City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab is a middle-grade, supernatural fantasy book that I grabbed from the library after I surprisingly found it chilling there on the shelf. I remember looking it up a few days prior only to discover that the hold list for it was a mile long. So, when it popped into…
Hunting Prince Dracula is the second instalment in Kerri Maniscalco’s young adult historical fiction series, Stalking Jack the Ripper. I read the first book in June and picked up the second book this month as part of a buddy read with the brilliant and wonderful Nandini over at Unputdownable Books. I absolutely adored the first…
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith is a supernatural fantasy, alternate history novel that I picked up because I was in the mood to read a dark, vampire story that would also be fast-paced. Oh boy, not only did I not get what I was looking for, I also found myself utterly sapped of…
Bonfire by Krysten Ritter is a stand-alone mystery novel and the author’s debut release. I checked it out from my local library a few weeks ago probably for the same reason that many others did: I am a fan of Netflix’s Jessica Jones series, and I wanted to see what kind of story the main…
A Kill in the Morning by Graeme Shimmin is a British science-fiction, alternate history stand-alone novel that I picked up due to it’s badass, cult classic type of cover. I honestly didn’t even read the synopsis until after I checked it out. While the novel didn’t blow my knee-high sockies off of my tiny little…
The Invisible Thread by Yoshiko Uchida is an #OwnVoices Japanese non-fiction memoir that is written to be accessible for young adult readers. Ms Uchida was a renown Japanese-American author of children’s books, and in this book, she shares what her life was like prior to hers and her family’s forced relocation to the Japanese internment…
Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston is an #OwnVoices Japanese non-fiction memoir. It is the autobiography of the author’s time spent in a Japanese Interment Camp during the Second World War, when she was seven years old, and follows her life after her family was released. One of the first things that I noticed…
