I started reviewing eARCs through Netgalley at the end of last year, and I hate that I don't love all of them. There are so many out there that I do love (and I've requested way too many) that I just don't have the time or energy to read books that I'm not enjoying. I definitely want to give books a chance, but I'm not going to force myself to keep reading something that I don't like. That being said, I understand that sometimes what I dislike about a book may make others want to read the book all the more. Thus far in 2019, there have been 3 ARCs that I ultimately decided to dnf. Here are my reviews, so you can decide for yourself if this recent release is something that should go on your tbr. Castle of Lies by Kiersi Burkhart I tried so hard to like and finish this book, but I just couldn't. The pov voices sound like the same, narration is far too repetitive. I kept on giving this book chances but nothing was able to entice me to keep reading. I h...

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. It's another week of Top Ten Tuesday! This week's prompt is the top ten books for your summer tbr. I Spring Wrap Up , which I based off of my spring tbr , I only read one out of the ten books that I thought I was going to read, despite managing to finish a ton of books in the spring. just did my So far, my summer reading has gone alright, though nowhere near as much as my dream goal was. Still, I have managed to read some pretty great books and hope that the rest of the summer is able to go as smoothly. Classes start August 26, so I do hope to read as much as possible before then, because it is always hard to tell what a change will have in store for reading and blogging. Let's get started! Will I read all of these books this summer? Pr...

Back in March, I posted my Spring 2019 TBR here . So much has managed to occur in such a short amount of time. I did not read all the books that I said I was going to read, at all. In fact, of the ten books on that list, I only read one: A Study in Charlotte . To make things even odder, I read that book the day after I wrote the tbr post and then again in May because I forgot important details when trying to read The Last of August . It's a little disappointing though because I was really excited about reading some of those books and just was unable to finally be able to get to any of them. Still, at some point I'll read them. I just have so many books that I want to read and there just is not enough time for me to actually get this all read. I'm out of school now, which should make finding time to post on this blog easier. However, it has proved more difficult than I had initially hoped. Sure, I managed to read through finals, but back home proves to be harder than I...

Welcome back to another week of Top Ten Tuesday! Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by  That Artsy Reader Girl with prompts every week! This one was surprisingly hard for me, maybe because I'm not really in the middle of any great series right now and all of the authors I read a lot aren't releasing this fall. I did include multiple books that I already got from Netgalley but they have not yet come out and I am behind but I still want to read them because I'm excited about their potential and hope that they are as amazing as I wish. So let's get started! Of Ice and Shadows by Audrey Coulthurst- Mare and Denna are an amazing sapp hic couple. I loved Of Ice and Shadows, and I absolutely cannot wait to read the sequel, but I have to. I am really excited for this book. Girls of Storm and Shadow by Natasha Ngan- I got my sister the first book for Christmas and still haven't read it, but this is another amazing sapphic series that I need to read. My sister loved...

Title: Something Like Gravity Author: Amber Smith Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, LGBTQ Trigger Warning: Bullying, Homophobia, Transphobia, Misgendering, Language/Slurs, Mentions of Violence Rating: 3 stars Release Date: June 18 Synopsis For fans of Love, Simon and Eleanor & Park, a romantic and sweet novel about a transgender boy who falls in love for the first time—and how first love changes us all—from New York Times bestselling author Amber Smith. Chris and Maia aren’t off to a great start. A near-fatal car accident first brings them together, and their next encounters don’t fare much better. Chris’s good intentions backfire. Maia’s temper gets the best of her. But they’re neighbors, at least for the summer, and despite their best efforts, they just can’t seem to stay away from each other. The path forward isn’t easy. Chris has come out ...

And I'm back for another week of Top Ten Tuesday! This prompt was really interesting for me, and I'm sure that there were be a lot of really interesting responses, since none of us have the same opinions. I chose four really specific things I want to argue and six that are just facts. So let's get started! Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl Book quotes in book reviews. I seriously don't understand this because yeah, I might laugh at a certain quote or something, but I never get this involved into recording it and keeping it. I never get this involved into this idea ever. Owning so many copies of the same book. I mean, do what you what and I understand that there are a bunch of different covers that are beautiful, but I don't understand dropping that much money on a book when you could buy another book that you haven't read yet or don't own. It might be cool to have all these pretty covers, but that's a lot of...

It's time for another Top Ten Tuesday ! I had a lot of fun and an easy time writing this post, and I can't wait to see how everyone else ended up taking this prompt in their own direction. As soon as I saw this, I knew that I would be making a list of my top ten books in young adult romance. I did go a little back and forth between contemporary and romance, but narrowing it down to romance made it easier to come up with a list of only ten books. These books are in no particular order, because it would seriously be far too hard to try to sort through all of these books, all that I absolutely love. So let's get started! These are books that I would definitely recommend for anyone who read young adult romances. They are so cute and you will definitely end up shipping the couples in the end. Catching Jordan is the first young adult romance book I ever read and definitely the reason why I fell in love with the genre. Also, so many of the other Hundred Oaks books are amaz...

Title:   All the Worlds Between Us Author: Morgan Lee Miller Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance, LGBTQ Trigger Warning: Bullying, Homophobia, Language/Slurs, Sexual Scenarios Rating: 3 stars Release Date: May 14, 2019 Synopsis Seventeen-year-old Quinn Hughes needs to be in top shape if she wants to medal at the swimming World Championships in ten months. This means no easy distractions, no matter how pretty they are. She’s still piecing her confidence back together after not qualifying for the Olympics, her relationship with her twin brother is getting worse the more he hangs out with the popular kids, and then Kennedy Reed suddenly squeezes herself back into Quinn’s life. The girl who was her best friend. The girl who gave Quinn her first kiss. The girl who hasn’t spoken to her since. Soon, Quinn finds herself juggling her new girlfriend, training for the biggest competition of her...