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Sign Of The Slayer by: Sharina Harris
Published by: Entangled Publishing Publication Date: August 29 2023 This book is advertised as Fullmetal Alchemist meets The Vampire Diaries ad that feels pretty accurate. It’s also what drew me into the story. That’s my favorite anime after all. Add in that the main character is Black and I was sold! The FMA influence is strong. And there were some things about the vampires that I really…
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Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris
Full Metal Alchemist meets Vampire Diaries in this fun and clever dark academia series… My Review: Raven is a leader in their high school marching band They've been at a game, things didn't go as planned. Instead of travelling home safely, their bus came under attack- Now none of the band will ever be coming back. For Raven, this is the start of new views As it seems she has secrets that to…
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queenvreads · 1 year ago
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REVIEW: Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris
*Contains Spoilers*
2/5 ⭐⭐
**I have read and reviewed this book voluntarily and honestly. Thank you to NetGalley and Entangled Teen! **
When I first saw this book, the Buffy the Vampire Slayer-style description got me excited right away. Academia, vampires, curses – it sounded promising!
The concept of slayers, supernatural beings, magic, and pop culture references was super fun, but unfortunately, I had difficulty getting into the story.
The beginning felt so chaotic, making it challenging to follow the unfolding events. From the bus crash to the awkward initial interaction between Raven and Khamari, the story wasn't making much sense to me.
When we meet Khamari my initial reaction was that the author was going for that brooding, good-looking, mysterious male character like Angel from Buffy, who would eventually become the love interest. However, their romance felt like instant love without much substance, which bothered me personally – but that's just a matter of my preference, not the author's fault.
Additionally, the story presented fragmented ideas that never fully developed, making it hard to connect with the characters and their decisions. It felt like every scene just jumped to the next.. it was all very choppy for me.
In the end, I had to DNF this book. Despite having high hopes, it turned out to be a struggle to get through. I pushed myself, hoping it would improve, but unfortunately, the writing and characters didn't resonate with me as I had hoped. 🙏
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battyaboutbooksreviews · 1 year ago
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🦇 Sign of the Slayer Book Review 🦇
❓ #QOTD Vampires, werewolves, or witches? ❓ 🦇 Life has always been a little weird for Raven, but after her bus is attacked by a vampire, she accepts that it's about to get weirder. She's whisked away to a Slayer training academy, where she learned how to battle beasts that go bump in the night. It's not until weeks after she loses her friends that she realizes the man who saved her is a vampire prince—and that they have to work together to take down an even bigger threat. Can Raven play nice, or will her new powers, bloodlust, and need for revenge get in the way?
💜 The total Buffy the Vampire Slayer vibes this book was giving off totally snagged me. From the get-go, Raven's narration is very much like Faith's; all sassy, bittersweet snark. While that makes her a fun, engaging MC, it's a voice that can either get annoying fast or takes half a book to get used to. The concept of a vampire slayer academy seemed badass and entertaining, but the story doesn't focus much on the academy. Pretty quickly, Raven gets her first field mission, and though that should help the pacing, the story lags due to a mixed bag of concepts that aren't fleshed out well enough to matter.
🦇 The heavy world-building and mythology feel like too much. By the time readers get a grasp on one concept, they're forced to adjust to another. It might have helped if we stuck with Raven's POV, but introducing Khamari's POV as well forces readers to navigate vampire politics, too. Raven harbors so much animosity that she becomes a chaotic, pouty, annoying MC to follow. It's hard to relate to her (yes, I know it's fantasy fiction, but we should still relate to her grief, at the LEAST). It's also difficult to fall for Khamari, who comes off as another typical, broody vampire harboring a secret. The insta-love between them lacks any tension or appeal as well. With so many fragmented plot points and underdeveloped ideas, the story becomes difficult to follow very quickly. Names and information are repeated often enough to become annoying, too.
✨ The Vibes ✨ 🩸 Buffy Meets Vampire Academy 🩸 Snarky Faith-esque MC 🩸 BIPOC Author 🩸 Broody Vampire Love Interest 🩸 Dual POV
🦇 Major thanks to the author and publisher @entangled_publishing / @entangledteen for providing an ARC of this book via Netgalley. 🥰 This does not affect my opinion regarding the book.
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New Releases
A whole slew of books just as the school year is starting. After my bank recovers from Back-to-School shopping, maybe I'll pick up a few of these. Click below to read about all the books coming out this week.
Neverwraith by Shakir Rashaan Entangled: Teen
Being the new kid is always gonna land you in it. Yasir Salah isn’t like the other guys in his new suburban Georgia high school. Lately, he can feel something shifting in his body. Raw. Edgy. Volatile . Like his eyes changing colors and heat on his skin when some alpha bro comes for him…or how just a grin from the gorgeous, untouchable girl at school sends vibrations shooting through his entire body. Only it’s not just being at a new school. It’s a new town. New rules. New flow . And everything feels way smaller than his ex-life in Atlanta. All he can do is what he’s been keep a low profile and try to not be noticed…and keep his anger under control. But they never warned him. They never told him what he is. And they sure as hell didn’t tell him that the world is gonna need him.
All You Have to Do by Autumn Allen Kokila
In ALL YOU HAVE TO DO, two Black young men attend prestigious schools nearly thirty years apart, and yet both navigate similar forms of insidious racism. In April 1968, in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, Kevin joins a protest that shuts down his Ivy League campus… In September 1995, amidst controversy over the Million Man March, Gibran challenges the “See No Color” hypocrisy of his prestigious New England prep school… As the two students, whose lives overlap in powerful ways, risk losing the opportunities their parents worked hard to provide, they move closer to discovering who they want to be instead of accepting as fact who society and family tell them they are. 
Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris Entangled: Teen
High school is supposed to be about studying, socializing, and marching-band practice. Not fighting vampires. Then one night flipped my world inside out―now, my life sucks. But it isn’t all bad. I’m at a slayer academy, learning things like the real origin of vamps and how to make serious weapons out of thin air. Every last one of them will pay for what they did. I’m doing great. Until I come face-to-face with the actual vampire prince…and I’m not sure of anything anymore. Vampires are supposed to be soul-sucking demons. But Khamari is…something else. He’s intelligent and reasonable―and he seems to know things about me that could change everything. He’s also hiding something big, even from his own kind. And when a threat from an ancient evil is so extreme that a vampire will team up with a slayer to take it down, it isn’t just my need for revenge that’s at stake anymore. It’s the whole damn world.
My Father the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang Crown Books for Young Readers
San Jose, 1999. Jane knows her Vietnamese dad can’t control his temper. Lost in a stupid daydream, she forgot to pick up her seven-year-old brother, Paul, from school. Inside their home, she hands her dad the stick he hits her with. This is how it’s always been. She deserves this. Not because she forgot to pick up Paul, but because at the end of the summer she’s going to leave him when she goes away to college. As Paul retreats inward, Jane realizes she must explain where their dad’s anger comes from. The problem is, she doesn’t quite understand it herself. Đà Nẵng, 1975. Phúc (pronounced /fo͞ok/, rhymes with duke) is eleven the first time his mother walks him through a field of mines he’s always been warned never to enter. Guided by cracks of moonlight, Phúc moves past fallen airplanes and battle debris to a refugee boat. But before the sun even has a chance to rise, more than half the people aboard will perish. This is only the beginning of Phúc’s perilous journey across the Pacific, which will be fraught with Thai pirates, an unrelenting ocean, starvation, hallucination, and the unfortunate murder of a panda. Told in the alternating voices of Jane and Phúc, My Father, The Panda Killer is an unflinching story about war and its impact across multiple generations, and how one American teenager forges a path toward accepting her heritage and herself.
I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea
Henry Holt and Co.
There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she’s dreamed of and worked toward. With retribution on her mind, she surpasses her bitter and privileged peers, leaving broken bodies behind her on her climb to stardom. But even as undeniable as she is, Laure is not the only monster around. And her vicious desires make her a perfect target for slaughter. As she descends into madness and the mystifying underworld beneath her, she is faced with the ultimate continue to break herself for scraps of validation or succumb to the darkness that wants her exactly as she is—monstrous heart and all. That is, if the god-killer doesn’t catch her first. From debut author Jamison Shea comes I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me , a slow-burn horror that lifts a veil on the institutions that profit on exclusion and the toll of giving everything to a world that will never love you back.
The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu Quill Tree Books
Clementine Chang moves from Earth to Mars for a new start and is lucky enough to land her dream job with Dr. Marcella Lin, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer. On her first day of work, Clem meets Dr. Lin’s assistant, a humanoid AI named Kye. Clem is no stranger to robots—she built herself a cute moth-shaped companion named SENA. Still, there’s something about Kye that feels almost too human. When Clem and Kye begin to collaborate, their chemistry sets off sparks. The only downside? Dr. Lin is enraged by Kye’s growing independence and won’t allow him more freedom. Plus, their relationship throws into question everything Clem thought she knew about AI. After all, if Kye is sentient enough to have feelings, shouldn’t he be able to control his own actions? Where is the line between AI and human? As her past and Kye’s future weigh down on her, Clem becomes determined to help him break free—even if it means risking everything she came to Mars for. 
The Lightstruck (The Darkening #2) by Sunya Mara Clarion Books
Vesper Vale sacrificed everything to save her city from the cursed storm. After becoming a vessel of The Great Queen, Vesper awakes from a slumber three years after her life altering choice. What she finds isn’t a home freed from the terror of the storm, but one where its citizens are besieged by the even more sinister force of The Great King and his growing army of the lightstruck—once regular citizens who are now controlled by the ominous light encroaching on the city. And the people are all looking to Vesper, now revered as a goddess after her sacrifice, as their city’s only hope. To save the rings from the Great King, Vesper must contend with the obligations of being a deity to her people and the growing chasm between her and Dalca, the prince she swore never to love. Haunted by the guilt of their past choices and faced with the pressures of a city near ruin, Vesper and Dalca find themselves torn between the growing factions within the city and the royal court. But in order to save her city from the light, Vesper must face the power most outside of her control—the goddess within.
A Tall Dark Trouble by Vanessa Montalban Zando
Twin sisters Ofelia and Delfi know better than to get involved with magic. Their Mami has seen to that. After all, it was magic that cursed their family, turning love into a poison. Romance is off the table for the Sanchez women. They’ve seen the curse take hold enough times to know how that road ends. And yet. Sometimes a girl catches feelings and just can’t help herself. When Ofelia and Delfi begin having premonitions of a series of murders, the sisters know it is time to embrace their magical inheritance to get to the bottom of the mystery and save innocent lives. Teaming up with their best friend Ethan and with brooding detective-in-training Andres, the sisters set out to learn the truth. They just need to make sure Mami doesn’t find out what they’re up to. Meanwhile, in 1980 Cuba, Anita struggles with a different magical conflict. Her mother, Mama Orti, is a bruja who belongs to a secret coven of elders and Anita knows she will be forced to join the coven herself one day. She sees no escape, though the thought of staying and letting this future claim her is terrifying. Ofelia, Delfi, and Anita’s stories collide as each woman steps into her power and embraces who she truly is, refusing to be subdued by any person, coven, or curse. In this stunning YA contemporary fantasy, debut author Vanessa Montalban explores the interlocking struggles of three generations of women in one family. An unputdownable debut for anyone who roots for magic, sisterhood, and love. 
House of Marionne by J. Elle Razorbill
17 year-old Quell has lived her entire life on the run. She and her mother have fled from city to city, in order to hide the deadly magic that flows through Quell’s veins. Until someone discovers her dark secret. To hide from the assassin hunting her, and keep her mother out of harm’s way, Quell reluctantly inducts into a debutante society of magical social elites called the Order that she never knew existed. If she can pass their three rites of membership, mastering their proper form of magic, she’ll be able to secretly bury her forbidden magic forever. If caught, she will be killed. But becoming the perfect debutante is a lot harder than Quell imagined, especially when there’s more than tutoring happening with Jordan, her brooding mentor and— assassin in training. When Quell uncovers the deadly lengths the Order will go to defend its wealth and power, she’s forced to choose: embrace the dark magic she’s been running from her entire life or risk losing everything, and everyone, she’s grown to love. Still, she fears the most formidable monster she’ll have to face is the one inside. Brimming with ballgowns and betrayal, magic and mystery, decadence and darkness, House of Marionne is perfect for readers who crave morally gray characters, irresistible romance, dark academia, and a deeply intoxicating and original world.
Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim Knopf Books for Young Readers
One sister must fall for the other to rise. Channi was not born a monster. But when her own father offers her in sacrifice to the Demon Witch, she is forever changed. Cursed with a serpent’s face, Channi is the exact opposite of her beautiful sister, Vanna—the only person in the village who looks at Channi and doesn’t see a monster. The only person she loves and trusts. Now seventeen, Vanna is to be married off in a vulgar contest that will enrich the coffers of the village leaders. Only Channi, who’s had to rely on her strength and cunning all these years, can defend her sister against the cruelest of the suitors. But in doing so, she becomes the target of his wrath—launching a grisly battle royale, a quest over land and sea, a romance between sworn enemies, and a choice that will strain Channi’s heart to its breaking point. Weaving together elements of The Selection and Ember in the Ashes with classic tales like Beauty and the Beast, Helen of Troy, and Asian folklore, Elizabeth Lim is at the absolute top of her game in this thrilling yet heart-wrenching fantasy that explores the dark side of beauty and the deepest bonds of sisterhood.
Never a Hero (Monsters #2) by Vanessa Len HarperCollins
Despite all of the odds, Joan achieved the impossible. She reset the timeline, saved her family – and destroyed the hero, Nick. But her success has come at a terrible cost. She alone remembers what happened. Now, Aaron, her hard-won friend – and maybe more – is an enemy, trying to kill her. And Nick, the boy she loved, is a stranger who doesn’t even know her name. Only Joan remembers that there is a ruthless and dangerous enemy still out there. When a deadly attack forces Joan back into the monster world as a fugitive, she finds herself on the run with Nick – as Aaron closes in. As the danger rises – and Nick gets perilously closer to discovering the truth of what Joan did to him – Joan discovers a secret of her own. One that threatens everyone she loves. Torn between love and family and monstrous choices, Joan must find a way to re-gather her old allies to face down the deadliest of enemies, and to save the timeline itself. Vanessa Len’s stunning Only a Monster trilogy continues with this second installment, a thrilling journey where a secret past threatens to unravel everyone’s future.
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Review: Book: Sign of the Slayer- Sharina Harris
Title: Sign of the Slayer Series: Standalone Author’s Name: Sharina Harris Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC, Entangled: Teen Genre: YA Page Count: 464 Pages ISBN: 9781649373380 Author or Book Website: ​​Home – Sharina Harris Link to Amazon purchase page: ​​Amazon.com: Sign of the Slayer: Harris, Sharina: Books Link to Goodreads: ​Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris |…
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September Reading Wrap Up
I read 17 books in September with 5 arcs. My average rating was 3.5/5 ⭐️ but overall an okay reading month. Some new to me authors this month that I enjoyed were Natasha Bishop, Holly Jackson, Sharina Harris, Layne Fargo, Nisha Tuli and Sonora Reyes! My top reads are listed below: 📖 The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes 📖 They Never Learn by Layne Fargo 📖 Only For The Week…
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cocoawithbooks · 1 year ago
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Review: Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris
Welcome to my stop on the Sign of the Slayer book tour hosted by Hear Our Voices Book Tours! Thank you to Hear Our Voices and publisher Entangled Teen for including me. What’s Your Code Name? Are ya’ll ready to start prepping for #SpookySeason?! Good! But first, you must choose a code name. It can be a city, state or country. What will yours be? Let me know if the comments! You can call me…
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mediashadowreads · 1 year ago
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[ARC REVIEW] SIGN OF THE SLAYER BY SHARINA HARRIS
Book info ⭐ Name: Sign of the SlayerAuthor: Sharina HarrisRelease Date: August 29th 2023Edition: Ebook ARCPages: 464Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, Urban Fantasy Synopsis: High school is supposed to be about studying, socializing, and marching-band practice. Not fighting vampires. Then one night flipped my world inside out―now, my life sucks. But it isn’t all bad. I’m at a slayer academy,…
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Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris: Book Review
Eighteen-year-old Raven is a high school student in the marching band, has a normal social life and lives with her Grandma Lou in their small Texas town. On her way home from performing at an away game, her bus is attacked by an unidentified being. When she gets a better look, she doesn’t believe what she’s seeing. The monster that is killing her bandmates and friends is actually a vampire. The…
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sandythereadingcafe · 4 years ago
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REVIEW:
JUDGE’S GIRLS by Sharina Harris at The Reading Cafe:
‘wonderful, emotional story’
http://www.thereadingcafe.com/judges-girls-by-sharina-harris-a-review/
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What are some of your favorite book covers? 🍂📚 . Today we are excited to help reveal the STUNNING cover of Soul of the Slayer by Sharina Harris! 💜 The Gilded Ones meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer in this fast-paced, modern paranormal romance. ✨📚 . Mini synopsis: Raven is just your average college co-ed until the day she's attacked by rogue vampires. Now not only is she a reluctant vampire hunter for the Slayer Society, but she's walking a thin line between love and hate for the powers surging inside of her and one guy she thought she could trust...the same one who brought her to the society in the first place. . Make sure to add Soul of the Slayer to your TBR! Out on April 4th, 2023 from Entangled Teen. 💜 . 🍂INTL TOUR PRIZE🍂 To celebrate this cover reveal, one reader will win a $25 USD Amazon Gift Card!! . 🍂HOW TO ENTER - Like & leave a comment - Follow us, @sharinawrites, @entangledteen & @mtmctours . 🍂EXTRA ENTRIES - Invite friends to enter in different comments! - Visit #SouloftheSlayerMTMC for more beautiful posts! . Ends April 7th. Results announced on MTMC Tours' account. Not affiliated/endorsed by Instagram. . . #ireadya #readingismagic #readingbooks #bookishcommunity #readingforpleasure #bookishgirl #readergram #booksta #booktography https://www.instagram.com/p/CbvkQzLpnY5/?utm_medium=tumblr
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gillianfx · 5 years ago
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New Women's Fiction by Sharina Harris
New Women’s Fiction by Sharina Harris
(Im)perfectly Happy by Sharina Harris Genre: Women’s Fiction
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When four college friends formed the Brown Sugarettes Mastermind Group, they had very different goals—but matched each other in ambition. Yet ten years later they can’t help wondering what happened to the hopeful, confident, driven women they used to be—and how to get them back . . .
Radio personality Raina, known as “the black…
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Books by BIPOC Authors August 2023
🦇 I grew up surrounded by a melting pot of cultures, diverse communities, and unique experiences. Despite the different sources of those multicultural voices, their stories still covered universal topics of colonialism, migration, identity, and race. Each story was another flavor, another sweet spice adding to that melting pot. Today, we have books by BIPOC authors that put those unique voices to the page. If you're interested in traveling to different worlds, whether familiar or foreign, here are a few books by BIPOC authors to add to your TBR! 🦇
✨ Tomb Sweeping by Alexandra Chang ✨ The Dark Place by Britney S. Lewis ✨ Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okuson ✨ Accidentally in Love by Danielle Jackson ✨ A Council of Dolls by Mona Susan Power ✨ Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey ✨ The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America by Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson ✨ Hangman by Maya Binyam ✨ The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride (Historical Fiction) ✨ Under the Tamarind Tree by Nigar Alam ✨ Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas ✨ An American Immigrant by Johanna Rojas Vann
🧭 Forgive Me Not by Jennifer Baker 🧭 Two Tribes by Emily Bowen Cohen 🧭 A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars by Hakeem Oluseyi and Joshua Horwitz 🧭 Writing in Color: Fourteen Writers on the Lessons We've Learned (edited by) Nafiza Azad and Melody Simpson 🧭 Ghost Book by Remy Lai 🧭 The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang 🧭 Plantains and Our Becoming by Melania Luisa Marte 🧭 Forty Words for Love by Aisha Saeed 🧭 The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper 🧭 Take the Long Way Home by Rochelle Alers 🧭 Swim Home to the Vanished by Brendan Shay Basham 🧭 Actually Super by Adi Alsaid
✨ Never a Hero by Vanessa Len ✨ I Fed Her to the Beast and the Beast is Me by Jamison Shea ✨ The Infinity Particle by Wendy Xu ✨ Night of the Living Queers, edited by Shelly Page ✨ Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris ✨ Her Radiant Curse by Elizabeth Lim ✨ My Father the Panda Killer by Jamie Jo Hoang ✨ Barely Floating by Lilliam Rivera ✨Happiness Falls by Angie Kim ✨ A Tall Dark Trouble by Vanessa Montalban ✨ Neverwraith by Shakir Rashaan ✨ House of Marionne by J. Elle
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