This was my first Carly Spade book. Enjoyable! Some cheesy parts but actually a lot more fun than I thought it would be! Spicy Greek mytNetGalley ARC.
This was my first Carly Spade book. Enjoyable! Some cheesy parts but actually a lot more fun than I thought it would be! Spicy Greek mythology retelling, yes that sounds AWFULLY familiar but Spade really made it her own! The sci fi, time travel, cyberpunk aspect was really cool and unexpected! Time to go back and read the Contemporary Mythos series!...more
Really enjoyed this thriller! Told in alternating POVs and time periods, you don't know what happened until the very end! It was fast-paNetGalley ARC.
Really enjoyed this thriller! Told in alternating POVs and time periods, you don't know what happened until the very end! It was fast-paced and I didn't want to put it down! I was rooting for Summer and Leo! Some parts were a little predictable and some parts were a little far-fetched but I enjoyed the ride....more
I don't accept one part (view spoiler)[Isabelle's mother killing Margaret and getting away with it. I don't care if she was mentally ill. She needed tI don't accept one part (view spoiler)[Isabelle's mother killing Margaret and getting away with it. I don't care if she was mentally ill. She needed to be institutionalized. Unacceptable. (hide spoiler)] But I couldn't stop listening to this today after getting 30% through yesterday. I played mobile games and folded laundry just to listen. I can't not multitask when listening to an audiobook. I can't just sit in a chair and listen. So I found things to do. Lol...more
Aside from a typo or two and an inconsistency or two in the finished copy, this was a thoroughly enjoyablWon finished hardcover from BookishFirst.com!
Aside from a typo or two and an inconsistency or two in the finished copy, this was a thoroughly enjoyable middle grade Jewish mythological retelling. I thought Zach, Sandra, and Ash made a good team but yikes, what these twelve-year-olds (and an ancient demon) got up to!!! Surprisingly intense and violent! I know nothing of Jewish mythology so it was cool to learn a little bit about it and then turn it on its head! I have never read anything by Aden Polydoros before, had never even heard of him before reading the excerpt for this on BookishFirst. I thought the cover did well at showing the contents of the book, making it look very thrilling and for any tween, it definitely is! Any tween kid could read this and feel comfortable in it. This definitely felt like the start of a series to me...! For fans of Rick Riordan for sure and I'll bet you learn something new along the way!...more
Cute. Not my favorite. I was a youngun in the 90's, 9-10 in 1996, so a little bit younger than Priscilla was when Sam time traNetGalley ARC.
3.5 stars.
Cute. Not my favorite. I was a youngun in the 90's, 9-10 in 1996, so a little bit younger than Priscilla was when Sam time traveled. Which I was not expecting. I don't generally read the synopsis before starting a book. I'm sure I read the synopsis before requesting on NetGalley but that was awhile ago! I really liked Mrs. Jo and I wish Sam had seen her again in the present timeline....more
I enjoyed this new cozy mystery series! I had to speed up the audiobook to 1.75x as the narrator was a very slow speaker. But once I didNetGalley ARC.
I enjoyed this new cozy mystery series! I had to speed up the audiobook to 1.75x as the narrator was a very slow speaker. But once I did that, I was able to get into this cozy with Lyndsay and her family and her Caribbean-inspired cafe! Lyndsay also felt a bit young. Who is still talking about high school bullies at 27? I loved her grandmother! I will be reading the next book!...more
I actually liked this one better than the first one! There was a lot more like history and backstory of the goblins and that was really NetGalley ARC.
I actually liked this one better than the first one! There was a lot more like history and backstory of the goblins and that was really interesting....more
So fun, so sweet. Fat positive, enby positive, race positive, gay positive, even parWon Paperback ARC in BookishFirst.com Giveaway!
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So fun, so sweet. Fat positive, enby positive, race positive, gay positive, even parenting positive! If you love teenage fake dating, this is where it's at.
Bethany is a teenager with a dream. That dream is not basketball. Even though she is amazing at it. And her moms and sisters are all basketball legends or soon-to-be legends. Bethany wants to cook. But how do you tell basketball die-hards that you don't want to play ball?
That's just one aspect of this book. Another is that Bethany is known as "Cry-Baby Bethany" from a silly little incident freshman year that has carried through to junior year. But Bethany has discovered boys (and sex) aren't as icky as she thought and she's ready to discover more!
A plan is concocted between Bethany and twice-dumped-in-two-months quiet boy Jacob Yeun. A plan to figure how to be good girlfriends and boyfriends for other people. What could go wrong?
I laughed, I yelled, I cried. This was such a sweet YA romcom. The side characters were fun and enjoyable. This was my first Rebekah Weatherspoon novel but it surely won't be my last....more
If I were to classify it, I guess it would be dystopian so science fiction? I asked mWon Paperback ARC in BookishFirst.com Giveaway!
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If I were to classify it, I guess it would be dystopian so science fiction? I asked my husband if all books set in the future, even the near future, or an alternate present are considered science fiction and we weren't really sure?
In Forgive Me Not, if you are a minor and you commit a crime, any crime be it bullying straight up to murder (whether accidental or intentional), the victim and/or the victim's family are the ones who decide the offender's punishment. That...is pretty wild. I was deeply concerned with Letta's family and why they think she should be punished over an accident. Yes, the accident killed her 7-year-old sister (not a spoiler) but it was still an accident and she's only 15 years old. Seemed very extreme to me. And one of the choices was to put the offender through Trials to atone for their crimes. I would have liked more detail into all of the available Trials and more about the rest of the of the justice system set up in this book.
Overall, it was a good read and still showed the penchant for harsher punishments or punishments on general for Black or Brown people. It was a very interesting book!...more
Well, I liked this one a lot more than the first one. Huzzah! I liked that Margaret Nolan was not the only continuous main character. I'm also a suckeWell, I liked this one a lot more than the first one. Huzzah! I liked that Margaret Nolan was not the only continuous main character. I'm also a sucker for cults, fiction or nonfiction....more
Why was this so short?! I wanted everything for Frankie! But I read (listened to) this in an afternoon. I loved that Frankie was unapologetically sexuWhy was this so short?! I wanted everything for Frankie! But I read (listened to) this in an afternoon. I loved that Frankie was unapologetically sexual. GOOD. FOR. HER. She's been my favorite character through the trilogy so I was glad she got her own book and she got to dissect some of her feelings and wants and needs. I also really liked Samara and liked that TWO side characters from the previous books got their time to shine....more
I really liked Promise Boys. I liked that it was short and it had a slew of POVs but more because it was Won finished hardcover from BookishFirst.com!
I really liked Promise Boys. I liked that it was short and it had a slew of POVs but more because it was a mixed media format than because you needed to keep track of who was whom. A principal is dead and three young men of color are the suspects. These young men were not the only men of color in this private preparatory school but they became prime suspects for various reasons, each having some sort of altercation with the white principal prior to his being found murdered. It's juicy. It's a juicy story. I love how not all that you think is true, in numerous ways, in how characters are relating to other characters in this book. This prep school though was abysmal. No talking in class, in the halls, at lunch, they had to follow a blue line in the hallway like they're five-year-olds. It was messed up. That's now how you get upstanding, fine young men. To not be allowed to communicate with their peers, how weird is that?! An important part of school, public and private, is socialization. So this control freak of a principal I already didn't care about in this book! But the relationships that the characters created and fostered despite being in bad circumstances and hard to relate to situations was what made this book for me. I really enjoyed it....more
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