deserve
These Violent Delights is imaginative and so complex. It's a gem in all the YA books I've picked up in a good while solely because of the way each character is so fully fleshed out. The motives and the inner turmoil that Juilette and Roma go through while trying to be what their family needs... Continue Reading →
Lore by Alexandra Bracken, a love letter to women of mythology
Rating: 4 Stars As the first book I picked up and finished this year, I had high hopes and Lore met most of them! Lore reads like a love letter to mythology, but also like a comic book that starts out with fire and anger that makes for some of the most compelling action I've... Continue Reading →
Girl, Serpent, Thorn: seamless fantasy world building
Rating: 3.5 stars! Girl, Serpent, Thorn creates a marvelous fantasy world, rich with culture and a sense of magic. This world felt like something screen worthy, and this book could make for a television show because of how vivid the descriptions were. I loved the world-building the most in this book, obviously, but there were... Continue Reading →
Ninth House: Survival of the darkest, smartest and fittest.
Ninth House is Leigh Bardugo's delicious dark fantasy tale that takes place in the heart of New Haven. In Yale's darkest alleys and secret societies, magic exists and the ones who wield it are too powerful. Drunk on what it means to shape the world through dark magic, someone commits a murder. A murder that... Continue Reading →
Review: The Damned, a love song for New Orleans and it’s magic
“My mortal father used to say that anger and fear are two sides of the same coin,” Arjun continues. “They both make us behave outside our nature.”Renee Ahdieh, The Damned The Damned is the much awaited sequel to one of my favorite 2019 reads—The Beautiful. Ahdieh’s The Beautiful was a love song about the magic... Continue Reading →
10 Things I Hate About Pinky and 3 Reasons Why I love This Book
https://www.instagram.com/p/CClm3BhADC2/ Thank you Netgalley and Simon Pulse for providing me with a digital review copy in exchange for an honest review. As someone who is new to Sandhya Menon's writing and has also read very few YA Romances, I went into this book with a lot of curiosity and excitement. I was looking forward to... Continue Reading →
Court of Miracles: YA takes on revolution in a new retelling
Thank you Netgalley and Knopf Books for Young Readers for providing me with an eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review! Rating: 3.5 stars! The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant follows a headstrong protagonist who would do anything for her sister. She steals, she fights, and she’s always ready to do... Continue Reading →
The Secret History’s is the perfect modern day Greek Tragedy
I texted a friend at 2 am to convince them to read this book. This is one of those books that makes the world seem like a different place, brand new in ways that are Donna Tartt's gift. I read The Secret History across a period of 5 months, on and off but never giving... Continue Reading →
Reading in the age of Ebooks
"... fictional worlds can give us comfort. And right now, comfort can go a long way."
Faerie of Books 