🍂People Watching 🍂 Hannah Bonam-Young ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Prudence Welch is living a quiet, introverted life in a Canadian small town, working for her father at the family gas station and caring for her mother, who was diagnosed with Early Onset Alzheimer’s. But when adventurous stranger Milo visits town to help out his brother and his path […]
The Enemy’s Daughter ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a YA reimagining of the myth of Tristan and Isolde from Celtic folklore. I do love a myth retelling, and this one I wasn’t overly familiar with, so it did definitely seem like I was reading an original story. At first, I found the dystopian setting a bit bizarre. […]
📜✒️When We Were Monsters 🖋️📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Show of hands who else had their adolescence hearts broken by Jennifer Niven circa 2015? 🙋♀️ When I saw Jennifer Niven had a new book coming much, I was intrigued. I was even more intrigued when I saw it was a dark academia YA thriller (aka, the best genre […]
📜⚔️ Wild Reverence ⚔️📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Where to begin!!! Rebecca Ross, you did it again. I absolutely adored this story. The prose is so lyrical and melodic, and I fell immediately in love! Matilda is the herald of the gods. She is one of the only goddesses to have the ability to flog between the two […]
🌊🦢 Tenderly, I am Devoured 🦢🌊 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tenderly, I am Devoured follows Lacrimosa Arriscane, who, upon returning from a prestigious boarding school in disgrace, finds her family’s finance in disarray. Willing to do anything to save them, she makes a deal with a chthonic demon. But when the betrothal isn’t anything like she imagined, and […]
📿💋 Terror At The Gates💋📿 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Terror at the Gates is a feminist retelling of Lilith, mother of demons, story within Christian mythology. In traditional lore, Lilith, exiled from the Garden of Eden for disobeying Adam, is depicted as monstrous and seductively wicked, smiting men in a vengeful quest. I absolutely loved the world building […]