Bright Ruined Things Book Review

by Courtney Meunier | Feb 20, 2022 | ARC, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, YA fantasy

By Samantha Cohoe Bright Ruined Things (ARC Book Review) The Tempest meets The Great Gatsby in Bright Ruined Things, a new fantasy YA novel from Samantha Cohoe. Mae has never truly belonged on the island she grew up on, a source of great magic owned and controlled by...

Amelia Unabridged (ARC Review)

by Courtney Meunier | Apr 23, 2021 | ARC, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, YA contemporary, YA fantasy

By Ashley Schumacher Amelia Unabridged (ARC Review) After the sudden and tragic death of her best friend Jenna, Amelia receives a special edition copy of the first book of the fantasy series that brought them together. Grappling with her grief and the looming future...

The Mall ARC Review

by Courtney Meunier | Jul 21, 2020 | ARC, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, YA Historical Fiction

By Megan McCafferty The Mall (ARC Review + Blog tour stop) A heavy dose of early-’90s nostalgia, “The Mall” takes us back into a time period when six-thousand square feet of stores could provide the setting for a teenager’s entire social life, including...

What Unbreakable Looks Like ARC Review

by Courtney Meunier | Jun 23, 2020 | ARC, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, YA contemporary

By Kate Mclaughlin What Unbreakable Looks Like What Unbreakable Looks Like is a novel unafraid to explore the topic of human trafficking and its impacts on victims.  Poppy…Alexa…Lex…was trafficked. But now she’s free. Except she can’t help thinking about...

Only Mostly Devastated ARC Review

by Courtney Meunier | Mar 3, 2020 | ARC, Book Review, Bookish Blog, Featured, YA contemporary

By Sophie Gonzales Only Mostly Devastated (ARC Review) This book had me at ‘Gay Grease…’ Only Mostly Devastated follows Ollie after he finds out that he’s moving to the town nearby his summer fling. Excited at first to meet again, Ollie quickly sees that...