Cover Crush: Foreigners by E.L. Shen The cover of Foreigners by E.L. Shen is striking from across a room, and definitely caught my eye when I pulled it out of the package it came in. Bold red background, yellow outlined title running vertically down the right side, and two characters […]
Feature: Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez came out in 2001, which means it arrived at a moment when queer YA was not a genre so much as a handful of books that had to fight to exist. Three high school seniors, three different relationships to […]
Feature: Of Sorcery and Science by Mike Chen One thing we love learning about is how authors come to write in the genre(s) they land in. Mike Chen’s niche, which he found after two rejected novels and fifteen years of balancing tech writing with a dream of being a novelist, […]
Young Adult New Releases September 8th 2026 We have a nice varied YA release day today! Check out some amazing seasoned authors and some debuts! Something for everyone today! If anything has caught your eye, and a purchase was needed we work with independent affiliates to bring you anti-billionaire corporate […]
Blog Tour & Feature: Espiritu by Aiden Thomas When Cemetery Boys came out in September 2020, Kelly bought eight copies. Two still live in her library. The other six she pressed into people’s hands because that is what you do with a book that has your whole heart. She called […]
Comic Crush Saturday: One Accidental Assassin, Three Truant Boys, and an X-Men Girlie Coping Welcome to Comic Crush Saturday, our feature focused on the graphic elements of the book world. Comics became a huge part of my life a few years ago when I started reviewing them (and comic related […]
Author Interview: The Secret to Belonging by Megan E. Freeman Written entirely in second person, set partly in 1980s California and partly in northern Norway, The Secret to Belonging follows a narrator with no name through a family shaped by her brother’s addiction and a year abroad that changes everything. The Secret […]
Audiobook Review: Where You’ll Find Us by Jude St. Jude I listened to Where You’ll Find Us by Jude St. Jude on audio and I was sobbing on the way to work. Full on, ugly crying, probably concerning the people in the cars next to me. This story is so […]
Young Adult New Releases September 1st 2026 Welcome to September and welcome a whole bunch of YA new releases today! We are sharing most of them below! If any catch your interest and you plan to own one of these absolutely stunning books we would love if you ordered from […]
Cover Crush: A Dangerous Bargain by Erin Cotter The cover of A Dangerous Bargain by Erin Cotter looks like a Renaissance portrait pulled straight out of a gilded frame. A young man in a ruffled collar and dark velvet doublet stares directly at us as the viewer, holding a quill, […]