#24’s Result – The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea is a young adult fantasy – AND it’s told in first person. You probably know how I feel about YA fantasy and first person, so. Yup. I allowed that stunning cover to lure me in. But! I can see why this one might stand out a bit. There were a […]
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The Beautiful Something Elseby Ash Van OtterlooSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: May 2023Publisher: Scholastic PressLength: 271 pages Genre: ContemporaryTarget Age: +8Representation: Assorted queer identities incl nonbinary, trans woman, unlabelled aro/ace I previously read Van Otterloo’s debut Cattywampus but have yet to pick up their sophomore novel A Touch of Ruckus. Both of those stories have a good dose of magic about them. This one is not magical (well, there’s a touch of it in the lightest gentlest mostly […]
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After the Forestby Kell WoodsSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: Sept 2023Publisher: Tor Books (MacMillan) Length: 370 pagesGenre: Historical fantasyTarget Age: Suitable for +14 Summary 💬 Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour. A drop of blood to bind its power. 1650: The Black Forest, Wurttemberg. Fifteen years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies […]
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Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is Most Anticipated Books Releasing in the First Half of 2024. At the end of December, I had few 2024 releases on my TBR. Then lots of bloggers posted their list of anticipated 2024 reads (ex. Aquavenatus, Every Book a Doorway, A Literary Escape), and my TBR grew. Since I only have 15 books releasing between January and June this year on my TBR, I’m listing […]
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The Bellwoods Gameby Celia KrampienSource: Hardcover/libraryPublished: July 2023Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers (S&S)Length: 305 pages Genre: HorrorTarget Age: +9Representation: Supporting characters incl Black boy and Hispanic girl coded autistic Summary 💬 Everyone knows Fall Hollow is haunted. It has been ever since Abigail Snook went into the woods many years ago, never to be seen again. Since then, it’s tradition for the sixth graders at Beckett Elementary to play the Bellwoods Game on […]