The Circle Never Breaks: On Mister Magic, Childhood Horror, and the Stories That Know Us Before We Know Ourselves There is a moment in Kiersten White’s Mister Magic that I have not been able to stop thinking about since I read it: A slow understanding of why five people, thirty […]
Audiobook Review: Such a Lucky Girl by Wendy Heard Two former best friends, one who built her whole life on being Such a Lucky Girl to three million Instagram followers, one who got left behind and found a book from the 1960s connected to a cult that did not end […]
ARC Review: You’re No Better by Andrew Joseph White Andrew Joseph White has built a reputation for writing the kind of YA that does not look away, books about trans and neurodivergent teens navigating worlds that were not built for them, wrapped in horror and thriller elements that hit harder […]
Feature: Tradwife by Michelle Brandon & The Fantasy That was Never for Us Welcome to October, y’all. What better way to kick off spooky szn than with the real horrors we live with! But for real, in just a few days, it will be Banned Books Week and we are […]
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 […]
Review: Lost in Yellowstone by Nicole Maggi If you have been following along here, you know we are big fans of Nicole Maggi’s National Park Mystery series. Lost in Yellowstone is the second book, following Special Agent Emmeline Helliwell as she investigates a murder in one of the most iconic […]
Review: The Photonic Effect by Mike Chen I have been a Mike Chen fan since his debut and have read everything he has put out since. So when I tell you it genuinely surprised me to realize that The Photonic Effect is his first space opera, I mean that. Everything […]
Audiobook Review: How Solo: A Star Wars Story Novelization Made Me Love Solo: A Star Wars Story the Movie The Force is strong with this adaptation…and so is the hair care routine. Most Star Wars fans have their favorite movie, and probably a well-debated order in which they rank them. […]
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 […]
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 […]