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Red Flags Review

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  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Received as an arc from Netgalley "It's got 10 Things I Hate About You written all over it, and Cam knows this."  Red Flags by Sophie Jo is a young adult romance novel about two people discovering their way through the tangled notions they have about love and relationships. Poppy and Cam are both quick to judge and quick to end a relationship. When their friends, tired of their poor views towards romance, issue them each a challenge to not be the first to leave, they each see the other as a way to prove that they aren’t wrong about their negative beliefs about romance. Can they last together for two months or is there no hope for love for them?  Being fairly familiar with Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, I was pretty interested in reading a modern retelling. Sophie Jo’s Red Flags promised to be just that. Poppy is a feminist with set of rules for the type of guy she’s willing to date. Based on a Dream Man she developed after watching The Princess B...
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Ravens and Romantics review

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 received arc through Netgalley Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Who does she think she is/ writing about herself”   Once again Mercedes Paradiso has blessed poetry enthusiasts with another collection. Ravens and Romantics is a journey of betrayal and revenge, recovery and love. Every poem is accompanied by an illustration to deliver the words of the poem they follow.   Reading the digital arc version I was given only left me wishing for the physical copy to come out so I can fill it with highlights and tabs. Her words are both beautifully written and relatable. Paradiso uses poetry to tell the story relationships found and lost. Ravens and Romantics is poetry in a perfect range of emotion poetry can take. Using the power of word, Mercedes Paradiso explores the duality of people.   I definitely recommend Ravens and Romantics as well as Mercedes Paradiso’s other works.  
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Night Songs Review

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 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ I received Night Songs as an arc from NetGalley This review contains spoilers   Night Songs by is about Rhea and her journey to adulthood and exploring the life of a mother she never got a chance to know. When Rhea turns eighteen, she is given access to the true story of her mother and a family curse. Discovering her mother was actually famous country star Belle Powers and all women in her family die at 33 leads Rhea on a journey that will wind up revealing more than anyone could predict.   “You are not crazy. You’re cursed.” I found this book to be captivating at times and frustrating at others. The premise is intriguing. A family curse that only affects women? Who wouldn’t want to read that? Especially when Rhea is both discovering the curse, what it means to be an adult, and the truth of whom her mother truly was. Having said that, Night Songs focuses mainly on Rhea’s mother, Lullabelle/Belle. Most of the book follows her story of how she became a countr...
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The Skeleton Faerie review

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    Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐  I received The Skeleton Fairie as an arc from BookSirens "Long ago there was a cauldron that revived the dead."       Skeleton Faerie by A. P. Mobley is the first book in the Children of the Death Gods series. A dark mythological fantasy mixed with post apocalypse survival and romance, Skeleton Faerie promises excitement and mystery.      Gus Brandon is a young man trying to survive in a broken world. After the Nuclear War of 1989, humanity in America is barely evident. Plant enveloped wreckage as the only proof of what used to be with animals deformed from fallout. Gus’s obsession with fables and myths from the before times leads him to a destroyed library. While collecting new books to read, he meets Saoirse. From their mysterious meeting, everything becomes more hectic and fantastical.        I chose to get Skeleton Faerie, at first, based on the cover. After reading the synopsis, I felt a b...
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Battle of the Bookshops Review

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  Rating: ⭐⭐   I received this book as an ARC through Netgalley. Battle of the Bookshops by Poppy Alexander is available for purchase anywhere books are sold.      Battle of the Bookshops by Poppy Alexander is a women’s fiction romance following a young woman’s attempt at saving her great aunt’s bookshop from getting eliminated by the new bookshop built directly across the street by the son of her family’s rivals.      Julia, Jules, Capelthorne returns to her hometown of Portneath to assist her great-aunt Flo. Finding Aunt Flo injured, Jules is determined to stay and help. Jules also discovers that Capelthorne’s Books hasn’t been doing to well. When a new bookshop is opened across the street by Roman Montbeau, Jules sees red. The Montbeaus and Capelthornes have been feuding for years. This just adds to their division. When Jules starts to see Roman as more than just the bully she always knew him as, her life becomes even more chaotic.   ...
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The Resurrectionist Review

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  Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐   Received as ARC through Netgalley The Resurrectionist by Kathleen S. Allen is a young adult horror, coming of age book. The story follows a young Victorian era woman with a dream to become a surgeon in a society that refused to let women follow anything outside the tradition roles set in place.      Odile Rothbart, or Dilly as she's known as throughout the book, and her twin Deidre are left to figure out their way in life with only Edmund, their butler, to assist. Dilly attempts to follow her father as a surgeon. Deidre wishes to follow the traditional role of wife. Both find their dreams to be more difficult to achieve and their lives more convoluted. A captivating story of morality and death.          As soon as I read that it had been inspired by Frankenstein, I was overexcited to get a chance to read The Resurrectionist. The eye-catching covered helped to get my attention as well. I wasn’t disappointed. Beau...
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Thunder and Daisy Review

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 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thunder and Daisy by Mercedes Paradiso is a collection of poetry. Split into two chapters –Thunder and   Daisy- the poems contained within focus mainly on love and heartbreak.   Thunder and Daisy is a specific type of poetry called instapoetry. This is fairly obvious when reading the book. The poems are intersected with pictures to represent the poem that precedes it. I feel that the pictures aren’t necessary and the poems speak for themselves. The poems in Daisy broke away from the more simplistic ones in Thunder. Seeing the difference between the two chapters was a great way to not have the poetry seem repetitive.   I’m glad I read Thunder and Daisy. I didn’t enjoy every poem included but I could feel the emotions that were put into the entire book. If you’re a fan of poetry, I definitely recommend checking out Thunder and Daisy. Since Mercedes Paradiso includes her plan for releasing a book in the future that will be linked to Thunder and D...
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