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Book Review: Smash It! by Francina Simone

Inkyard Press TBP Sept 22nd 2020 368 Pages

Olivia “Liv” James is done with letting her insecurities get the best of her. So she does what any self-respecting hot mess of a girl who wants to SMASH junior year does. She makes a list—a F*ck It list.

Be bold—do the things that scare me.

Learn to take a compliment.

Stand out instead of back.

Now she’s got a part in her school’s musical production of…

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The Write Reads Tour | Book Review | The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips

Simon and Schuster Children’s TBP Dec 8th 2020 240 Pages

Beauty comes at a price. And no one knows that better than Ebenezer Tweezer, who has stayed beautiful for 511 years. How, you may wonder? Ebenezer simply has to feed the beast in the attic of his mansion. In return for meals of performing monkeys, statues of Winston Churchill, and the occasional cactus, Ebenezer gets potions that keep him…

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Book Review | Blog Tour |The Swordsman's Lament by G.M. White

Book Review | Blog Tour |The Swordsman’s Lament by G.M. White

Belasko thought he was beyond intrigues and machinations. But when the grief-stricken King demands vengeance, Belasko discovers he is expendable. His options are clear… find the real killer or satisfy the royal bloodlust.

With the forces of the palace mobilised against him he is thrust into the city’s bleak underbelly and must fight to discover the truth. With betrayal around every corner he…

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Book Review: Night Shine by Tessa Gratton

Book Review: Night Shine by Tessa Gratton

McElderry Books TBP Sept 8th 2020

In the vast palace of the empress lives an orphan girl called Nothing. She slips within the shadows of the Court, unseen except by the Great Demon of the palace and her true friend, Prince Kirin, heir to the throne. When Kirin is kidnapped, only Nothing and the prince’s bodyguard suspect that Kirin may have been taken by the Sorceress Who Eats Girls, a powerful…

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Book Review | These Vengeful Hearts by Katherine Laurin

Inkyard Press TBP Sept 8th, 2020 384 Pages

Whenever something scandalous happens at Heller High, the Red Court is the name on everyone’s lips. Its members–the most elite female students in the school–deal out social ruin and favors in equal measure, their true identities a secret known only to their ruthless leader: the Queen of Hearts.

Sixteen-year-old Ember Williams has seen firsthand the damage…

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Quick Five© Interview | Alison Stine

Quick Five© Interview | Alison Stine

Image from Publisher

Name: Alison Stine

Who is Alison?  An award winning author that has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post and many more.

Books:  Road to Winter, Supervision, Wait, Ohio Violence, The Protectors, Lot of My Sister, Trashlands

Buy:  Amazon, Barnes and Nobles

Why was it important to you to have a queer character in your story?

I didn’t consciously set out to make…

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Book Review: Left For Dead (DI Amy Winter #3) by Caroline Mitchell

Book Review: Left For Dead (DI Amy Winter #3) by Caroline Mitchell

Thomas & Mercer Published July 8th, 2020

A victim on display. A detective on the rails.

Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine’s Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace—until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin’s mouth.- Goodreads

This is the third book to the DI Amy Winter series. I did not know this when I requested…

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The greatest season of the year is coming. That’s right fall. And I am excited to do a Cover Love post to share all the new books that are coming out this fall.

If you are new here, I take time to express my love of some beautiful covers for new books coming out. You can a look at my beginning of the year cover love here and my spring cover love here .

Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera CR: Bloomsbury

Erewhon TBP Oct. 13, 2020 384 Pages

So who is ready to spend all the moneys or live at the library? Lol

What books are you all looking forward to?

COVER LOVE 2020 | FALL EDITION The greatest season of the year is coming. That's right fall. And I am excited to do a Cover Love post to share all the new books that are coming out this fall.

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Book Review: Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera

Book Review: Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera

Bloomsbury YA TBP Sept. 1st, 2020

Eury comes to the Bronx as a girl haunted. Haunted by losing everything in Hurricane Maria–and by an evil spirit, Ato. She fully expects the tragedy that befell her and her family in Puerto Rico to catch up with her in New York. Yet, for a time, she can almost set this fear aside, because there’s this boy . . .

Pheus is a golden-voiced, bachata-singing charmer,…

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Blog Tour | Book Review & Interview | Cherrington Academy by Rebecca J Caffery

Blog Tour | Book Review & Interview | Cherrington Academy by Rebecca J Caffery

As mentioned in the subject this post will contact both a book review and an interview 🙂

Book Review

SRL Publishing Published August 25th, 2020 272 Pages

Logan’s the new boy at Cherrington Academy, a boarding school that’s promised to provide him with a safe haven away from homophobic bullies and neglectful parents. He’s left all that 2000 miles away.

What he doesn’t expect Cherrington to provide…

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Blog Tour | Book Review | Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite by Zoraida Córdova (Editor), Natalie C. Parker (Editor) In this delicious new collection, you’ll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out―and going out for their first kill―and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night.

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  Roaring Brook Press TBP August 25th 2020 336 Pages

Black Love . .  be it between family, friends or strangers is a beautiful thing.  Kristina Forest’s latest book Now That I’ve Found You is a reminder that love comes in all forms, can be renewed and embraced at the hardest of times.

Now That I’ve Found You is about 18 year old Evie Jones , the blow she took on her career, the journey she takes to get it back and a boy who is there along the way.  This story is about love renewed but not only between people (family, friends and stranger) but for a craft/career.

There were three books that (are currently available for purchase or rent)I instantly thought of once I finished reading this one. Three books that display love on different levels between family, friends and strangers.

Disney-Hyperion TBP July 7th 2020 304 Pages

These books compliment Now That I’ve Found You extremely well and I highly recommend as your next read.  As I mentioned, the three books shown above are currently released and are available to read. HOWEVER, there are two other reads that appear to be just as a good compliment to Now That I’ve Found You .

Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera CR: Bloomsbury

It is important to understand that Black love is not just a complicated relationship due to the systematic racism that Black people face. Black Love is joy despite that constant heartache and Now That I’ve Found You as well as all of these books displays that.

Now That I’ve Found You releases on August 25th at major and independent bookstores as well as any store that sells ebooks. You can also request it at your local library (if they don’t have it tell them to get it)

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Book Tour | Now That I’ve Found You by Kristina Forest | Recommendations Black Love . .  be it between family, friends or strangers is a beautiful thing.  Kristina Forest's latest book…

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Book Review: Secret Crush Seduction by Jayci Lee

Book Review: Secret Crush Seduction by Jayci Lee

Harlequin Desire TBP Sept. 8th, 2020 224 Pages

Aspiring fashion designer Adelaide Song wants to prove she’s more than just a pampered heiress. All she needs is a little courage—and the help of deliciously sexy Michael Reynolds, her childhood crush and her brother’s best friend.

But when her secret crush turns into an illicit liaison, Adelaide realizes mixing business with pleasure spells trouble…

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Book Review: The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

Book Review: The Black Kids by Christina Hammonds Reed

Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers TBP Sept 1. 2020

Los Angeles, 1992

Ashley Bennett and her friends are living the charmed life. It’s the end of senior year and they’re spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. They can already feel the sunny days and endless possibilities of summer.

Everything changes one afternoon in April, when four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating…

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Book Review: The Ship of Shadows by Maria Kuzniar

Book Review: The Ship of Shadows by Maria Kuzniar

Penguin Published July 9th, 2020 288 Pages

Aleja whiles away her days in her family’s dusty tavern in Seville, dreaming of distant lands and believing in the kind of magic that she’s only ever read about in books. After all, she’s always being told that girls can’t be explorers.

But her life is changed forever when adventure comes for her in the form of a fabled vessel called the Ship of Shadows.…

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Book Review: Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh

Hamish Hamilton Published June 6th, 2019 288 Pages

Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta’s world upside down.

A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but as his once-solid beliefs begin to shift, he is forced to set out on an extraordinary journey; one that takes him from India to Los Angeles and Venice via a tangled route through the memories and…

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Book Review: The Raven and the Dove by Kaitlyn Davis

Amazon Digital Services LLC TBP: March 20th, 2010

A princess longing to be free…

On the dawn of her courtship trials, Princess Lyana Aethionus knows she should be focused on winning her perfect mate, yet her thoughts wander to the open sky waiting at the edge of her floating kingdom. One final adventure calls. Upon fleeing the palace, the last thing she expects to find is a raven prince locked in…