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The Atrocities – Jeremy C. Shipp (ARC Review)

TITLE: The Atrocities AUTHOR: Jeremy C. Shipp RELEASES: April 17, 2018; Tor.com Publishing GENRE: Horror AGE RANGE: Adult SYNOPSIS: When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ensure her education wouldn’t suffer. But Isabella’s parents had not informed her new governess of Isabella’s… condition, and when Ms Valdez arrives at the estate, having forced herself through a surreal nightmare maze of twisted human-like statues, she discovers that there is no girl to tutor. Or is there…? {GOODREADS . AMAZON . BOOKDEPOSITORY} Turn left at the screaming woman with...

The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas

TITLE: The Hate U Give AUTHOR: Angie Thomas PUBLISHED: Feb 28 2017; Balzer + Bray GENRE: Contemporary AGE RANGE: YA SYNOPSIS: Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug,...

Blue Lily, Lily Blue – Maggie Stiefvater

book 1 | book 2 Blue was perfectly aware that it was possible to have a friendship that wasn’t all-encompassing, that wasn’t blinding, deafening, maddening, quickening. It was just that now that she’d had this kind, she didn’t want the other. Where do I even begin? This review took me six weeks to write, and it’s literally only because I loved it so much that I don’t know how to describe it. I went through three sleeves of page tabs on this book,...

The Hearts We Sold – Emily Lloyd-Jones

“Nothing comes for free. We just don’t know what it’ll cost.” I can’t believe it’s taken me three months to write this review, but every time I sat down to attempt it, I just couldn’t get the right words on paper. This book meant so much to me. I honestly went into it not expecting very much, but something about it just resonated so strongly with me that, even now, months later, I read the quotes I highlighted and I...

DISCUSSION: TBR Zeroing?

Because I’m behind on a million reviews and don’t have any saved tags that I felt like doing, I thought I would do a discussion post for you guys about something that I’ve been seeing a lot of chatter surrounding: TBR “Zeroing”! (as you can tell, I prefer TBR “doubling” and “tripling”…) If you’re unfamiliar with this term, it’s exactly what it sounds like: getting your TBR to “0”, or as close to it as possible. While some people intend...

2017 Wrap-Up & Statistics

This is a little later than I intended for it to be, but here’s my final 2017 wrap-up! In previous years, I never thought I could’ve passed 50k pages read in a year. As a teen, I read a lot, but “a lot” back then was probably 40 books a year. In my early twenties, “a lot” was 2 books a month. To finish 208 books in one year, though? I am unspeakably proud of myself, and a little bit...

DISCUSSION: My Top Reads of 2017

It’s finally time… I wanted to wait until 2017 ended just to make sure nothing snuck up and took me by surprise, but now that the year is over, I can finally tell you guys my complete list of my top reads of 2017! These are not all 2017 releases – some are older, and some are actually from 2018! – but they are all books that I loved with my whole heart and hope you do, too....