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Title: The Ruins in Which We BleedAuthor: Steve N. LeeGenre: Historical Fiction, Young AdultBook Length: NovelFormat Read: ePubYear Published: June 12, 2025 Date Started: May 31, 2025Date finished: June 5, 2025 This story follows a sixteen-year-old girl named Helena as she and her family fight to survive in war-torn Poland. Helena is an intelligent and... Continue Reading →
Title: A Madness Unmade (The Deathly Inheritance Duology Book 1)Author: E.K. Larsen-BurnettGenre: Fantasy, Young AdultBook Length: 271 PagesFormat Read: ePubYear Published: March 3, 2025 Date Started: January 22, 2025Date finished: January 29, 2025 This story is about Laurel Persephone Rumbroom, an 18-year-old who suddenly becomes orphaned when her father mysteriously dies. She grew up in... Continue Reading →
Title: Colossus Rising (Torth Book 2)Author: Abby GoldsmithGenre: Young Adult; Fantasy; Sci-fiBook Length: 381 pages; NovelFormat Read: PaperbackYear Published: January 2, 2024 Date Started: September 20, 2024Date finished: October 20, 2024 This is book two of the Torth Series. The story continues with Thomas and friends’ escape from the Torth aliens. Thomas ends up locked... Continue Reading →
Title: MajorityAuthor: Abby GoldsmithGenre: Young Adult; Fantasy; Sci-fiBook Length: 595 pages (print)Format Read: PaperbackYear Published: September 5, 2023 Date Started: July 6, 2024Date finished: August 28, 2024 This story primarily follows a boy named Thomas Hill. He and a few of his friends are taken to an alien planet, where he discovers that he’s only... Continue Reading →
Title: GallantAuthor: V.E. SchwabGenre: Fantasy; YAYear Published: March 1, 2022 Date Started: December 23, 2022Date finished: December 24, 2022 This is a young adult story about a girl named Olivia Prior who grew up in an orphanage. One day she learns she has a relative and was asked to return home. When she goes to... Continue Reading →
Title: Heir of RaAuthor: M. SasinowskiGenre: YA FantasyYear Published: August 12, 2018 Date Started: February 7, 2023Date finished: February 14, 2023 This is a story about a girl named Alyssa Morgan. Her father, Kade, becomes ill and she wants to find a cure for him. In doing so she meets up with some of her... Continue Reading →
Title: Kingdom of the WickedAuthor: Kerri ManiscalcoGenre: YA, FantasyYear Published: September 7, 2021 Date finished: July 6, 2022 This book was recommended to me by my daughter. She loved it and thought I should read it because it’s fantasy and there’s romance. The cover was very pretty too. The story is about a girl named... Continue Reading →
Title: Gold SpunAuthor: Brandie JuneGenre: Fantasy, Young AdultPublished: June 8th, 2021 Date finished: September 17, 2021 Gold Spun by Brandie June is a Rumpelstiltskin retell about a 17-year-old girl named Nora who finds herself in a mess after rescuing a fae. The fae gifts her with a golden thread and promises to return to her... Continue Reading →
I finished reading Gold Spun by Brandie June and am getting ready to post the review. In the meantime, I decided to do an unboxing of the book and created a new YouTube channel to share my book unboxing. I don't get a lot of physical books to review so I'll probably add reviews (?)... Continue Reading →
Title: ScytheAuthor: Neal ShustermanGenre: YA, dystopianYear Published: 2017 Date finished: August 10, 2021 Scythe by Neal Shusterman is a young adult dystopian novel about two teenagers who were chosen to become scythes. The setting is far future in a world of chaos where rules were put in to control the people. One of the rules... Continue Reading →
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