I love books, and I love reviewing them! Just click on the links below, and they’ll show you all of my book reviews organized by title, by author, or by rating. If you’d like me to review your book, I’d be happy to! Simply pop over to my review policy and shoot me an email. Or view reviews by title, by rating, or by author.
María Hinojosa knows that storytelling is political. She often writes that she wants to tell human stories, stories featuring the lives and struggles of real people. And that’s exactly what […]
Coming up on the 2020 election, I’ll be including an action that you can take to make a difference at the top of every post. Today, I encourage you to […]
On August 3, an explosion in Beirut killed at least fifty and injured thousands. If you have the ability, donate to the Lebanese Red Cross to help with relief efforts. —In […]
Coming up on the 2020 election, I’ll be including an action that you can take to make a difference at the top of every post. Today, I encourage all eligible […]
Coming up on the 2020 election, I’ll be including an action that you can take to make a difference at the top of every post. Today, I encourage you all […]
New decade, same six-story feature. Well, not quite. The past ten years have seen my taste in literature transform itself in myriad ways. I’ve been writing these posts for the […]
I started this feature back in 2017 and have always had fun writing it. Since I discovered a lot of favorite books and authors in 2018, I decided to write yet […]
I got a lot of reading done this summer (almost 30 books!) so while that means I won’t be writing in-depth reviews of all the books I read, I’m choosing […]
I read a lot of books this summer. By that, I mean nearly thirty books in a little over three months (a record for me!). This summer, I’ve both discovered more […]
I only picked this book up because a large number of people (my bookstagram followers, my Goodreads friends, and a woman at the bookstore) recommended it to me. I didn’t think […]
This book is brilliant. I’m a huge fan of Irish mystery writer Tana French’s Dublin Murder Squad books, which each center on a different murder detective’s journey to solve a mystery […]
I’ve been reading a lot this summer, and I love it. I don’t get the chance to read a lot during the academic year, and many times, that carries over into […]
I’ve been reading a lot during the break! Specifically, it seems, books about war and spies. Reading more of these books is one of my goals for 2018, since I love […]
It’s 2018. Wow, it feels weird to say that. Last year I did a post of 6 books to read in 2017, and according to magical blog stats, you liked […]
“Luxury spaceliner Icarus suddenly plummets from hyperspace into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive – alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. […]
The year is 2575, and two rival megacorporations are at war over a planet that’s little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. With enemy fire […]
I didn’t blog a lot about reading in 2016, but I did read 28 books! Here are some of my favorite books of the past year (that you should read, too). […]
Invisible Man follows the story of an unnamed African American boy from his teenage years in school in the deep South to his days as an organizer and activist in 1930s […]
Simon Snow is the worst chosen one who’s ever been chosen. That’s what his roommate, Baz, says. And Baz might be evil and a vampire and a complete git, but […]
Welcome to Mini Book Reviews! Since I read faster than I can write reviews, I have decided to do mini-reviews for some of the books I’ve read over the summer. Want to […]
First off, TRIGGER WARNING for suicide, depression, and other related forms of mental illness. These feature greatly in the review and in the book itself (like featuring IN THE NEXT […]
Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her […]
A Goth girl with an attitude problem, Elizabeth Davis must learn to control her anger before it destroys her. Emily Delgado appears to be a smart, sweet girl, with a […]
About a year ago, I wrote a review of John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars, and described it as “the first good book I’d read in read in a long time.” After […]
Darcy Patel has put college and everything else on hold to publish her teen novel, Afterworlds. Arriving in New York with no apartment or friends she wonders whether she’s made […]
Sixteen-year-old Jansin Nordqvist is on the verge of graduating from the black ops factory known as the Academy. She’s smart and deadly, and knows three things with absolute certainty: 1. […]
Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all of you who celebrate it! I was planning on writing a Christmas post, but, um, I have time management issues. And feels. So […]
In Sloane’s world, true feelings are forbidden, teen suicide is an epidemic, and the only solution is The Program. Sloane knows better than to cry in front of anyone. With […]
Seventeen-year-old Skylar has been haunted for as long as she can remember by fleeting yet powerful sensations that something is horribly wrong. But despite the panic attacks tormenting her, nothing […]
Alone at home, twelve-year-old Grayson Sender glows, immersed in beautiful thoughts and dreams. But at school, Grayson grasps at shadows, determined to fly under the radar. Because Grayson has been […]
For Cather, life is pretty much about Simon Snow. Cath, and her twin sister, Wren, have been writing Simon Snow fan fiction for just about as long as they can […]
In the future, humans live in citylike spaceships orbiting far above Earth’s toxic atmosphere. No one knows when, or even if, the long-abandoned planet will be habitable again. But faced […]
There are three rules to staying an assassin at the corporation of Covert Operatives: (1) your parents must be deceased, (2) your contracts must remain confidential, and (3) you must […]
This book is so sad. Because you know stories about animal friendships are always sad. But because of that, it was quite amazing. Let me tell you why. (Caution: photographs […]
The cover of this book is pretty much amazing. And I loved the premise. A lot of the reviews on Goodreads have been bipolar, and while I don’t think the […]
I am reading so many good books lately. Yes, I liked this book. A lot. And you might think it’s easy to please me, because What’s Left of Me, which I reviewed […]
If I had to sum up What’s Left of Me in one word, it would be this: FANTASTIC. It was one of the first good books I have read in a long time. […]
The Mountaintop School for Dogs and Other Second Chances releases today! I’m very excited, seeing as I reviewed the book, and gave it 4 out of 5 wagging tails. I’m even […]
Evie wants to leave her old life behind. Her ugly family life, her ex-boyfriend, the drugs. So she applies to The Sanctuary, a dog rescue center high up in the […]
In April, I met Shirley Zindler, author of The Secret Life of Dog Catchers, in a coffee shop, by accident. They were out of places to sit, so we kind of stole the […]
Let me first just say how much I love this book’s cover. Secondly, let me just say I finished this book in a day. I read this book on the recommendation […]
It’s Victorian-era England. Pip is just a simple forge boy chosen to entertain rich Miss Havisham and her beautiful adopted daughter, Estella. Though he finds himself falling for Estella, Pip […]
In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago, life is split into five factions. When Beatrice is sixteen, she must choose a faction forever. Should she stay with her family, or should she […]
ALERT: SPOILERS!!! (for both Allegiant and The Fault in Our Stars) So, I’ll say it again, just in case you didn’t notice it in HUGE FONT right above this image: SPOILERS. AHEAD. WILL. RUIN. THE. BOOK. […]
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