Book Review: Wicked Fox

“…But I’ve never heard of a person’s soul falling out.” Quick Review: friends to lovers, #ownvoices, Korean urban fantasy, novelized manga Wicked Fox Kat Cho Do you like slice of life, romance manga, but wish for something a little meatier? Do you like non-eurocentric mythos and #ownvoices works of supernatural YA fiction? Are you a…

Book Review: The Screaming Staircase

Lockwood & Co. #1: The Screaming Staircase Jonathan Stroud No one knows how The Problem began. Sure, ghosts and specters always seemed to exist on the periphery of society, but that all changed fifty years ago when a massive surge of ghosts began causing real trouble for the living. Children and teens gifted with psychic…

Book Review: The Graveyard Book

The Graveyard Book Neil Gaiman Nobody “Bod” Owens has had an unconventional childhood, to say the least. The lone survivor of his entire family’s mass murder, he is taken in by the community’s host of ghosts as a baby. Given the Gift of the Graveyard, Bod is raised by the two married Owens ghosts, and…

Review: Renegades [spoiler free]

Renegades Marissa Meyer Maybe it’s the fact that I’ve been binge watching My Hero Academia, but my initial impression of Marissa Meyer’s Renegades was that it was going to be the book version of what I already loved, and that gave me pause. Would it be original enough? Would I want to do the harder work of…

Book Review: The Hate U Give

The Hate U Give Angie Thomas Starr Carter lives a double life it seems. Born and raised in the predominantly black and poor community Garden Heights, but sent to Williamson, a private prep school where she’s one of the only black girls, she switches between the two almost effortlessly. But one night after a party,…