I stumbled across this book looking for The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants books on Overdrive because the cover reminded me so much of them — the jeans with a purple background. Then I Googled it and saw it had a really high rating on Goodreads, so I thought I would give it a shot. This is the story of an overweight teenager and her struggles with her really, REALLY shitty family. As far as body positivity novels go about overweight teens, it falls somewhere […]
For the night is dark and full of terrors
Disclaimer! I recieved an ARC copy of this through NetGalley. That has in no way influenced my review. Pyotr Vladimirovich is a boyar, the lord of northerly and remote Lesnaya Zemlya in medieval Russia. A part of the world where the winters are long and harsh and isolate the populace, it’s no wonder that the cold, dark nights are spent telling fairy stories, like those of Morozko or Lord Karachun, the Frost demon himself – who sometimes rewards those who are brave and pure of […]
These Dead Run
I did not like this book at first, and I almost gave up on it. This is by the same author that wrote Truthwitch, which I did not like as much as other people seemed to. I kept at this book, mostly because I was sitting by the pool and had not brought another book. Around page 50 things picked up and I ended up staying up way too late that night finishing it. Eleanor Fitt’s brother is missing and the Dead are walking. Apparently […]
If you love Our Lady of Skepticism, don’t read this.
I mean, I hate to be that person, but Hashtag Not My Scully (#NotMyScully). I wasn’t precisely looking forward to this book, despite being the owner of a beyond huge X-Files obsession that permeated my adolescence, but it seemed like a fun idea, if executed properly. I wasn’t as worried for the Mulder one in this pair of books, because his story as a teenager practically writes itself. Also, Kami Garcia seemed like a good choice. She knows the genre, and is successful in it. […]
I had my Deathday and all I got was this lousy quest
Alex Mortiz is a bruja* and really doesn’t want to be one. She comes from a long line of brujas and brujos. Both her older and younger sisters have come into their gifts, but Alex is low-key hoping hers don’t kick in. Magic has never made anything in Alex’s life better; in fact, it has been key in making a lot of things worse. Alas, if Alex’s powers never came in, this would be a very short story. When they emerge in full force, Alex […]
The Power of Words
Jacqueline Woodson’s 2014 poetic memoir Brown Girl Dreaming won a slew of awards: a National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Coretta Scott King Award, a Newbery Honor, an NAACP Image Award, just to name a few. It is the beautifully told story of Woodson’s childhood, of the people and environments that formed both her and her dream of becoming a writer. It also offers glimpses into the civil rights movement and the experience of racism through the eyes of a child who witnessed […]
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