Book Review Archive

Welcome to the archive!

Here you'll find all my reviews- sorted by month- newest first!

May 2020

The Last Smile in Sunder City (Luke Arnold)

Aurora Burning (Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff)

Beyond the Break (Heather Buchta)

A Song Below Water (Bethany C. Morrow)

As Fast As I Can (Penny Tangey)

Snow (Gina Inverarity)

You Are Not Alone (Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen)

Reincarnate (Mckay Mertz)

The Year the Maps Changed (Danielle Binks)

April 2020

Deep Water (Sarah Epstein)

Dead Popular (Sue Wallman)

The Good Turn (Dervla McTiernan)

Please See Us (Caitlin Mullen)

House of Earth and Blood (Sarah J Maas)

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (Laila Lalami)

Saint X (Alexis Schaitkin)

March 2020

Infinity Son (Adam Silvera)

The Vanishing Deep (Astrid Scholte)

Anomaly (K. A. Emmons)

Euphoria Kids (Alison Evans)

The Gravity of Us (Phil Stamper)

This Vicious Cure (Emily Suvada)

Sparrow (Mary Cecilia Jackson)

February 2020

Break the Fall (Jennifer Iacopelli)

The Vinyl Underground (Rob Rufus)

The Sisters Grimm (Menna van Praag)

Only Most Devastated (Sophie Gonzales)

Odriel's Heirs (Hayley Reese Chow)

January 2020

A Heart So Fierce and Broken (Brigid Kemmerer)

Yes No Maybe So (Becky Albertalli & Aisha Saeed)

A People's History of Heaven (Mathangi Subramanian)

Tweet Cute (Emma Lord)

How to Build a Heart (Maria Padlan)

Saving Missy (Beth Morrey)

December 2019

Ninth House (Leigh Bardugo)

The Guinevere Deception (Kiersten White)

Call it What You Want (Brigid Kemmerer)

Reverie (Ryan la Sala)

Arctic Zoo (Robert Muchamore)

Girl Who Chose (Violet Grace)

November 2019

Darkdawn (Jay Kristoff)

All That's Bright and Gone (Eliza Nellums)

The Astrid Notes (Taryn Bashford)

Hadamar - House of Shudders (Jason K. Foster)

Unleashed (Amy McCulloch)

Impostors (Scott Westerfeld)

Aim (P. R. Castle)

Secret Science of Magic (Melissa Keil)

Underdog (Edited by Tobias Madden)

Chasing the Shadows (Maria V. Snyder)

I Hold Your Heart (Karen Gregory)

October 2019

The Rosie Result (Graeme Simision)

Prodigy (Marie Lu)

You Don't Know Me (Sara Foster)

Killer Domes and the Chosen One (Gibbo Gibbs)

Frankly in Love (David Yoon)

North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)

September 2019

The Rosie Effect (Graeme Simsion)

Flawed (Becky Bird)

Red, White & Royal Blue (Casey McQuiston)

Scars Like Wings (Erin Stewart)

The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion)

Right After the Weather (Carol Anshaw)

Unearthed (Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner)

The Grey Sisters (Jo Treggiari)

Lifel1k3 (Jay Kristoff)

Cold Storage (David Koepp)

These Broken Stars (Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner)

The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling (Wai Chim)

Wilder Girls (Rory Power)

The Stone Rainbow (Liane Shaw)

August 2019

It Sounded Better in My Head (Nina Kenwood)

Monuments (Will Kostakis)

Godsgrave (Jay Kristoff)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

Nevernight (Jay Kristoff)


To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

Crown of Coral and Pearl (Mara Rutherford)

White Night (Ellie Marney)


July 2019

Begin End Begin: A #LoveOZYA Anthology (Edited by Danielle Binks)

Moxyland (Lauren Beukes)

The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)

Everywhere Everything Everyon (Katy Warner)


Slumber (Becky Bird)

Wicked Fox (Kat Cho)

We Come Apart (Sarah Crossan and Brian Conaghan)

Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)

The Hive (Barry Lyga and Morgan Baden)

The Book Ninja (Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus)

Beau and Bett (Kathryn Berla)

Toffee (Sarah Crossan)

The Quiet at the End of the World (Lauren James)

Four Dead Queens (Astrid Scholte)

Navigating the Stars (Maria V. Snyder)

Lily's Just Fine (Gill Stewart)

June 2019

This Cruel Design (Emily Suvada)

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Süskind)

Mindcull (K H Canobi)

While You Were Reading (Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus)

Shadow of the Fox (Julie Kagawa)

Legend (Marie Lu)

The Paper & Hearts Society (Lucy Powrie)

Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories (Michael Earp, editor)

Storyland (Catherine McKinnon)

The Guilty Friend (Joanne Sefton)

Toxic (Lydia Kang)

Land of Fences (Mark Smith)

Aurora Rising (Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff)

Disappearing Earth (Julia Phillips)

May 2019

If it Makes You Happy (Claire Kann)

When the Ground is Hard (Malla Nunn)

The Eyes of Tamburah (Maria V. Snyder)

April 2019

Ascension (Victor Dixen)

Travelling Cat Chronicles (Hiro Arikawa)

What if it's Us? (Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera)

Illuminae (Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff)

March 2019

Medea/Hecabe/Electra/Heracles (Euripides)

Etiquette and Espionage (Gail Carriger)

Higher Institute of Villainous Education (Mark Walden)

Not if I Save You First (Ally Carter)

February 2019

The Periodic Table (Primo Levi)

Code Name Verity (Elizabeth Wein)

Snapshot (Brandon Sanderson)

King Lear (William Shakespeare)

The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan)

Warcross (Marie Lu)

Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine (Gail Honeyman)

Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)

January 2019

The Girl Who Fell (Violet Grace)

The Upside of Unrequited (Becky Albertalli)

The Veiled Woman (Anaïs Nin)

Circe (Madeline Miller)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)

Shakespeare's Sonnets (William Shakespeare)

The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)

Flame in the Mist (Renée Ahdieh)

Leah on the Offbeat (Becky Albertalli)

December 2018

Three Japanese Stories (Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kafū Nagai, and Koji Uno)

The Custard Heart (Dorothy Parker)

Dancing Girls and Other Short Stories (Margaret Atwood)

This Mortal Coil (Emily Suvada)

Jinxed (Amy McCulloch)

The Lieutenant (Kate Grenville)

April 2018

Letter from Birmingham Jail (Martin Luther King Jnr)

Molecules of Emotion (Candace B. Pert)

March 2018

The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Agatha Christie)

February 2018

Stancliffe's Hotel (Charlotte Brontë)

The Girl Who Played with Fire (Stieg Larsson)

January 2018

Reborn (Jennifer Rush)

Glitch (Heather Anastasiu)

Persuasion (Jane Austen)

Beta (Rachel Cohn)

Zero Repeat Forever (G. S. Prendergast)

December 2017

Almost Midnight (Rainbow Rowell)

November 9 (Colleen Hoover)

Always and Forever, Lara Jean (Jenny Han)

Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)

All the Bright Places (Jennifer Niven)

February 2017

Cross Game Books 1&2 (Volumes 1-5)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)

The Hunt (Stacey Kade)