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 […]
Seventy-Seven Saturday: Crier’s War
For the first time, Ayla’s eyes flicked up to meet Crier’s, sending a sensation of shock through her. “It’s my job,” she said sowly, “It’s my job to – to serve the house of Sovereign Hesod. That includes you.” Page 77 snippet – Crier’s War OH, MY ACTUAL GODDESS! Is that section not just full […]
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: 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 […]
Waiting For Wednesday: Rick
SO As you know I loved George by Alex Gino so when I heard about this companion book I was SO HYPED. Rick’s never questioned much. He’s gone along with his best friend Jeff even when Jeff’s acted like a bully and a jerk. He’s let his father joke with him about which hot girls […]
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 […]
Waiting For Wednesday: The Gravity Of Us
I’m honestly a bit surprised that I haven’t already posted about this. I have been hearing about it everywhere for ages. I was so positive that I had already posted but think I got confused with Something like Gravity. As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to […]
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 […]
Waiting For Wednesday: We Unleash The Merciless Storm
We Set The Dark On Fire was one of the best books I read this year so far. I think of it all the time and I loved the way it was written. So, of course, I am thrilled about the second book! Being a part of the resistance group La Voz is an act […]
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: 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. […]
Waiting For Wednesday: Come Tumbling Down
By far the Wayward Children Series by Seanan McQuire is one of my favourites I have discovered this year. I absolutely loved each one with Beneath the Sugar Sky is probably my absolute favourite of them. So, of course, I am 159% *IN* for the latest in the series Come Tumbling Down. When Jack left […]
LGBTQIAA+ Representation in Dystopian and Utopian Fiction
I love Dystopian and Utopian fiction, I would even say that it might be my absolute favourite genre. Some of my favourites fall within this genre, The Giver, Hunger Games, Uglies, and Divergent. I could go on and on. Something that has really been bothering, especially in those books where the dystopia is hidden as […]
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: Hot Dog Girl
Elouise (Lou) Parker is determined to have the absolute best, most impossibly epic summer of her life. There are just a few things standing in her way: * She’s landed a job at Magic Castle Playland . . . as a giant dancing hot dog.* Her crush, the dreamy Diving Pirate Nick, already has a […]
REVIEW: Once & Future
I’ve been chased my whole life. As a fugitive refugee in the territory controlled by the tyrannical Mercer corporation, I’ve always had to hide who I am. Until I found Excalibur. Now I’m done hiding. My name is Ari Helix. I have a magic sword, a cranky wizard, and a revolution to start. When Ari […]
REVIEW: We Set The Dark On Fire
At the Medio School for Girls, distinguished young women are trained for one of two roles in their polarized society. Depending on her specialization, a graduate will one day run a husband’s household or raise his children, but both are promised a life of comfort and luxury, far from the frequent political uprisings of the […]
Waiting for Wednesday: Reverie
Reverie looks like everything I could ever want in a book! Contemporary fantasy! Daydream Magic! Drag Queen Sorceress! Oh My! This book looks like a rare gem of perfection, absurdity and romance! Inception meets The Magicians, except with better wigs and a maniacal drag queen sorceress attempting to unravel the reality of Connecticut (yes, the […]
Waiting for Wednesday: Rival Princes: A Fairyland Romance
Rival Princes: A Fairyland Romance looks so wholesome, wonderful and GAY! I am here for every moment of it! Like every moment! The three golden rules for new recruits at Fairyland Theme Park: 1. Guests must have a magical time2. No breaking character, even if you’re dying of heat exhaustion3. No falling in love Nate’s […]
Book Tour – Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories
With Author Interview of Michael Earp. What does it mean to be queer? What does it mean to be human? In this powerful #OwnVoices collection, twelve of Australia’s finest queer writers explore the stories of family, friends, lovers and strangers – the connections that form us. Compelling queer short fiction by bestsellers, award winners and […]
REVIEW: I Wish You All The Best
When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they’re thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents’ rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, […]
REVIEW: Bloom
Now that high school is over, Ari is dying to move to the big city with his ultra-hip band―if he can just persuade his dad to let him quit his job at their struggling family bakery. Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and […]
Waiting For Wednesday: Kindred: A Queer #LoveOzYA Anthology
I happily discovered Kindred through the Australia and New Zealand YA Blogger Community and instantly was interested! This just sounds great; YA, Queer, and Aussie! The first two things I love and the last I’ll tolerate (joking, joking, Aussie, you know I love ya)! I have already heard good things about this anthology from those […]
Waiting for Wednesday: I Wish You All The Best
I’m not sure where I first heard about this book, but as more details arrived so did my hype. ‘I Wish You All The Best’ is an own voices novel regarding nonbinary romance, and sounds so good. When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they’re thrown out of their house and […]
REVIEW: The Lost Coast
Danny didn’t know what she was looking for when she and her mother spread out a map of the United States and Danny put her finger down on Tempest, California. What she finds are the Grays: a group of friends who throw around terms like queer and witch like they’re ordinary and everyday, though they […]
F is For Friday: 26 April 2019
This week has included to statuary days off, Easter Monday and ANZAC Day, which makes this a short week with lots of reading time. I am continuing to do this Friday book blog meme created by Nomadic Worlds F – Feature your latest book obsession (it doesn’t have to be your current read) Every Heart […]
REVIEW: Red, White & Royal Blue
To say I was excited when I got this ARC is an understatement. I had really thought I wouldn’t get a chance to read this until June. Then I saw it on NetGalley and wished for it and St. Martin’s Press granted my wish. Dreams do come true! Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey […]
F is For Friday: 19 April 2019
It’s Good Friday but let’s be real every Friday is good am I right? So one I don’t have to work makes it Great Friday! As with last week, I am bringing you this Friday book blog meme created by Nomadic Worlds F – Feature your latest book obsession (it doesn’t have to be your current […]