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ARC Review - Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez

ARC Review – Furia by Yamile Saied Méndez

I am several days late with this review (sorry, Algonquin!), but I am SO EXCITED to tell you about this book! I’ve never read anything like it, and I just want more. This was a blog tour I couldn’t pass up, even though I’ve been busy! And it’s Reese’s YA book club pick for September, too!

In Furia, Camila Hassan is an Argentinian teenager who just wants to be a futbolera – a woman who plays…

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ARC Review - These Vengeful Hearts by Katherine Laurin

ARC Review – These Vengeful Hearts by Katherine Laurin

I am SO excited to be part of the blog tour for the recently release YA novel These Vengeful Hearts! It’s like Pretty Little Liars with a dash of Mean Girls and I was INTO this premise. And I wasn’t disappointed!

In These Vengeful Hearts, Ember Williams has one goal in her high school career – get recruited into the Red Court and then dismantle it from within. The Red Court is a secret…

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Book Review - Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Book Review – Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

I am… going to potentially have some trouble really putting this book into words. I finished it YESTERDAY but I knew that if I waited to review it, it would lose some of its power for me. And it was incredibly powerful, especially in light of the death of beloved actor Chadwick Boseman, whose turn as Black Panther, Jackie Robinson, James Brown, and Thurgood Marshall were groundbreaking and…

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ARC Review - The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim + Blog Tour!

ARC Review – The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim + Blog Tour!

It’s been a while since I’ve done a blog tour, but this is a book I wanted to promote! Thank you to the publisher for reaching out to me and thank you for including me in the blog tour! I’m seriously so excited.

In The Last Story of Mina Lee, we get two stories – Mina Lee’s story from the late 1980s as a new, non-English-speaking resident of Los Angeles from South Korea; and Margot Lee’s story…

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Book Review - Flashed by Zoey Castile

Book Review – Flashed by Zoey Castile

I was supposed to post this last week and I just? Couldn’t? Because I loved it SO MUCH and have SO MANY FEELINGS that I needed a week away from my blog to process it. Does that sound pathetic? It feels a little pathetic, but LISTEN, I am who I am. Let’s just. Let’s get into it.

In Flashed, Patrick Halloran is eight months out from a terrible car accident that almost killed his brother and left…

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Book Review - Hired by Zoey Castile

Book Review – Hired by Zoey Castile

Did I find this book to be even better than the first in the series?? Maybe!? Ughhh it’s SO GOOD!! When is Zoey Castile going to have a new romance series! I need it already! But okay, here we go.

In Hired, Aiden Rios has left Mayhem City thinking that he was going to open his own show. But then his investor backed out, and he had already ghosted the group, so he set off on his own path… as an…

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Agent Carter Season 2, Episode 1 - The Lady in the Lake

Agent Carter Season 2, Episode 1 – The Lady in the Lake

Season two!! It’s my first season two of a show I’m reviewing, y’all! Progress is being made, slowly but surely. There’s a bit of a different vibe to the first episode of season two of Agent Carter, and I think there’s a simple reason why – the shift from New York to Los Angeles. Let’s get started!

Highlights

A woman who is dressed like Peggy Carter in the first episode of Season one –…

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Veronica Mars Season 1, Episode 20 - M.A.D.

Veronica Mars Season 1, Episode 20 – M.A.D.

I’m going to be very honest with all of you – I hate this episode. I hate it with every fiber of my being, and if you don’t know why, don’t worry, I’m going to explain it to you. I don’t know yet if I have it in me to write an interlude on it, but I have the fodder to do so if I have the time and energy. Because this is an example of an episode that DID NOT AGE WELL. So, ugh. Let’s just get into…

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Book Discussion - How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Book Discussion – How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

I’ve been thinking about this for several months, and I made a post about wanting to read more nonfiction and be more informed. I know better than to believe that I can “review” a book like this, or anything hard-hitting and uncomfortable and difficult for me in the way I review fiction. So I’m not going to do that.

What I am going to do is try to find discussion questions and answer a…

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Book Review - Stripped by Zoey Castile

Book Review – Stripped by Zoey Castile

THIS SERIES!!! It’s no secret that Zoey Castile is the romance pen name for Zoraida Córdova, and I could FEEL Córdova’s writing in this book. I love it. I loved every second I spent reading it. I’m very excited to talk about it!

In Stripped, Robyn Flores is an exhausted teacher who seems to have lost control of her life. She can’t sleep, so her work and friendships are starting to fall apart,…

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Agent Carter Season 1, Episode 8 - Valediction

Agent Carter Season 1, Episode 8 – Valediction

IT’S THE SEASON ONE FINALE, Y’ALL!! When I was watching, I wasn’t sure how they’d wrap everything up in 8 episodes, but they actually did a decent job. So let’s just get into it.

Highlights

We start with the SSR investigation into all the deaths at the theater.It’s bananas – their eyes are clawed out and they were biting each other. One of the local cops says that he thinks it was a…

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Veronica Mars Season 1, Episode 19 - Hot Dogs

Veronica Mars Season 1, Episode 19 – Hot Dogs

We are getting SO CLOSE to the season finale! This is one of those episodes that was entirely designed to drag things out juuuuuuust a little bit more, so let’s just dive right in.

Highlights

Veronica is helping Weevil with his math homework. Weevil asks Veronica some questions about who she thinks killed Lilly, and Veronica basically just says that she knows it wasn’t Abel Koontz. Mr. Mars…

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Reading Rush Recap

Yo! So my Reading Rush didn’t go exactly as planned, as I was under the weather for much of the week. But I was still able to complete five of the seven challenges! So let’s run through how things went.

Book that Starts with “The” – Not Completed

Book that is the Same Color as My Birth Stone – Completed with They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Book from My Least Read Genre – Completed with

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Book Review - A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole

Book Review – A Prince on Paper by Alyssa Cole

Finally. FINALLY. I’ve been waiting to review this one, but I wanted to put them in order. And this one deserves to be at the end, because Alyssa Cole truly saved the best for last with this one, when it came to the Reluctant Royals series. So let’s do this.

In A Prince on Paper, Nya Jerami is not pleased to be returning to Thesolo. She’s going back for her dear friend’s wedding to the Prince…

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Agent Carter Season 1, Episode 7 - Snafu

Agent Carter Season 1, Episode 7 – Snafu

This was another action-packed episode, which is why I’m literally writing this immediately after watching. I would definitely miss things in any other scenario – and I still might! Hopefully not. Let’s dive right in – this is the penultimate episode of season one, so it’s a big one!

Highlights

Peggy Carter is being questioned by Souza.In the room on the other side of the one-way…

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Veronica Mars Season 1, Episode 18 - Weapons of Class Destruction

Veronica Mars Season 1, Episode 18 – Weapons of Class Destruction

I waited on this episode partly because it has one of my favorite Veronica Mars scenes of all time in, and I wanted to do it justice. But also! Life has been busy. My quarantine has been more eventful than I thought it would be, meaning I’ve had less time to do my hobbies than I anticipated. But that’s okay. Life goes on, the world keeps turning, and all that. So let’s get into this one!

Highlights

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Novella Review - Can't Escape Love by Alyssa Cole

Novella Review – Can’t Escape Love by Alyssa Cole

I loved this one almost as much as I loved the last novella, and I’m just so happy that Alyssa Cole WROTE these novellas so some of our favorite side characters could get their happy endings too. This time it’s Regina Hobbs, Portia’s twin sister, who gets to find her happy ending. I also loved that this story was happening in a parallel time frame as Portia’s story in Duke by Default.

In Can’t…