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Looking for a Contemporary Young Adult Book? Look No Further
Book Review of A Good Kind of Trouble by Brooke Blurton & Melanie Saward Published: January 29th, 2025 by HarperCollins AURating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.25 (4.25 Stars)Genres: YA (Young Adult), Coming of Age, LGBTQIA+Series: Book 1 of Unknown CW/TW: Bullying, racism, homophobia, sexism. A Good Kind of Trouble High school is hard for most people, especially in a small town. People get bullied for being queer, they get discriminated against for being Aboriginal and suffer the sexist double standards for being a girl. Jamie is all three. She survives the day-to-day struggles of high school by focusing on footy, her family and her crush on her best friend, Loz. When a new girl…
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What’s The Best Way to Learn about Black History? Time Travel.
Book Review of Time Tub Travellers and The Silk Thief by Claire Linney Published: March 21st, 2024Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐.5 (4.5 Stars)Genres: Middle-Grade (7-12 years), Sci-Fi, Historical Fiction, AdventureSeries: Time Tub Travellers (Book 1 of 3) CW/TW: Mentions of kidnapping, brief systematic racism (at the beginning and is a critically plot point). Welcome to The World of Time Travelling Bathtubs Zula is crushed when she receives the grade for her history project. No math team for her. But when she asks why, her teacher explains that there were no Black people in Tudor London. But that can’t be true, can it? Determined to find out the truth, Zula’s dad takes her and…
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Duty or Heart, What Would You Choose?
Crown Princess Layna's kingdom is on the brink of war. She is prepared to do her duty and secure a alliance through a political marriage. However, her heart has other plans. Warrior Prince Zarian arrives at court and works his way into the heart of the princess. Beholdent to his own mysterious duty, Zarian finds himself struggling between a secret prophecy and the call of his heart. Can Layna lead her kingdom to survive the inevitable war and follow her heart at the same time? Or will the prophecy alter her entire world?
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Can a 21st-Century Woman Survive in The 1800s?
Elena and Elle are the spitting image of one another. The major difference? They live centuries apart. However, with the aid of a magical wardrobe (a nod to Narnia) the end up switching places. The only way they can return home is for 21st century Elena to complete a quest set forth by Victorian-era Elle. The task? Find her missing friend. With no knowledge of Elle's history (other than her diary), no internet and having to play the part of a good Victorian socialite, Elena is in for quite the adventure.
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Fluffy Romance, Video Games and Spice, What More Could You Want?
When your ex breaks up with you over a game the next logical step is obviously to level up in the game and out rank him. That's exactly what Emma did, it may have taken her three years, but she did it. However the celebration is ruined by toxic insults from a teammate. The mood is ruined so much that Emma barely speaks to the man in the internet cafe that watched her rank up and congratulates her. It's not until a friend sends her a video of that same man, who turns out to be one of the most famous pro gamers in North America, reaching out on to…
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Steamy Workplace Romance in a Small-Town Inn
Jackson's grandmother has passed, leaving him her shares in a country inn that the family didn't know she owned. With the plea for Jackson to at least give it six months before giving up on the inn and selling. Meyer is about to inherit the inn from her mother. She has big plans for the inn. Plans that will show the town that she's no longer the little girl they once knew but a successful businesswoman. Little does she know that her mum doesn't outright own the inn, and when Jackson arrives, Meyer has a few choice words for him.
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A Quick, Fun and Cozy Novella Series
A review of the Lovespelled novella series so far. Novellas Witchfished and Vampboozled are paranormal romances with cozy mysteries. Both are short reads you can start and finish in an afternoon.
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New School, New Home AND She Sees Ghosts?
12 year old Claire’s life has changed. Her grandmother and guardian has passed, forcing her to move in with her aunt (absent father’s sister) who she’s never met. New home, new school, new people everywhere and on top of all of that, she’s hiding a secret.
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Is Love Enough to End a War?
Angie returns home for college break to work at her father’s docks in their small fishing town in Alaska. Soon the fish start disappearing, people are going hungry and the dock workers investigate. Angie discovers that the myths and folklore of mer-folk she was obsessed with as a kid is all true, and the mer-folk aren’t happy with how humans treat the creatures of the see. So they’ve kept the fish from them. As tensions rise and starvation ensues, war between humans and the mer-folk is enevitable. But can an alliance between Angie and the mer-folk prince help restore peace before all is lost? Or will Angie have to choose…
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Always Second Best to The Perfect Dead Wife
When Emma first meets Matthew, everything is perfect. She is at the top of her game in every aspect of her life. With a mutual attraction, they quickly fall into a serious relationship. Matthew is great. But Matthew is a widower, and Emma finds herself in competition with the memory of his wife, and she's coming second place. This frustration escalates as strange things start happening. While these incidents start harmless, they slowly become more and more threatening until it's clear that Emma's life is in danger. Matthew thinks she's drinking too much. Emma's friends think he's gaslighting her. Emma thinks she's being haunted.
