Category: review

Ready or Not, Here IT Comes… [MG Review]

28 October 2020 / review / 3 Comments
Ready or Not, Here IT Comes… [MG Review]

Justin knows that something is wrong with his best friend.Zee went missing for a year. And when he came back, he was . . . different. Nobody knows what happened to him. At Zee’s welcome home party, Justin and the neighborhood crew play Hide and Seek. But it goes wrong. Very wrong. One by one, everyone who plays the game disappears, pulled into a world of nightmares come to life. […]

Can You Trust Your Shadow? [MG Review]

7 October 2020 / review / 2 Comments
Can You Trust Your Shadow? [MG Review]

Emmeline’s gift of controlling shadows has isolated her from the rest of the world, but she’s grown to be content, hidden away in her mansion with Dar, her own shadow, as her only company. Disaster strikes when a noble family visits their home and offers to take Emmeline away and cure her of magic. Desperate not to lose her shadows, she turns to Dar who proposes a deal: Dar will […]

“Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet” [NF Review]

4 October 2020 / review / 4 Comments
“Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet” [NF Review]

Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet by Tim HwangSource: ebook/NetGalleyPublished: 13 Oct. 2020Publisher: FSGO x Logic (Macmillan)Length: 176 pages Genre: Non-fictionTarget Age: AdultI received a free copy from the publisher via NetGalley. 🍂 Author’s Twitter 🍂 David W. @ Goodreads review 🍂 PW review 🍂 Related: Digital Minimalism Review ✍️ Subprime Attention Crisis is one of four titles launching on Tuesday October 13 that comprise a collaboration between publishing imprint FSG […]

A Debut MG Fantasy from a SFF Darling, or, Read This If You Love Middlegame [MG Review]

25 September 2020 / review / 11 Comments
A Debut MG Fantasy from a SFF Darling, or, Read This If You Love Middlegame [MG Review]

Avery is an exceptional child. Everything he does is precise, from the way he washes his face in the morning, to the way he completes his homework – without complaint, without fuss, without prompt. Zib is also an exceptional child, because all children are, in their own way. But where everything Avery does and is can be measured, nothing Zib does can possibly be predicted, except for the fact that […]

The Harm of Silence, Rumours, and Assumptions [MG Review]

19 September 2020 / review / 0 Comments
The Harm of Silence, Rumours, and Assumptions [MG Review]

Samantha Goldstein and David Fisher have been friends ever since they met on their town’s Little League baseball team. But when a new kid named Luke starts hanging out with them, what was a comfortable pair becomes an awkward trio. Luke’s comments make Sammie feel uncomfortable—but all David sees is how easily Luke flirts with Sammie, and so David decides to finally make a move on the friend he’s always […]