i’m super late again but i fianlly managed to make it despite finals week haha! here is my monthly wrap-up for november: did you read any of these books? link to your monthly wrap-up today so i can check out your reads!
the plot builds up very slowly being set up early on as a revenge story. the book alternates between three main POVs and switches between the past and the present. it involves a past set in a summer camp in the woods where artists serve as instructors to students teaching various forms of art. the … More mini-reviews: dark things i adore // the corpse flower // brightest star in paris
Hello everyone! Hope you are having a good week so far! Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends … More Top Ten Tuesday: Books Guaranteed to Put a Smile On Your Face | September 7th
It’s 200 years after Cinderella found her prince, but the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl’s display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from … More Review: Cinderella is Dead by Kaylnn Bayron
Two sisters. One secret… A lie that could destroy them both. When her father dies, Josie is devastated to uncover he led a secret life: another house, another family and a half-sister called Valentina. Both with red hair and icy blue eyes, Josie and Valentina could be mistaken for twins. But the similarities end there… … More Review: The Good Sister by Jess Ryder
A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through … More Review: Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward
Hello there! I saw this tag on Paws and Paperbacks and it looked really interesting. Since it was open for everyone, I decided to tag myself to do it. S – Sleep No More by Aprilynne Pike … More My Life In Books Tag
Mysterious doors with lizard-head knobs. Talking stone statues. A crazy girl with a hatchet. Yes, Liv’s dreams have been pretty weird lately. Especially the one where she’s in a graveyard at night, watching four boys conduct dark magic rituals. The strangest part is that Liv recognizes the boys in her dream. They’re classmates from her … More Review: The Silver Trilogy by Kerstin Gier
A British girl uncovers the mystery of her mother’s death — and discovers powers she never knew she possessed — in this engrossing, imaginative Victorian-era novel by Libba Bray. Two months after her mother’s sudden and puzzling suicide, Gemma Doyle travels from India, where she was raised, to England for her new life at an … More Review: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
The blockbuster film Inception meets Lisa McMann’s Wake trilogy in this dark paranormal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Aprilynne Pike. This supernatural young adult novel is perfect for fans of Kelley Armstrong, Alyson Noël, Richelle Mead, and Kimberly Derting. Charlotte Westing has a gift. She is an Oracle and has the ability to tell the future. … More Review: Sleep No More by Aprilynne Pike
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