Author Interview: Someday Perfect by Kat Schneider There is something quietly devastating about growing up inside a world that has already decided who you are supposed to be. Someday Perfect by Kat Schneider follows Meg, a pastor’s kid navigating two weeks at a strict Christian sleepaway camp where first love […]
Review: A Murder in Zion by Nicole Maggi Nicole Maggi’s A Murder in Zion is the first book in her National Park Mystery series, following Special Agent Emmeline Helliwell of the National Park Service’s Investigative Services Branch as she investigates the murder of a childhood friend in the Narrows of […]
Cover Crush: Fatally Yours by Jessica Lacy Fatally Yours by Jessica Lacy follows Katie Rose Waters, a rich Texas girl who can literally get away with murder, until her estranged sister comes home with a fiancé and steals all of Mother Dear’s attention, at which point things get genuinely unhinged. […]
Author Interview: The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America by David Levithan and Gabriel Duckels Being xennial/elder millennial queers, we grew up on the edges of the AIDS crisis, old enough to feel its shadow but young enough that much of what happened was filtered through adult commentary, news […]
Book Recommendations: Girls Who Don’t Stay Put You know how we all have a type? Well, I have many types but one of mine happens to be women in (historic-ish) academic settings and murder. It is not really about murder, though all three of these books have murder in them. […]
TV Thoughts: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood The Testaments premiered on Hulu this month and I have been sitting with it since it dropped. I read the book the week before and what drew me in was the thing Margaret Atwood does that the original Handmaid’s Tale does not quite […]
Feature: We Were Warned: YA Dystopian Fiction and the World We are Living in Now There is a genre of book that an entire generation devoured in their yound adult years, stayed up too late finishing, and then set aside when they got older because the moment passed and so […]
Review & Blog Tour: Forgive Me Not by Mari Costa We are thrilled to be part of the blog tour for Forgive-Me-Not by Mari Costa, a graphic novel out April 14th from First Second Books. If you have been following BookCrushin for any length of time you know we love a […]
Cover Crush: Clara & the Devil, Volume 1 by Olivie Blake with art by Little Chmura In Clara & the Devil, Vol. 1, Olivie Blake and artist Little Chmura put together this moody, obsessive graphic novel about what happens when your whole life gets flipped upside down. Clara has a […]
Review: Star Wars Outlaws: Low Red Moon by Mike Chen Mike Chen has this talent for making massive sci-fi concepts feel almost unfairly intimate. He can take a universe filled with war droids and crime syndicates and make the whole thing feel painfully human. With Star Wars Outlaws: Low Red […]