February Month in Review

4 March 2017 / month in review / 19 Comments
February Month in Review

This post is linked up at the Monthly Round-Up Wrap-Up @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction. February posed a challenge when it came to staying on top of reading and blogging. I was travelling and offline for seven days of that […]

Review: Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

2 March 2017 / review / 2 Comments
Review: Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older

Author: Daniel José Older Title: Shadowshaper (Book 1) Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: June 2015 Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Length: 297 pages Genre: YA urban fantasy Why I Read: Heard DJO reading Rating: ★★★★ GoodReads | Indigo | Indiebound | Book Depository I don’t read urban fantasy. That was […]

Brief Thoughts: Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

20 February 2017 / brief reviews / 3 Comments
Brief Thoughts: Son of a Trickster by Eden Robinson

Everyone knows a guy like Jared: the burnout kid in high school who sells weed cookies and has a scary mom who’s often wasted and wielding some kind of weapon. Jared does smoke and drink too much, and he does […]

Cybils Nominees Feat. Multiple Narrators ( + Winners Announced!)

19 February 2017 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Cybils Nominees Feat. Multiple Narrators ( + Winners Announced!)

From October to December of last year, I read just over 50 middle-grade fiction books in my role as a round one judge for the Cybils. To share some of the Cybils nominees I’ve read, I’ve decided to create a […]

Review: When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin

8 February 2017 / review / 4 Comments
Review: When the Sea Turned to Silver by Grace Lin

Author: Grace Lin Title: When the Sea Turned to Silver Format/Source: Hardcover/Library Published: October 2016 Publisher: Little, Brown Young Readers Length: 370 pages Genre: Middle-grade fantasy Why I Read: Cover + premise Rating: ★★★★½ GoodReads | Indigo | Indiebound | Book Depository I had some trouble with this […]