Author Interview: Legally Yours, Violet Lopez by Elba Luz Legally Yours, Violet Lopez follows a high-achieving Latina student with a near-perfect record defending her peers against the disciplinary board who gets blackmailed into taking the one case she specifically refused. Enemies to lovers, class tension, and a protagonist who will […]
Audiobook Review: Meet Me in the Garden by Nina LaCour A Book of the Month Club pick, featured on NPR’s All Things Considered, and earning starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly, Meet Me in the Garden is the book that Nina LaCour’s readers have been waiting for since she […]
Blog Tour & Feature: Demonology for Overachievers by Lily Anderson I started following Lily Anderson back when we were both in the Bay Area. My book club at the time went to one of her launch events, which was also close to the beginning of my own blogging journey. She was […]
Author Interview: Night of Madness by Ryan Douglass Mara is a horror fan whose only fond memories of her dad involve his favorite filmmaker, Jack Stanley, and when Stanley announces a contest sending five teen influencers to spend the night on the set of his most terrifying film, Mara engineers her way […]
Book Recommendations: Her Name in the Sky & This Must Be the Place by Kelly Quindlen As many readers probably know, it is #SapphicSeptember, and we read Queer All Year, but we can do some special shoutout recommendations. Having been fans of Kelly Quindlen since She Drives Me Crazy landed […]
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, […]
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 […]