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  • Hello, Cruel Heart: a new Maureen Johnson story

    May 23, 2021May 23, 2021Book Reviews
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    Hello, Cruel Heart is Maureen Johnson's telling of Cruella De Vil's teenage years. It's a Disney story. Warning given.

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  • Before the round table with Cursed by Thomas Wheeler

    February 5, 2021February 5, 2021Book Reviews
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    I didn't know Cursed by Thomas Wheeler was adapted on Netflix or a King Arthur retelling when I started reading. Now I NEED to watch the series.

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  • Deathless Divide: a perfect sequel by Justina Ireland

    December 14, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    The sequel to Justina Ireland's Dread Nation is here. In Deathless Divide, Jane fights zombies, delusional scientists, sexism, and racism.

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  • Ending the story with The Pretenders

    September 15, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    I finally got a chance to read The Pretenders by Rebecca Hanover. It's the longed-for sequel to the science fiction YA novel, The Similars.

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  • Welcome to the blog tour: Lobizona by Romina Garber

    August 5, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    Manu grew up hiding as an undocumented immigrant in Miami. Until she learns more about her story and that she is a Lobizona. Join me on the blog tour of Romina Garber's new book.

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  • My review of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

    July 24, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    It's taken 18 months but I've tried re-reading An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green to write a proper review. I couldn't finish it on a re-read. Here's why.

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  • My Long List of Impossible Things that can’t be done after a war

    March 2, 2020December 18, 2020Book Reviews
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    We imagine a war ending to be celebrations and champagne, but Michelle Barker's new novel, My Long List of Impossible Things shows that it's anything but.

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  • Who will you rely on in the zombie apocalypse? Highway Bodies by Alison Evans

    December 22, 2019December 21, 2020Book Reviews
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    More than zombies, Highway Bodies by Alison Evans is a story of dealing with death, friendship, battles, and ... zombies in Melbourne.

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  • Two best friends in Skylarking by Kate Mildenhall

    November 11, 2019Book Reviews
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    Skylarking is Kate Mildenhall's debut novel and the story of friendship, love and loss growing up on a lighthouse island.

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  • Book Review: Dear Martin by Nic Stone

    November 3, 2019December 21, 2020Book Reviews
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    Justyce is heading to Yale and has a promising future, once he navigates growing up black in Dear Martin by Nic Stone.

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  • The Boy Who Steals Houses – and stole my heart

    September 9, 2019Book Reviews
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    In her second novel, CG Drews tells of Sam, The Boy Who Steals Houses. It's a powerfully-written story of homeless brothers and family.

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  • Dread Nation: I’d say zombies and Post-Civil War but it’s so much more

    July 29, 2019June 7, 2020Book Reviews
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    Dread Nation: A post-civil war historical novel, with added zombies. Justina Ireland has written a mostly historically correct novel.

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  • A semester of reading. Fluffy, non-academic reading

    July 13, 2019January 13, 2021Book Reviews
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    In among my grad school work it was a semester of reading fluffy books. These novels helped me get through my first semester.

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  • Living with your family in a van in Roam by CH Armstrong

    February 11, 2019February 11, 2019Book Reviews

    Abby is doing her best to start school afresh, and hide that she lives in a van with family in Roam by CH Armstrong.

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  • Would you attend boarding school with your clone? The Similars by Rebecca Hanover

    January 4, 2019September 13, 2020Book Reviews
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    When six clones join Emmaline’s prestigious boarding school, she must confront the heartbreak of seeing her dead best friend’s face each day in class. Technically true but The Similars by Rebecca Hanover is much more complex.

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  • A return to Weep in the Muse of Nightmares by Laini Taylor

    December 17, 2018December 20, 2018Book Reviews
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    Woohoo, the Strange the Dreamer sequel, Muse of Nightmares has been released. Laini Taylor's second book in the fantasy series is just as amazing.

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  • Deogratias: a Hutu boy in the Rwandan genocide

    November 10, 2018November 10, 2018Book Reviews

    The graphic novel of Deogratias by Jean-Philippe Stassen is released and tells the story of a teen boy in the Rwandan genocide.

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  • Dear Evan Hansen: the Novel

    October 8, 2018October 8, 2018Book Reviews
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    Broadway's Dear Evan Hansen has been converted to a beautifully written novel by Val Emmich. It's deep, and dark: everything a musical isn't.

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  • Reading Eleanor & Park for Banned Books Week

    September 25, 2018September 23, 2018Book Reviews
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    It's Banned Book Week so I'm reading Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell: a story of laughter, tears, awkwardness, and young love, and loss.

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  • Switching Places in The Pretender with Katie Ward

    September 18, 2018November 4, 2019Blog Tours, Book Reviews
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    The poor girl from an abusive home switches with the princess struggling to understand her role in Katie Ward's The Pretender.

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