Book Review: Home Girl by Alex Wheatle

In his latest novel, Alex Wheatle tackles the tragic realities and faults of the foster care system, highlighting the horrors and hardships many children endure. Juggled from foster home to foster home, 14-year-old Naomi has come to think of them…

Book Review: The Beckoning Shadow by Katharyn Blair

True to its nature of magical cage fights, Katharyn Blair’s The Beckoning Shadow doesn’t pull any punches, delivering a breathtakingly wild and tempestuous debut. In a society of Oddities and Baselines— those magically endowed and those magically devoid—Vesper Montgomery cages…

Book Review: Losing Brave by Bailee Madison & Stefne Miller

Bailee Madison and Stefne Miller’s newest novel follows the successful, popular high school star Payton Brave. Payton has it all, but she’s haunted by her twin sister’s disappearance and her inability to remember what happened. She tries to live a…

Book Review: Truly Devious

Maureen Johnson’s latest novel follows budding detective Stevie Bell. Stevie wants nothing more than to have a career solving cases for the FBI, and her acceptance into the prestigious Ellingham Academy for her last two years of high school just…

Book Review: THE CRUEL PRINCE by Holly Black

Black’s latest novel follows a mortal raised in the land of immortal magic. As a human kidnapped to live in the world of Faerie, Jude feels powerless. Between her mortality and lack of magical ability, she faces a grave disadvantage…

Book Review: Renegades by Marissa Meyer

Although I would like nothing better than to spend my entire day reading, very rarely do I come across a book that has enough momentum to keep me enthralled for hours straight. In Renegades, Meyer delivers the characters and plot…

4 Elements in the Best Book Covers

Picture this with me: You walk through the doors of your local bookstore and are greeted by hundreds, if not thousands, of bright, beautiful, still-have-that-new-book-smell books. You browse through the bestseller tables and your favorite sections, hunting for that next…