I will be using this review for the “The Book Was Better?” square in CBR10 Book Bingo. “Love is scary: it changes; it can go away. That’s the part of the risk. I don’t want to be scared anymore…” I admit it: I watched the Netflix movie before I read the book. I have a weakness for teen rom-com cheesy goodness, the waiting lists at the library were massive, and I really wanted to know what all the Buzzfeed stories were about. Of course, I […]
“I’m basically your resident fat Slytherin Rory Gilmore.”
I’m using this review to fill my Birthday! square, as Becky Albertalli’s birthday is November 17th. “Imagine going about your day knowing someone’s carrying you in their mind. That has to be the best part of being in love- the feeling of having a home in some else’s brain…” I loved Simon Vs. the Homosapien Agenda and The Upside of Unrequited, so of course I wanted to read Albertalli’s newest book. Leah on the Offbeat is more of a direct sequel to Simon, as Upside […]
The Kiss Quotient
This review will fill the “Not in My Wheelhouse” square. I believe I have stated this before on here, but I’m not much of a Romance girl. There seems to be a stereotype of women loving their little mass market paperbacks of billionaires seducing young ingenues or Fabio with an open shirt kissing a woman with a heaving bosom. Of course, not all women are into these things, and if they are, that’s their business and they aren’t hurting anyone, so who cares? But I […]
“There’s nothing like a few severed heads to take your mind off politics…”
“It’s a cruel, cruel world. And the people are the worst part…” Dread Nation invites its readers to imagine an alternate history of the United States. During the terrible years of the Civil War the dead began to rise. They feasted upon the living changing them into zombies, or shamblers, as they prefer here. The war was set aside to focus on the more pressing threat. The slaves were set free, but still weren’t given much freedom. Young black men and women were sent to […]