Curious Words

Happily
The first book I read by F. T. Lukens was In Deeper Waters and I absolutely loved it. I prefer standalones or duologies best so this was...

Heartstopper, Heartbreaker, Heart Beating On
The Ballad of Never After continues Evangeline Fox's tale through the Magnificent North as the second book in the Once Upon a Broken...

Where Summers Meet
There are always more stories Lexi doesn't know much about her late mother. When her grandmother also passes, and Lexi is sent a mosaic...

Curious Hearts
But you have to have a working heart for it to break It was hard not to judge this book by its cover when the cover looks like this one...

What If That's All That We Need it to Be
I believe in love at first sight. Fate, the universe, all of it. But not how you’re thinking. I don’t mean it in the...

Story of Stitches
Tell me... for a girl with so much imagination, why are you so skeptical of magic? In this Mulan-inspired story, Maia Tamarin grows up a...

Games, Gangs, and Grand Stories
In the diverse and inventive realm of young adult fantasy novels, it can be difficult to find ways to stand out. Despite that, in between...

Under the Shell
A popular childhood pet, the hermit crab holds its distinction by finding new home shells as it grows. It was this unique creature that...

The Long Road
I had a theory... that love was about paying attention Due to a series of unforeseen and serendipitous events, high school seniors Kat...

Extra Credit
Everyone at some point is afraid of making the wrong choice -- Years ago I read The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau through the Kindle app....

Riddles Upon Riddles
With different circumstances, any of us could have ended up in anyone else's position... A mysterious will and a house full of puzzles......

Snowy Starry Nights
Finishing A Court of Wings and Ruin in early December, I inadvertently set myself up with perfect timing to read A Court of Frost and...

A Turn of Words
One of my favorite things about fantasy books is learning about different magic systems. I love how magic is something so widespread that...

Dark Sky and Stars
There is a darkness that frightens, the darkness that soothes, the darkness that is restful. There is the darkness of lovers and the...

And Then There Were Three
'Beautiful' is too gentle a word for what she is. I decided to make a combination review for the first two books in the Three Dark Crowns...

A Powerful Call
Five years ago I received the book The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss for my birthday. I tried starting it but it was a bit dense...

Lost and Found
Never really haven taken one myself, I have always been drawn to books about road trips. The Geography of Lost Things by Jessica Brody...

Thorns and All
You aren't what I expected - for a human. In an attempt to be well-read in popular YA fiction of the time, I got around to reading A...

Mechanics and Magic
There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it. My first impression of Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare was...



















