Audiobook ARC Review: Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala

Be Dazzled by Ryan La Sala My rating: 4 of 5 stars Who's ready to sparkle?? Project Runway goes to Comic Con in an epic queer love story about creativity, passion, and finding the courage to be your most authentic self. Raffy has a passion for bedazzling. Not just bedazzling, but sewing, stitching, draping, pattern …

ARC Review: Dracula, Motherf**ker! by Alex de Campi & Erica Henderson

Dracula, Motherf**ker! by Alex de Campi My rating: 2.5 of 5 stars Vienna, 1889: Dracula's brides nail him to the bottom of his coffin. Los Angeles, 1974: an ageing starlet decides to raise the stakes. Crime scene photographer Quincy Harker is the only man who knows it happened, but will anyone believe him before he gets …

ARC Review: Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds

Early Departures by Justin A. Reynolds My rating: 5 of 5 stars What if you could bring your best friend back to life—but only for a short time? Jamal’s best friend, Q, doesn’t know that he died, and that he’s about to die . . . again. He doesn’t know that Jamal tried to save …

ARC Review: I’m a Gay Wizard by V.S. Santoni

I’m a Gay Wizard by V.S. Santoni My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars You try magic once and it sticks to you like glitter glue . . . When Johnny and his best friend, Alison, pass their summer holidays dabbling in magic, they never expect it to have consequences. Sure, it’d be great if they …

Audiobook ARC Review: Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill by Lee Wind

Queer as a Five-Dollar Bill by Lee Wind My rating: 4 of 5 stars Wyatt is fifteen, and nobody in his homophobic small town of Lincolnville, Oregon, knows that he’s gay. Not even his best friend (and accidental girlfriend) Mackenzie. Then he discovers a secret from actual history: Abraham Lincoln was in love with another …

ARC Review: American Demon by Kim Harrison

The Witch with No Name by Kim Harrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars RACHEL MORGAN IS BACK–AND THE HOLLOWS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME. What happens after you’ve saved the world? Well, if you’re Rachel Mariana Morgan, witch-born demon, you quickly discover that something might have gone just a little bit wrong. That the …

Blog Tour & Review: Half Life by Lillian Clark

Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for Half Life! Title: Half Life Author: LIlian Clark Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers Publication date: 9 June 2020 Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction Synopsis: An overachiever enrolls in an experimental clone study to prove that two (of her own) heads are better than one in this …

ARC Review: I Come with Knives by S.A. Hunt

I Come with Knives by S.A. Hunt My rating: 4 of 5 stars Robin – now armed with new knowledge about mysterious demon terrorizing her around town, the support of her friends, and the assistance of her old witch-hunter mentor – plots to confront the Lazenbury coven and destroy them once and for all. Meanwhile, …

ARC Review: Burn the Dark by S.A. Hunt

Burn the Dark by S.A. Hunt My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars Robin is a YouTube celebrity gone-viral with her intensely-realistic witch hunter series. But even her millions of followers don't know the truth: her series isn’t fiction. Her ultimate goal is to seek revenge against the coven of witches who wronged her mother long …

ARC Review: Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Werther Dell’Edera & Miguel Muerto

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV My rating: 4 of 5 stars When children begin to go missing in the town of Archer’s Peak, all hope seems lost until a mysterious woman arrives to reveal that terrifying creatures are behind the chaos - and that she alone will destroy them, …

ARC Review: Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen

Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars Seventeen is nothing like Codi Teller imagined. She’s never crashed a party, never stayed out too late. She’s never even been kissed. And it’s not just because she’s gay. It’s because she and her two best friends, Maritza and JaKory, spend more …

Audiobook Review: The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman

The Devouring Gray by Christine Lynn Herman My rating: 4 of 5 stars Branches and stones, daggers and bones, They locked the Beast away. After the death of her sister, seventeen-year-old Violet Saunders finds herself dragged to Four Paths, New York. Violet may be a newcomer, but she soon learns her mother isn't: They belong …

ARC Review: The Perfect Escape by Suzanne Park

The Perfect Escape by Suzanne Park My rating: 3 of 5 stars Nate Jae-Woo Kim wants to be rich. When one of his classmates offers Nate a ridiculous amount of money to commit grade fraud, he knows that taking the windfall would help support his prideful Korean family, but is compromising his integrity worth it? …

ARC Review: Ghosted in L.A. Vol. 1 by Sina Grace, Siobhan Keenan & Cathy Le

Ghosted in L.A. Vol. 1 by Sina Grace My rating: 3 of 5 stars Daphne Walters moves to Los Angeles and finds that the only ones who can help her find love and live life to the fullest are the ghosts of her new home! In Los Angeles, finding an apartment is killer—unless you live …

ARC Review: The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp & Manuel Preitano

The Oracle Code by Marieke Nijkamp My rating: 4 of 5 stars After a gunshot leaves her paralyzed, Barbara Gordon enters the Arkham Center for Independence, where Gotham's teens undergo physical and mental rehabilitation. Now using a wheelchair, Barbara must adapt to a new normal, but she cannot shake the feeling that something is dangerously …