TWELFTH Author: Janet Key Genre: Middle Grade Mystery Historical Pages: 368 Publishing Date: May 17th, 2022 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Better Nate Than Ever meets The Parker Inheritance in this heartwarming mystery about finding your people and accepting others as they are.Twelve-year-old Maren is sure theater camp isn’t for her. Theater camp is for loud, confident, artsy people: people... Continue Reading →
What is Your Personality Type?
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! Well, guess who has 110 drafts but not a single one that's ready to be published? *multiple fingers pointing towards me* Yes, fine, you guessed right, it is me. *sighs ashamedly* Besides it's been a while since I did a non-bookish post, so yeah! So, for... Continue Reading →
Discussion Post | Pros and Cons of Book Tours
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, I've been doing blog tours for a while, and I like to think that I've gotten the hang of them by now. So, I decided to do a post on the pros and cons of blog tours! If you want to learn more about blog... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour | Beauty and the Besharam by Lillie Vale | Review
BEAUTY AND THE BESHARAM Author: Lillie Vale Pages: 400 Publishing Date: 10th May, 2022 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.5 Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old, high-achieving Kavya Joshi has always been told she's a little too ambitious, a little too mouthy, and overall just a little too much. In one word: besharam.So, when her nemesis, Ian Jun, witnesses Kavya’s very public breakup with... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour | Dead End Girls by Wendy Heard | Review
DEAD END GIRLS Author: Wendy Heard Pages: 336 Genre: Young Adult Thriller Publishing Date: May 10th, 2022 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.5 Synopsis: In one week, Maude will be dead. At least, that’s what she wants everyone to think. After years of research, Maude has decided to fake her own death. She’s figured out the how, the when,... Continue Reading →
Book Tag | The Last, Now, Next Book Tag
Hey people! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! It's been a while since I've done a tag, so I thought I'd give this short tag a shot. I have so many pending tags but literally no time to sit down and type out a long post, but this one seems rather short, so I'm... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour | The Knave of Secrets by Alex Livingston | Spotlight
THE KNAVE OF SECRETS Author: Alex Livingston Pages: 400 Genre: Fantasy Publishing Date: June 7th, 2022 Synopsis: A twisty tale of magicians, con artists and card games, where secrets are traded and gambled like coin, for fans of The Lies of Locke Lamora and The Mask of Mirrors.Never stake more than you can afford to... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour | Nate Plus One by Kevin Van Whye | Author Interview
NATE PLUS ONE Author: Kevin Van Whye Pages: 256 Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Publishing Date: May 10, 2022 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis:The gorgeous new feelgood LGBTQ+ romantic comedy from the author of Date Me, Bryson Keller!Two boys. Two bands. Two worlds colliding.Nate Hargraves – stage-shy singer-songwriter – is totally stoked for his cousin’s wedding in South Africa,... Continue Reading →
Pretty Deadly Words #1 | A peek into the writer-me!
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! I finished up my first board exam about 14 hours ago, and I like to think it went nice! And what's the best way to celebrate? Writing a blog post of course (And totally ignoring the fact that I still have two strenuous months ahead of... Continue Reading →
Music Artist Recommendation | DYLAN
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! Artist/Author Recommendation posts will be spotlighting on a favourite author or artist of mine, and I’ll be recommending a few of their songs which you can listen to or a few of their books you can read to try to get into them! For songs I’ll... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour | The Noh Family by Grace K. Shim | Review
THE NOH FAMILY Author: Grace K. Shim Pages: 384 Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Publishing Date: May 3rd, 2022 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: A sparkling K-drama inspired debut teen novel by Grace Shim, THE NOH FAMILY introduces irrepressibly charming teen Chloe Kang, who is reunited with her deceased father’s estranged family via a DNA test, and is... Continue Reading →
5 YA Mystery Novels I am excited to get to! [Once I finish all my exams and ARCs]
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, mystery is probably my favourite genres of all time. On a non-busy day, I love to curl up with a good ol' dark mystery and a cup of cold coffee, and enter the world of thrill. But these days, I'm unable to do that, for... Continue Reading →
Monthly Wrap-Up | April 2022
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! April really, really flew by. I know I say this for practically every month, but I don't know how April flew by so fast. It was just April 1st when I pulled a prank on y'all and boom, here we are on 30th April. Anyway, welcome... Continue Reading →
Discussion Post | Struggles of being an Indian lover of foreign music
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, I've done two posts on Struggles of being an Indian reader (Check them out here and here), and they were very well received, so I decided to pen a post on a similar theme- Struggles of being an Indian lover of foreign music! To be... Continue Reading →
Trying Wordle! (not for the first time, mind you)
Can you tell I am out of content? Well, I actually am not, I am just out of time, and I am looking for short, fun posts to do, ha. Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, I recently lost my Wordle streak of 48 days😭😭 And well, I am on it... Continue Reading →
Discussion Post | Type of Books We’ve all read (From a teen’s POV)
Hello hello everybody! What up????!!!!!!! Let's get this bookish party started, whoop whoop! ..... Uh, I don't know what that was, let me just greet you with my normal greeting! Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! Much better. So, Simran @Far From Perfect and I were discussing our blogs, and she thought... Continue Reading →
Book Genres as School Teachers.
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, I was actually working on another post (which, ironically, hasn't been posted yet, but bonus points to anyone who guesses what the post is), and I came up with this idea! I think it'll be pretty fun to compare book genres to school teachers. This... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour | Grow Up, Tahlia Wilkins! by Karina Evans | Review + Favourite Quotes
GROW UP, TAHLIA WILKINS! Pages: 304 Genre: Middle Grade Contemporary Publishing Date: April 19th, 2022 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 stars Synopsis: Debut author Karina Evans gives modern-day readers their own version of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret with a fun romp about friendship, puberty, and growing up.Twelve-year-old Tahlia Wilkins is ready to kick off the perfect summer... Continue Reading →
The Ultimate YA Contemporary Book Recommendations List | A List of 51 Books!
The number of times people have asked me for a YA cute, fluffy book rec is infinite (not really, but you get my point). And I am tired of typing the same old list over and over and over and over and over again. Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! Today I'll... Continue Reading →
Guess who got overexcited and now has 15 ARCs to finish in the next two months? Me? Oh, no.
Not me disappearing from the blogosphere for 4 days, and then posting two days in a row, for the helluva it. Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, well, as you can see from the title of the post, someone *cough me cough* ended up signing for waaaaay too many blog tours... Continue Reading →
Book Tag | The Best Books of 2021 Book Tag
#TBT2021 Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! Back in January I was tagged to do this tag by Madeline @The Bookish Mutant to do the Best Books of 2021 Book Tag, and since recently I was reminiscing what good of a reading year 2021 was, and how 2022 has been absolutely bad... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour | The Matchbreaker Summer by Annie Rains | Review & Favourite Quotes
THE MATCHBREAKER SUMMER Author: Annie Rains Pages: 304 Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance Publishing Date: April 5th, 2022 Synopsis: ⭐⭐⭐ A pitch-perfect summer camp rom-com about two teens with nothing in common who come together to help break up a romance and unexpectedly start one of their ownSixteen-year-old Paisley Manning has been attending Camp Seabrook... Continue Reading →
Discussion Post | 5 Struggles of Being an Indian Reader- Part II
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! Back in September of 2021, I did a post titled 5 struggles of being an Indian reader, and here I am with part two! Click here to check part one out! Let's get straight into it! ARCs being solely for US/UK citizens:I am a person who... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour | Very Bad People by Kit Frick | Review
VERY BAD PEOPLE Pages: 416 Pages Genre: Young Adult Fiction- Thriller Publishing Date: April 5, 2022 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.5 Synopsis: In this dark academia young adult thriller for fans of The Female of the Species and People Like Us, a teen girl’s search for answers about her mother’s mysterious death leads to a powerful secret society at her new... Continue Reading →
Discussion Posts | Book Tours, What Are They and How to Sign Up For Them?
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, often times a lot of my readers ask me what book/blog tours are, and how do you sign up for them, etc. etc. So, I decided to make a post which can direct my readers on how to sign up for book tours and other... Continue Reading →
Monthly Wrap-Up | March 2022.
March flew by. Like literally, just whoooooooooooooosh. Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! What a month March has been. It's been pretty eventful to say the least. March started off with me being in a surprisingly social mood, which led to me wanting to meet people. I did meet up with a... Continue Reading →
Discussion Post | Movies and TV shows which would make awesome books ft. excerpts from those books (written by me)
Hey Guys! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, all of us talk about movie adaptations of books, there are so many of them! But how many of you've ever wondered what would some movies and TV shows be like, had they been books? Wouldn't that have been amazing? Like reading the multiple POVs,... Continue Reading →
2 Years of Blogging | Celebrating Us! | 5 Things I am thankful for | Announcement time! |
It's been 2 years. Whoa. Hey Guys! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, yes, you guessed it, it's my blogiversary! And what's more, it's my second blogiversary. Never did I ever think I'll blog for two years, I mean honestly, when I started the blog back in March 2020, it was just supposed... Continue Reading →
The Book Blogger Memory Challenge
Hey everybody! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! I have seen this challenge go around the blogosphere and was itching to try it out myself, so I was rather happy when Maria @The Character Study and Naemi @A Book Owl's Corner tagged me for it! Thank you so much for the tag Maria and... Continue Reading →
It’s time for something fun! I need your help! | Rumours about my reading life?
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, about a week ago, Jesse the reader, one of my favourite booktubers, did a video where he reacted to rumours about his reading life, and I found it super fun! He basically asked his followers on Instagram to assume stuff about his reading life, and... Continue Reading →
Thoughts On: Differences between Elder Siblings and Younger Siblings
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, today we have a very interesting topic. Elder siblings and younger siblings. Most Indian kids have at least one sibling- everyone in my friend group does. And I can't help but notice significant things that are common between everyone who's an elder sibling and everyone's... Continue Reading →
Misheard Lyrics! | A post where I totally don’t embarrass myself.
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! I'd been toying around with this idea in my head for a while, and I finally put it to paper screen! Basically I'll be sharing a few lyrics that I misheard, and when I found out the real lyrics, I was like oh, yeah that makes... Continue Reading →
How are you guys doing?
Hey guys! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, you may have noticed that I haven't been replying to comments since the past few days, and I am super sorry about that! I am reading them, but I just don't have the energy to reply to them- it's just been a bad week, that's... Continue Reading →
Book Tag | The Reading Habits Book Tag
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! Today, I'll be doing the Reading Habits Book Tag, and I was tagged to do this by Nehal @Quirky Pages and Harini @Book Spiral! They have amazing blogs, so do go and check them out! I have a bunch of tags that are pending, and I... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour | The Words We Keep by Erin Stewart | Top 5 Reasons to Read The Words We Keep
THE WORDS WE KEEP Pages: 400 Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Publishing Date: 15th March, 2022 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (I'd give more if I could) Synopsis: A beautifully realistic, relatable story about mental health and the healing powers of art–perfect for fans of Girl in Pieces and How it Feels to Float.It’s been three months since The Night on the... Continue Reading →
Judge my Spotify | How Bad is My Streaming Music?
Hey Guys! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, a few weeks ago, a friend shared this website with me, which judges your music taste and tells you how bad it is. It's basically a joke but still really fun to do, and I thought I'd share it with all of you! Let's get... Continue Reading →
The Colours of Life Book Tag [ORIGINAL] | Holi Special |
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! First of all, a very Happy Holi to all of my Indian readers! For those of you who don't know, Holi is a major Indian festival, wherein people celebrate by putting colour on each others faces, arms, legs etc. etc. It's actually pretty fun, and I... Continue Reading →
How good are the books I am reading currently~ They Wish They Were Us, The Cheat Sheet and The Words We Keep
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, I realised that it's been a while since I updated you guys up on what I am reading and stuff, and I figured that this was a good way to do that! But what exactly will I be doing, you may ask? I'll basically be... Continue Reading →
Blog Tour | Anything But Fine by Tobias Madden | Spotlight
ANYTHING BUT FINE Author: Tobias Madden Pages: 368 Genre: Young Adult Contemporary. Publishing Date: 25th January, 2022 Synopsis: All it takes is one missed step for your life to change forever.Luca Mason knows exactly who he is and what he wants: In six months, he’s going to be accepted into the Australian Ballet School, leave... Continue Reading →
Reacting to your thoughts of IRL me! | Part II
Hey everyone! Welcome or welcome back to my blog! So, some time back I asked y'all to send in your thoughts on how I am IRL. In retrospect, I realise how much like assumptions it is, but it's also not like assumptions, so idk. Anyway, let's just get into it! Also, R indicates my thoughts... Continue Reading →