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In Stars in Your Eyes by Kacen Callender, Logan Gray is known as the bad boy of Hollywood, a great actor but not a great person. And then there’s Matthew “Mattie” Cole, the up-and-comer who everyone loves. So they’re an unlikely pairing when they’re cast as the two main characters in a queer romcom movie, … Read more
I finally read a book that’s on the adult fiction New York Times bestseller list! Well, okay, I’ve read books that meet that criteria before, but it was usually before or at the same time they hit the list, not after seeing it listed there for months and months on end. (Also, hitting the New York … Read more
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Juniper’s Christmas by Eoin Colfer. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Between Rick Riordan and Eoin Colfer, what is it with this year being the return of my childhood favorites? I don’t … Read more
In Fly With Me by Andie Burke, Olive is a nurse who is terrified of flying. Her first time on an airplane is awful, but when a fellow passenger has a medical emergency, she jumps into action and saves his life. However, people are filming her, and the video of what she did gets put … Read more
In Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree, Viv is an orc who is starting out her career as a mercenary, but it isn’t going as planned—on one of her first missions, she finds herself stabbed in the leg. In order to not be a liability to her crew, she has to convalesce in the small beach … Read more
What a quirky book! In Charming by Jade Linwood, Prince Charming is dazzling, charismatic, and talented at slaying dragons. He’s also, however, a criminal, making a habit of traveling the world and snatching fortunes out from under people’s noses. So when a chance meeting occurs between three of his victims—Doctor Emilia Rapunzel, Marie Blanche de Neige, and … Read more
What a quirky book! In Charming by Jade Linwood, Prince Charming is dazzling, charismatic, and talented at slaying dragons. He’s also, however, a criminal, making a habit of traveling the world and snatching fortunes out from under people’s noses. So when a chance meeting occurs between three of his victims—Doctor Emilia Rapunzel, Marie Blanche de Neige, and … Read more
I received a digital advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh by Rachael Lippincott. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general.In Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh, Audrey is in a rut after her boyfriend unexpectedly breaks up with her … Read more
Okay, the internet is wrong. If you read just one dragon book this year, don’t read Fourth Wing. Read this instead! (Like, Fourth Wing was okay, but it pales in comparison to this.) In To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose, fifteen-year-old Anequs has grown up on the island of Masquapaug. This place hasn’t seen dragons in centuries, … Read more
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In Thornhedge, Toadling is a foundling, separated from her human parents and raised by fairy creatures. She is sent back, however, to … Read more