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PRETTY DEAD QUEENS Author: Alexa Donne Genre: Young Adult Thriller Publishing date: October 4th, 2022 Synopsis: Seaview High’s homecoming queen is dead . . . and she’s not the first. From the critically acclaimed author of The Ivies comes a nonstop thriller about a decades-old mystery, a copycat killing, and the teen who won’t stop until she... Continue Reading →
FLIGHT 171 Author: Amy Christine Parker Genre: Young Adult Horror Publishing date: October 4th, 2022 Pages: Synopsis: Devon Marsh is haunted by secrets. Like the identity of the person who killed her twin sister, Emily, in a hit and run accident last Halloween, which Devon has vowed to uncover. Like the things Devon said to Emily... Continue Reading →
BAD AT LOVE Author: Gabriela Martins Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance Publishing date: August 2nd, 2022 Pages: 240 Rating: Synopsis: Ever since Daniel moved to L.A. from Brazil to join the band Mischief & Mayhem, he’s become the tabloids’ bad boy. Paparazzi follow him and girls swoon over him . . . except for Sasha, who hates... Continue Reading →
THE DECOY GIRLFRIEND Author: Lillie Vale Genre: Adult Romance Publishing date: September 6th, 2022 Number of Pages: 336 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.5 Synopsis: A laugh-out-loud funny and whip-smart romantic comedy from the author of The Shaadi Set-Up, about a young woman who takes the place of her celebrity doppelgänger, and must fake-date the actress’s sexy costar boyfriend.Writer Freya Lal... Continue Reading →
ON THE SUBJECT OF UNMENTIONABLE THINGS Author: Julia Walton Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Publishing Date: August 23rd, 2022 Number of Pages: 320 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 Synopsis: A girl rewrites sex education, one viral post at a time, in this fiercely honest and delightfully awkward novel by the award-winning author of Words on Bathroom Walls. Phoebe Townsend is... Continue Reading →
BUCK UP, BUTTERCUP Author: Anna Alkire Genre: Comedy, Contemporary, New Adult, Romance Publishing Date: June 30th, 2022 Pages: 345 Synopsis: All’s fair in love and war.With Randi and Buck, it’s hard to tell the two apart…An uptight, self-contained college girl, Randi Becker just needed one thing: a room. Somewhere she could study, and keep away from the things... Continue Reading →
BOYS I KNOW Author: Anna Garcia Genre: Young Adult Fiction–Contemporary Romance Publishing Date: July 26th, 2022 Pages: 352 Synopsis: June Chu is the “just good enough” girl. Good enough to line the shelves with a slew of third-place trophies and steal secret kisses from her AP Bio partner, Rhys. But not good enough to meet... Continue Reading →
ZYLA & KAI Author: Kristina Forest Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance Publishing date: June 7th, 2022 Pages: 480 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.5 Synopsis: A fresh new YA romance novel by Kristina Forest, Zyla & Kai is an epic star-crossed love story about first love and not just the will they, won’t they— but why can’t they?While on a school trip to... Continue Reading →
BEFORE TAKEOFF Author: Ali Alsaid Genre: Young Adult Literary Romance Pages: 336 Publishing Date: June 7th, 2022 Synopsis: The Sun Is Also a Star meets Jumanji when two teens meet and fall in love during a layover-gone-wrong at the Atlanta airport in this thrilling new novel from the author of Let's Get Lost!James and Michelle find themselves in the... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
UNDERCOVER PRINCESS Author: Connie Glynn Pages: 441 Genre: YA Fantasy Publishing Date: 2 November, 2017 Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.5 Synopsis: When fairy tale obsessed Lottie Pumpkin starts at the infamous Rosewood Hall, she is not expecting to share a room with the Crown Princess of Maradova, Ellie Wolf. Due to a series of lies and coincidences, 14-year-old... Continue Reading →
HONEST JUNE Author: Tina Wells Pages: 240 Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Publishing Date: 28th December 2021 by Random House Books Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.5 Synopsis: For June Jackson, middle school is hard enough–but it’s even harder when a fairy godmother grants her the ability to only tell the truth ALL THE TIME! Is it a blessing… or a major curse? June’s... Continue Reading →
THE WINNING INGREDIENT Author: Kelly Swan Pages: 262 Genre: YA Contemporary Published: 22nd September 2021, by Link Press Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: As the past and the present collide, one baker and one quarterback team up.The two might be the winning ingredient in a timeless recipe.”Mia DeSalvo is one tough cookie, who can throw a perfect... Continue Reading →
THE ART OF RUNNING AWAY Author: Sabrina Kleckner Pages: 256 Genre: Middle Grade Contemporary Publishing Date: 16th November 2021 by Jolly Fish Press Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 Synopsis: Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. When she’s in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna’s Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense. She... Continue Reading →
THE YEAR I STOPPED TRYING Author: Katie Heaney Pages: 256 pages Genre: YA Contemporary Publishing Date: 16th November 2021 by Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers Rating: ⭐⭐⭐.5 Synopsis: Booksmart meets The Perks of Being a Wallflower in this novel of overachieving, existential crises, growing up, and coming out, from the author of Girl Crushed and Never Have I Ever.Mary... Continue Reading →
Sway With Me Author: Syed M. Masood Pages: 320 Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Romance Publishing date: November 2nd, 2021 by Little, Brown Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Synopsis: Arsalan has learned everything he knows from Nana, his 100-year-old great-grandfather. This includes the fact that when Nana dies, Arsalan will be completely alone in the world, except for his estranged... Continue Reading →
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