I preordered The Missing Season by Gillian French, one of my favorite YA Mystery/Thriller authors, specifically to read poolside during my vacation. It did not disappoint!
Book Review
Review: Keep This To Yourself
I don’t remember where I heard about Keep This To Yourself, but I put Tom Ryan‘s latest on my TBR a few months back, and was excited to get the notification that it had been released.
Review: Cracked Up to Be
I decided to read Courtney Summers‘s 2008 debut Cracked Up to Be, after reading two of her more recent novels, Sadie, and All the Rage. It’s being reissued in 2020 in paperback.
Review: With the Fire on High
After reading Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X, I was excited to find her newest book With the Fire on High. Unlike The Poet X, which was written in verse, this book is a traditional novel, but retains Acevedo’s incredible ability to create rich characters and environments.
Review: Bad Blood
After watching the HBO miniseries The Inventor, about Elizabeth Holmes and her medical startup Theranos, I wanted to learn more about the scandal, so I picked up Bad Blood. It’s written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter who broke the story on the multi-billion dollar fraud, John Carreyrou.
Review: The Poet X
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo is the third book I’ve read from Jennifer Lynn Barnes’s University of Oklahoma YA syllabus. It’s written in verse by an award-winning slam poet, and definitely not a book I would have picked up on my own.