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Character Interview:: Regan & Evelyn from Chameleon Moon
Today I'd like to introduce you to Regan and Evelyn, two of the characters from RoAnna Sylver's queer, hopeful dystopia, Chameleon Moon. I have had this book on my TBR…
Author Interview:: Shanna Miles
Hello, friends, and welcome back to my author interview series! Today, I'm thrilled to bring someone else that I love on Twitter to my blog - Shanna Miles, author of…
Review:: Wild by Hannah Moskowitz
Zack Ramos is training for two things: being a parent to his twelve-year-old sister once his mother's early-onset Alzheimer's (the same kind he and his sister each have a 50%…
Review:: Noteworthy by Riley Redgate
It’s the start of Jordan Sun’s junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts in Noteworthy. Unfortunately, she’s an Alto 2, which—in the musical theatre world—is sort…
Review:: Shadowshaper by Daniel Jose Older
Sierra Santiago was looking forward to a fun summer of making art, hanging out with her friends, and skating around Brooklyn. But then a weird zombie guy crashes the first…
Review:: The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s a bone witch, a…
Review:: Everything Belongs to Us by Yoojin Grace Wuertz
In Everything Belongs to Us, two young women of vastly different means each struggle to find her own way during the darkest hours of South Korea’s “economic miracle” in a striking…
Character Interview: Hope in Nautical Dusk by Miri Castor
In Hope in Nautical Dusk, The Gift of Twilight flourishes within Opal Charm as winter descends on Dewdrop. Life was already rough before, but Opal’s got new obstacles to face…
Review:: Binti: Home by Nnedi Okorafor
In Binti: Home, it’s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year…
Review:: The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera
Pretty in Pink comes to the South Bronx in The Education of Margot Sanchez, a bold and romantic coming-of-age novel about dysfunctional families, good and bad choices, and finding the…
Review:: Piecing Me Together by Renée Watson
Piecing Me Together is a timely and powerful story about a teen girl striving for success in a world that too often seems like it's trying to break her. Jade…
Review:: Fearless by Shira Glassman
A newly out-of-the-closet band mom falls for an orchestra teacher while snowed in at All-State in Fearless. Lana Novak hasn’t played violin in over twenty years, her musical life these…
Review:: Flowers of Luna by Jennifer Linsky
“You are rude,” the woman said in Flowers of Luna, turning back to me, “and slow.” She put her hand on the hilt of her katana. “I wonder if such…
Author Interview with Maria Hollis
Maria Hollis is the author of the self-published Lillac Town series, The Melody of You and Me and The Paths We Choose. Maria Hollis could never decide what to do with her…