Tag: 3.5 stars
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Review: The Promised Neverland Vol 1 by Kaiu Shirai
**spoiler alert** **I was provided an electronic copy from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Kaiu Shirai’s The Promised Neverland is a twisted fantasy manga. Readers follow Emma, Ray, and Norman (per VIZ translations to English) as they live in Grace Field House. Emma and Norman learn their orphanage…
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Review: A Sanctuary of Spirits by Leanna Renee Hieber
**I was provided with an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Leanna Renee Hieber continues her Spectral City series with book two, A Sanctuary of Spirits. The series follows Miss Evelyn “Eve” Whitby, medium and head of the secret Ghost Precinct instated by Governor Theodore Roosevelt,…
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Review: People of the Lake by Nick Scorza
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 stars People of the Lake is a YA mystery which borders a bit into suspense and thriller. Redmarch Lake was once a thriving tourist town, but now it is weighed down by secrets and unfriendly to…
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Review: The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted by Conor Grennan
**I received an electronic ARC of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 stars In Conor Grennan’s new novel, The Hadley Academy for the Improbably Gifted, there is a military academy for gifted kids somewhere off the coast of Maine. The gifted students, called improbables, defend civilians…
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Review: Resurrection Girls by Ava Morgyn
** I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 stars Ava Morgyn’s debut novel, Resurrection Girls, is a hard-hitting novel of grief and all that comes with it. Our main character, Olivia, has had her world ripped apart by the accidental drowning death…