Month: May 2017

Book List 2017 · Reviews

Review: Leo Loves Aries

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Title: Leo Loves Aries

Author: Anyta Sunday

Genre: LGBT Contemporary Romance

Warnings: None that I can think of

Silver linings of warnings: N/A

Overall Rating: 

A new person will enter your life in the early year, Leo. Look past any moments of frustration they might bring and laugh—this could be the start of a thriving friendship.

Theo Wallace usually laughs at the horoscopes his mom sends. Still hung up on his ex-girlfriend and practically friendless, this one begs him to reconsider. Because a friendship that stuck, that thrived…

Well, that would be a reason to leave past pains behind and look to the Bright Future.

When his sister Leone challenges him to find her the perfect date for a spring wedding, Theo uses it as a chance to make new friends. Theo’s ex economics tutor and newest roommate Mr Jamie Cooper seems to be a possible and convenient match. Real convenient. Like written in the stars, convenient.

All he has to do is make sure this Jamie is good enough. Could really be the one for her, and the friend for him.

But watch out, Leo, the stars have a surprise in store…

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Review: Paradise Girl by Phill Featherstone

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Title: Paradise Girl

Author: Phill Featherstone

Genre: YA Dystopian

Warnings: Lots of death, attempted assault

Silver linings of warnings: Some of the best written suspenseful scenes I’ve read in a long while.

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A highly infectious and incurable virus spreads worldwide. Seventeen-year-old Kerryl Shaw and her family live on a remote farm and think they will be safe, but the plague advances. Despite deaths around them, the Shaws survive. However, this changes when a stranger arrives, and it soon becomes apparent he has brought the infection to their door. One by one the family succumbs, leaving Kerryl alone.

Kerryl is sure it’s only a matter of time before she, too, dies. She decides to record what she thinks will be her final days in a diary. She realises that it will never be read, so she imagines a reader and calls him Adam. As loneliness and isolation affect the balance of her mind, Adam ceases to be an imaginary character and becomes real to her…

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Review: Same Love by Tony Correia

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Same Love

Title: Same Love

Author:  Tony Correia

Genre: YA LGBTQIA+

Warnings: Hate speech involving LGBTQIA+, Native Americans, Asians, women and other minority groups.

Silver Lining to Warnings: There are people, just like in the real world who do not stand for that bullshit.

Overall Rating: 

At seventeen, Adam has suspected for a while that he might be gay. His sketchbook has become full of images of good-looking men, and he isn’t attracted to any of the girls he knows. When he reveals his feelings to his devout parents, they send him to a Christian camp, warning him that there will be no room in their lives for a gay son. The last thing Adam expects is to meet someone he is deeply attracted to; unfortunately, Paul is more committed to his Christian faith than Adam is.

Adam tries to bury his attraction to Paul by concentrating on his art and his new friends Rhonda and Martin. When it becomes clear how unhappy Rhonda and Martin are at Camp Revelation, Adam and Paul are both forced to question what the church tells them about love. But with a whole camp full of people trying to get Adam to change who he is, what kind of chance do Adam and Paul have to find love and a life with each other?

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Bookish Things

What is reading all about?

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What is reading all about? What motivates me to do it? What motivates YOU to do it? What do we get from it?

For me reading has been many things. It has been a struggle, as I took forever to learn and resented the fact.

It has been a solace, when I realized a written word could comfort me in a way that those around me couldn’t do.

It has been my way of traveling when I’ve been sick, and recently my way of making friend when I’ve been traveling.

This blog was meant to be dedicated to my love of reading and somewhere along the line I got mixed up and confused, obsessed with who was reading this, who was listening.

Forgetting that this blog is just meant to be a tribute to the books I love, and even those I don’t. My little corner of the web where I can talk to whoever is willing to listen.

And maybe I’ll pick up a few new friends along the way.

Reading Challenges

Beat the Backlist Challenge

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My goal: Read 30 books from my TBR pile that have been sitting on my shelf for awhile. I’ve listed the first fifteen I plan on reading first. Once one book is finished I will add another on the end as I have literally hundreds of TBRs.

The books are as follows:

  1. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
  2. Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin
  3. A Sense of the Infinite by Hillary T Smith\
  4. The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
  5. We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
  6. Daughters Unto Devils by Aamy Lukavics
  7. The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna
  8. Girl Defective by Simmone Howell
  9. Midnight Riot by Ben Aaronovitch
  10. Afterworlds by Scott Westerfield
  11. Say What You Will by Camme McGovern
  12. Red Joan by Jennie Rooney
  13. Ask the Passengers by A.S King
  14. Queen of Babble by Meg Cabot
  15. The Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan