Category: Book Reviews

My 2 Cents on After World by Debbie Urbanski

Many thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for providing me with an eARC of After World in exchange for my honest review! What a somber, daunting, bleak, optimistic, and thought-provoking journey this turned out to be. Sometimes, it sinks me into pessimism because of how grimly it depicts humanity's extinction and all the futility it ran … Continue reading My 2 Cents on After World by Debbie Urbanski →

My 2 Cents on Behind the Scenes by Karelia Stetz-Waters

Many thanks to NetGalley and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review! I've had Satisfaction Guaranteed, the 2021 sapphic opposites-attract contemporary romance by Karelia Stetz-Waters, on my TBR pile for a while now. That's why I was eager to get the opportunity to read the ARC … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Behind the Scenes by Karelia Stetz-Waters →

My 2 Cents on Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review! What's new, everyone? In Mistakes Were Made, the 2022 sapphic contemporary romance by Meryl Wilsner (Something to Talk About), 21-year-old Cassie Klein, in a bid to escape her college’s Family Weekend, heads across town to … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner →

My 2 Cents on Bad Girl Reputation by Elle Kennedy

Thank you to NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review! What's new, everyone? Elle Kennedy (Off-Campus, Briar U) has published Bad Girl Reputation, the second standalone entry in the Avalon Bay series. In the eponymous beachside town, Genevieve “Gen” West and Evan Hartley had once … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Bad Girl Reputation by Elle Kennedy →

My 2 Cents on The Only Child by Kayte Nunn

Thank you to NetGalley and Penzler Publishers for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review! What's new, everyone? The Only Child, the just-published mystery novel by Kayte Nunn (The Botanist's Daughter), follows a slow-burn mystery that cuts back and forth between the past and the present. First, there's the year 1949, … Continue reading My 2 Cents on The Only Child by Kayte Nunn →

My 2 Cents on Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt

Thank you to NetGalley and Peachtree Teen for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review! What’s new, everyone? In the queer YA novel Aces Wilds: A Heist by debut author Amanda DeWitt, Arthur Jack Shannon (don't call him Arthur, though) has attended the Elkhollow Preparatory School for three years, and he … Continue reading My 2 Cents on Aces Wild: A Heist by Amanda DeWitt →

My 2 Cents on The Do-Over by Sharon M. Peterson

Thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review! What's new, everyone? In the new contemporary romance (well, it's marketed that way, although I'm classifying it as a "growmance" in which the lead's personal growth is more relevant to the story than the romance itself) The … Continue reading My 2 Cents on The Do-Over by Sharon M. Peterson →

My 2 Cents on The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon

Thank you to NetGalley and Forever (Grand Central Publishing) for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review! What's new, everyone? Farrah Rochon is publishing her latest contemporary romance novel, The Hookup Plan, which is the third standalone entry in her The Boyfriend Project series and comes out tomorrow on August 2nd. … Continue reading My 2 Cents on The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon →