My Thoughts: There are very few times that a review of a book hypes me up as much and this review hyped me for this book. This is one of the few books I knew about and wanted when I opened my Owl Crate Box in October. I knew I wanted to read it and […]
REVIEW: The Toll
My Thoughts: This was one of my most anticipated reads this spring and it honestly did not disappoint. Also, I am so happy to no longer include this book in my Dystopian novels with no Trans rep. This book we are introduced to Jerico, a new character with their own perspective who identifies as Male […]
REVIEW: Dark and Deepest Red
My Thoughts: I cannot even begin to tell you exactly how much I love this book. Which really should not surprise you as Anna-Marie McLemore is the deity of Magical Realism. Their writing style is so beautiful and evocative it makes our own world feel a tad bit more magical. Dark and Deepest Red was […]
REVIEW: Call Down The Hawk
My Thoughts: As I stated in my Waiting For Wednesday post for Call Down The Hawk, I am a latecomer to The Raven Cycle, but goodness did I fall hard for these all. Especially Adam and Ronan and their slow-burn romance. I think I whooped out loud when they finally kissed. This was definitely one […]
REVIEW: Gideon The Ninth
My Thoughts: This book had me at Lesbian Necromancers in Space. LESBIAN! NECROMANCERS IN SPACE!!! Then I find out it’s written by a kiwi as well and I simply needed to read this. I can say rather solidly that it did not disappoint. I love how we start this book right in the deep end. […]
REVIEW: Undead Girl Gang
My Thoughts: I had heard mixed reviews of this book but decided to give it a go, because if you have known me for even a second; lesbian witches is something I’m in for ALWAYS. I didn’t expect to cry as often as I did in this book. In the long run, this book was […]
REVIEW: Pumpkinheads
My Thoughts: Okay, I feel like I’m a minority in this as I didn’t enjoy this as much as I thought I was going to. I really wanted to but it just, in the end, was a real let down for me. The story starts out cute and while the ending is also cute there […]
REVIEW: The House Of Brides
My Thoughts: I have to say I wasn’t really sure what to expect of this book. It was described as a modern Jane Eyre or Rebecca. Now shamefully I haven’t read Rebecca, but Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books. It was with this in mind that I requested this book. I also somehow […]
REVIEW: Love from A to Z
My Thoughts: From the moment I heard about this book I knew it was one I wanted to check out! IT DID NOT DISAPPOINT! I loved so much about this adorable romance, the fact that it’s from a perspective we don’t often see. The fact that it was about a hijab wearer and written by […]
REVIEW: Cannonball
My Thoughts: This is such a hard review to write because on one hand I really enjoyed many aspects of this story. One the other I absolutely HATED the main character. She treats her friends as rubbish, she’s elitist and entitled. Even when she has succeeded she’s bitter and grumpy. I just wanted to shake […]
REVIEW: Her Royal Highness
My Thoughts: I have to say when I first started this book I wasn’t sure I was going to like it. I found millie at times a rather annoying narrator. I personally really found the setup scenes boring just take me to Scotland already! Besides the ex and one of the friends the other friends […]
REVIEW: George
My Thoughts: I was a little nervous about how this book would go, especially as it is middle-grade. But I had heard some very good things about it from people I trust (ahem Star). THIS WAS THE MOST CINNAMON ROLL SWEETNESS I COULD EVER IMAGINE. It was everything I hoped for and everything I ever […]
REVIEW: Heartstopper Volume 2
My Thoughts: So it’s no secret that for the most part, I loved Heartstopper Volume 1, and for the most part, was just disappointed in the ending. Luckily Volume 2 picks pretty much right up after that and we don’t lose any time. I am o happy with everything that happens in this volume and […]
REVIEW: Sadie
My Thoughts: First off I listened to the audiobook for this and while this isn’t something I often mention when I have done so, this case is different.* The audiobook takes this book to the next level with a full cast of talented voice actors everything is 1000% better. Sadie alternates between chapters of a […]
REVIEW: What She Never Said
My Thoughts: First off I want to say that while this is a second in a series it reads as a stand-alone because the setting is the reoccurring character here. Never have I read a book so much where I spent the first third of the book wishing the murderer would kill the main character. […]
REVIEW: Dreadnought
My Thoughts: I came across this book in my recent search for good transgirl YA, the same search that turned up “If I Was Your Girl.” Luckily for me, this one turned out much more positive. Here we are presented with a much younger character just starting out her journey. Through superhero magic, Danny is […]
REVIEW: Wayward Son
My Thoughts: This is a hard book to review because while I like it a lot, I’m not sure many readers of Carry On will. Don’t get me wrong it is a very good book, but also a very different type of book from Carry On. Which I think is appropriate. Simon, Penelope, Agatha, and […]
REVIEW: The Absolute Book
My Thoughts: It is so rare that I read a book that has me left in tears and astounded by the time I have finished it, yet I also want to start it all over again because I am POSITIVE that I have missed things. The Absolute Book is one of those books. At 653 […]
REVIEW: The Unhoneymooners
My Thoughts: I’m not really sure why I picked this up besides what I can only describe as fantasy fatigue. I had just finished We Hunt The Flame and the Grisha Trilogy when I saw this on Scribd. I had heard mixed reviews on it but thought the overall concept was good and we all […]
REVIEW: Frankly in Love
My Thoughts: First off, I absolutely adore the fact that the title is a pun on Frank Li’s name like that’s just perfect. Secondly, fake dating is my all-time favourite ever romance trope. So, of course, I was totally in for this diverse cute romance. YOU GUYS I WAS PLAYED! I got more than a […]
REVIEW: Heartstopper
My Thoughts: This sweet graphic novel came highly recommended by Sarah of Sarah Says, during our Queer Book Chat over on the AusYABloggers Blog. She is definitely someone I trust so I just had to pick it up! I am so very glad that I did, first of all, the art style is so very […]
REVIEW: Legacy
My Thoughts: I read this book as part of the Aussie and Kiwi YA Bloggers August buddy read, which I was hosting. You can read the blog post and check out the chat questions over on the blog. I’ll be honest as this is a hard book to write about as I am not a […]
REVIEW: We Hunt The Flame
My Thoughts: This book! You guys I was so excited about this book that when I saw it in my Owl Crate I squealed like actually and completely squealed. It was so loud that my dog barked along thinking I might be dying or something. I then put it on my shelf to wait until […]
REVIEW: Extraordinary Birds
My Thoughts: This sweet Middle-Grade novel was originally recommended by Kelly. I was searching for some good trans fiction and Kelly had just read this one. I’m not a big reader of Middle-Grade fiction, so I wasn’t sure ho I would like this. OMG did it just rip my heart out of my body and […]
REVIEW: Sorcery of Thorns
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. […]
REVIEW: Wilder Girls
It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put under quarantine. Since the Tox hit and pulled Hetty’s life out from under her. It started slow. First the teachers died one by one. Then it began to infect the students, turning their bodies strange and foreign. Now, cut off from the rest […]
REVIEW If I Was Your Girl
Amanda Hardy is the new girl in school. Like anyone else, all she wants is to make friends and fit in. But Amanda is keeping a secret, and she’s determined not to get too close to anyone. But when she meets sweet, easygoing Grant, Amanda can’t help but start to let him into her life. […]
REVIEW: These Witches Don’t Burn
Hannah’s a witch, but not the kind you’re thinking of. She’s the real deal, an Elemental with the power to control fire, earth, water, and air. But even though she lives in Salem, Massachusetts, her magic is a secret she has to keep to herself. If she’s ever caught using it in front of a […]
REVIEW: Starworld
Sam Jones and Zoe Miller have one thing in common: they both want an escape from reality. Loner Sam flies under the radar at school and walks on eggshells at home to manage her mom’s obsessive-compulsive disorder, wondering how she can ever leave to pursue her dream of studying aerospace engineering. Popular, people-pleasing Zoe puts […]
REVIEW: As Sweet As Honey
Chelsea Lambert is an unhappy receptionist, working for Honey, a glitzy dating website that she thinks is more than a bit sleazy. But she’s got bills to pay, especially if she wants to avoid her manipulative aunt’s clutches. She didn’t plan on spilling her views on Honey to the handsome stranger who rescued her from […]