Tag: young adult
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Review: Hush by Dylan Farrow
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Dylan Farrow’s debut YA fantasy, Hush, delves into a world wracked with plague, famine, and destruction. Writing and reading are strictly forbidden, as are specific words, phrases, and stories. Words have power, and Bards are those…
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Review: Surrender Your Sons by Adam Sass
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Adam Sass hits hard with this LGBTQ contemporary about a gay teen, Connor Major, who is sent to an island conversion camp after coming out to his mother. As if a conversion camp wasn’t bad enough, Connor…
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Review: Fable by Adrienne Young
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Adrienne Young’s newest novel, Fable, brings readers to a story of high stakes sea trade, secrets, and debts. Fable, daughter of a wealthy trader, was abandoned by her father after a shipwreck. She is determined to earn…
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Review: Twin Daggers by MarcyKate Connelly
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars MarcyKate Connelly’s newest book, Twin Daggers, pits technology against magic in a tale of star-crossed lovers. Readers follow Aissa and her twin, Zandria. Their magic is different in that it is able to affect both organic material…
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Review: Court of Lions by Somaiya Daud
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Somaiya Daud returns to the world of Mirage with its sequel, Court of Lions. Readers continue with the story of Amani, the girl stolen from her home to become a body double to the heir to the…
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Review: The Tea Dragon Tapestry by Kay O’Neill
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 5 stars Kay O’Neill’s third installment in the Tea Dragon series of graphic novels, The Tea Dragon Tapestry, continues with the previously established characters on a new story arc. I had already pre-ordered The Tea Dragon Tapestry before I…
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Review: Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
**I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Rory Power’s newest release, Burn Our Bodies Down, is part mystery, part horror, and all page-turner. Readers follow Margot Nielsen, who has grown up as the only child of a neglectful parent. Margot has asked her mother…
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Review: Unravel the Dusk by Elizabeth Lim
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** 4 stars Unravel the Dusk is the sequel to Elizabeth Lim’s well-received Spin the Dawn, which was marketed as Mulan meets Project Runway. As a sequel, this novel is very much difficult to review without spoiling the first book.…
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Review: Fragile Remedy by Maria Ingranda Mora
**I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Maria Ingrande Mora’s Fragile Remedy is part dystopian, part scifi, all unrepentantly queer. Gathos City was ravaged by a lung rot disease which led to the development of GEMs- Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogates. The GEMs provided…
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Review: The Unsound Theory by Emilia Zeeland
4 stars Emilia Zeeland introduces her STAR Academy series with this first novel, The Unsound Theory. A YA scifi, readers follow Yalena Russo, a girl of unknown origins who receives an invitation to attend STAR Academy. STAR Academy involves collegiate level studies on a space station that only invites 20 students per year. When Yalena…
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