Book Reviews

On this page you can find a complete list of the books I’ve reviewed on the blog. Click on the link in order to be directed to that specific review. 🙂

A

Another Piece of My Heart – Jane Green

A Mercy – Toni Morrison

Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Anil’s Ghost – Michael Ondaajte

Assumption- Percival Everett

A Time To Reap (Legend of Carter Gabel #1) – Jonas Lee

The Art of Deception: Undoing Time – Alyssa Richards

Afterworlds – Scott Westerfield

All The Bright Places – Jennifer Niven

Anna and the Swallow Man – Gabriel Savit

The Accident Season – Maria Fowley-Doyle

And After Many Days – Jowhor Ile

Afterlife With Archie Vol. 1 – Francesco Francavilla (Artist), Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Writer)

An Extraordinary Union (Loyal League #1) – Alyssa Cole

Amina’s Voice – Hena Khan

American Street – Ibi Zoboi

Always and Forever, Lara Jean (To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before #3) – Jenny Han

Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card – Sara Saedi

Am I There Yet? – Mari Andrew

Attack of the Stuff – Jim Benton

A Blue Moon in China – Elizabeth Pillar

A Sweet Mess – Jayci Lee

Awkward – Gurpreet Kaur

Amari and The Night Brothers – B.B. Alston 

American Betiya – Anuradha D. Rajurkar 

B

The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz

Betrayals (Strange Angels #2) – Lili St.Crow

Bloodlines (Bloodlines #1) – Richelle Mead

Black Ice – Becca Fitzpatrick

Beyond The Fortuneteller’s Tent – Kristy Tate

Bright Lines – Tanwi Nandini Islam

Bone Gap – Laura Ruby

The Bone Sparrow – Zana Fraillon

A Bollywood Affair (Bollywood #1) – Sonali Dev

Between You and Me – Lynn Turner

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America – Various Authors

The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri

Black Fortunes: The Story of the First Six African Americans Who Escaped Slavery and Became Millionaires – Shomari Wills

Becoming Beatriz – Tami Charles

By Any Means Necessary – Candice Montgomery

Binding Shadows (Tooth & Spell #1) – Jasmine Silvera

The Belles (Belles #1) – Dhonielle Clayton

The Blazing Star (The Blazing Star #1) – Imani Josey

Burn Baby Burn – Meg Medina

The Black Flamingo – Dean Atta

Brown Girls – Daphne Palasi Andreades

C

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown- Holly Black

Confessions – Kanae Minato

Change of Heart (Bollywood #3) – Sonali Dev

Class of Hope and Change: A Walk with Millennials – Deji Komolafe

Couldn’t Ask for More (The Southern Gentlemen #2) – Kianna Alexander

Clyde – Jim Benton

Color Me In – Natasha Diaz

Child of a Hidden Sea (Hidden Sea Tales #1) – A.M. Dellmonica

The Conductors (Murder and Magic #1) – Nicole Glover

A Comb of Wishes – Lisa Stringfellow

D

Dark Triumph (His Fair Assassin #2) by Robin LaFevers

Disorderly – Jayme Karales

Dorothy Must Die – Danielle Paige

Daughters of Jared – H.B. Moore

Don’t Worry It Gets Worse – Alida Nugent

Dear Killer – Katherine Ewell

A Distant Heart (Bollywood #4) – Sonali Dev

Dating The Prince – Alina Snow

Dawn Among The Stars (Starless Series #1) – Samantha Heuwagen

The Diviners (The Diviners #1) – Libba Bray

Death’s Dancer (Grace Bloods #1) – Jasmine Silvera

The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein – Kiersten White

Dear Haiti, Love Alaine – Aika Moulite & Maritza Moulite

Don’t Date Rosa Santos – Nina Moreno

Don’t Read The Comments – Eric Smith

The Dragon Warrior – Katie Zhao

The Downstairs Girl – Stacey Lee

Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora – Various Authors

A Deadly Fortune – Stacie Murphy

E

Exorsistah (Exorsistah #1) – Claudia Mair Burney

Evil Librarian – Michelle Knudsen

Ever After (Nantucket Brides #3) – Jude Deveraux

Everything Everything – Nicola Yoon

The Emerald Wars – Grace Watson

Every Watering Word – Tanya-Manning Yarde

Enlightenment (The Bathala Series #1) – Reno Ursal

Everything’s Trash, But That’s Okay – Phoebe Robinson

Eva Evergreen, Semi-Magical Witch (Eva Evergreen#1) – Julie Abe

Eighteen – Jenny Jaeckel

F

Fire (Graceling Realm #2) – Kristin Cashore

Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell

The Fall of Arcadia (Arcadian Wars Novel) – M.H. Soars

For Your Love – Beverly Jenkins

The Faerie Guardian (Creepy Hollow #1) – Rachel Morgan

Food: A Love Story – Jim Gaffigan

FU Cancer – Hilaria Alexander

Fill The Sky – Katherine Sherbrooke

The Forbidden Orchid – Sharon Biggs Waller

The Fearless – Emma Pass

Fresh Ink – Lamar Giles (Editor)

Fading Starlight (The Starless Series #2) – Samantha Heuwagen

The Far Away Girl – Sharon Maas

G

Gibbin House – Carola Perla

Glow (Sky Chasers #1) – Amy Kathleen Ryan

Greywalker (Book #1 in the Greywalker Series) – Kat Richardson

Grave Mercy – Robin LaFavers

Graceling (Graceling Realm #1) – Kristin Cashore

Girl Talk – Christie Young

Go Ahead & Like It -Jacqueline Suskin

The Good Goodbye – Carla Schwarz Buckley

Goodbye Days – Jeff Zetner

Geekerella – Ashley Poston

The Graveyard Apartment – Mariko Koike

The Girls in the Picture – Melanie Benjamin

Girl on a Wire -Gwenda Bond

The Girl in Red – Christina Henry

Grace in the Wings (Grace Michelle Mystery #1) – Kari Bovee

The Girls With No Names – Serena Burdick

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations – Mira Jabob

The Girl from the Well – Rin Chupeco

The Gatekeeper’s Staff (TJ Young & The Orishas #1) – Antoine Bandele

Ghost Girl – Ally Malinenko

H

The Heart Goes Last – Margaret Atwood

The Hate U Give – Angie Thomas

House of Rougeaux – Jenny Jaeckel

Hamilton’s Battalion: A Trio of Romances – Courtney Milan, Alyssa Cole, Rose Lerner

The Henna Artist – Alka Joshi

Horizontal Collaboration – Navie (Author), Carole Maurel (Illustrator)

The Honey Don’t List – Christina Lauren

Head Over Heels – Hannah Orenstein

Hate Crush – Angelina M. Lopez

Here To Stay – Adriana Herrera

Honey Girl – Morgan Rogers

The Happiness Thief – Nicole Bokat

Heroine Complex (Heroine Complex#1) – Sarah Kuhn

Happily Ever Afters – Elise Bryant

I

I’ve Got Your Number- Sophie Kinsella

The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden #1)- Julie Kagawa

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?- Mindy Kaling

The Iron King (The Iron Fey #1) – Julie Kagawa

The Iron Daughter (The Iron Fey #2) – Julie Kagawa

The Iron Queen (The Iron Fey #3) – Julie Kagawa

The Impossible Knife of Memory – Laurie Halse Anderson

Ink (Paper Gods#1)- Amanda Sun

The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines #3) – Richelle Mead

I’ll Give You The Sun – Jandy Nelson

The Instant Happy Journal – Karen Salmansohn

I Almost Forgot About You – Terry McMillan

In Tune – JN Welsh

I Am Yours: A Shared Memoir – Reema Zaman

I Owe You One – Sophie Kinsella

The Iron Raven – Julie Kagawa

In the Wake of Stars (Starless Series #4) – Samantha Heuwagen

J

Julia and the Art of Practical Travel – Lesley M. M. Blume

Just So Happens – Fumio Obata

Julia Vanishes – Catherine Egan

Juliet Takes a Breath – Gabby Rivera

Juniper Leaves: The Otherworldly Tale of a Lonesome Magical Girl – Jaz Joyner

Juba! – Walter Dean Myers

Josephine Against the Sea – Shakirah Bourne

K

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini

Kingdom of Souls – Rena Barron

A Killing Fire – Faye Snowden

Kindred – Octavia Butler

Kisses and Croissants – Anne-Sophie Jouhanneau

L

Little Shop of Homicide – Denise Swanson

Lightpoints – Peter Kassan

The Little School – Alicia Partnoy

Learning Not To Drown – Anna Shinoda

The League of Beastly Dreadfuls #1 – Holly Grant

The Little Paris Bookshop – Nina George

Lady Renegades (Rebel Belle #3) – Rachel Hawkins

Labyrinth Lost (Brooklyn Brjuas #1) – Zoraida Cordova

Like a River Glorious (Gold Seer Trilogy #2) – Rae Carson

Lucky Boy – Shanthi Sekaran

Like Vanessa – Tami Charles

Listen To Your Heart – Kasie West

Legacy of Danger (Hell’s Valley #3) – Jillian David

Legacy Found (Hell’s Valley #4) – Jillian David

Lock Every Door – Riley Sager

A Love Hate Thing – Whitney D. Grandison

The Last Story of Mina Lee – Nancy Jooyoun Kim

The Lost Apothecary – Sarah Penner

Like Home – Louisa OnomĂ© 

To Love and to Loathe (The Regency Vows #2) by Martha Waters

M

The Moon And More – Sarah Dessen

Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassins #3) – Robin LaFevers

Muirwood: The Lost Abbey #1 – Jeff Wheeler

Miss Mayhem (Rebel Belle #2) – Rachel Hawkins

Multiple Listings – Tracy McMillan

The Masked Truth – Kelley Armstrong

March: Book One – John Lewis

Miss Sherlock Holmes – Brad Ricca

My Last Love Story – Falguni Kothari

Mammoth -Jill Baguchinsky

My Sister, The Serial Killer – Oyinkan Braithwaite

My Totem Came Calling – Thorsten Nesch & Blessing Musariri

Mercy of the Lawless (Captive Series #5) – J.A. Denham

My Summer of Love and Misfortune – Lindsay Wong

The Music of What Happens – Bill Konigsberg

Music of The Night – Angela J. Ford

The Marvelous Mirza Girls – Sheba Karim 

N

Nat Turner – Kyle Baker

Not My Daughter – Barbara Delinsky

No-where But Here – Kate McGarry

Night on Fire – Ronald Kidd

Never Mind My Thigh Gap – Sarah Newton & Bronte Huskinson

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune – Rosalie Lim

Not The Girl You Marry – Andie J. Christopher 

Never Too Soon – Tamika Christy

Nowhere on Earth – Nick Lake

O

The Opposite of Maybe – Maddie Dawson

Of Metal And Wishes (Of Metal And Wishes #1) – Sarah Fine

The Orphan Mother – Robert Hicks

Outrun The Moon – Stacey Lee

One Week of You – Lisa Williams Kline

On the Corner of Love and Hate (Hopeless Romantics #1) – Nina Bocci

One Night in Georgia – Celeste O. Norfleet

Obscura – Cartwright Luke & Wnuczek Lukasz (Illustrations) 

One of The Good Ones – Maika & Maritza Moulite

P

Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi

Poltergeist (Book #2 in the Greywalker Series)- Kat Richardson

Paranormalcy (Book #1 in the Paranormalcy Series) – Kiersten White

Prophecy of Arcadia (Arcadian Warriors #1) – M.H. Soars

Peanut – Ayun Halliday & Paul Hoppe

Princess of Thorns – Stacey Jay

The Phoenix Shadow (Arcadian Wars #2) – M.H. Soars

Prisoner of Night & Fog (Prisoner of Night & Fog #1) – Anne Blankman

Pieces of Why – K.L. Going

Power of the Matchmaker – Various Authors

P.S. I Still Love You – Jenny Han

Placebo Junkies – J.C. Carleson

The Path To Dawn (Opal Charm #1) – Miri Castor

Penance – Kanae Minato

Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe – Melissa De La Cruz

The Prince and The Dressmaker – Jen Wang

Pas De Deux: A Dance For Two – Lynn Turner

Pas De Deux: A Christmas Short – Lynn Turner

ParaNorthern: And the Chaos Bunny A-hop-calypse – Stephanie Cooke (Author), Mari Costa (Artist)

Pining Over You – J.N. Welsh

Q

The Quality of Silence – Rosamund Lupton

Quests and Quandaries (The Floating Isles #1) by Alda Yuan

Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams

Quincredible Vol. 1: Quest to Be the Best! – Rodney Barnes

Quincredible Vol. 2: The Hero Within – Rodney Barnes

R

The Ring & The Crown – Melissa De La Cruz

Rebel Belle (Rebel Belle #1) – Rachel Hawkins

Rooms – Lauren Oliver

Renaissance Faire – Jane Stain

The Requiem Red – Brynn Chapman

Radio Girls – Sarah Jane Stratford

Rebel of the Sands (Rebel of the Sands #1) – Alwyn Hamilton

Radiance of Tomorrow – Ishmael Beah 

Running Away To Home ( The Journey Trilogy #1) by Lita Hooper

Rad Women Worldwide – Kate Schatz

Roomies – Christina Lauren

The River by Starlight – Ellen Notbohm

Risking It All – Joyce d’Mot

A River of Stars – Vanessa Hua

Rebel in Library of Ever (The Library of Ever #2) – Zeno Alexander

Relentless – Katherine Itacy

The Right Side of Reckless – Whitney D. Grandison

S

Shadow Heart (Broken Bottles #1) – Pamela Taeuffer

Strange Angels (Book #1 of the Strange Angel Series)- Lili St.Crow

The Shambling Guide To New York City (Shambling Guides #1) – Mur Lafferty

Slide – Jill Hathaway

Scarlette – Davonna Juroe

Sozaboy – Ken Saro-Wiwa

Stella Rose – Tammy Flanders Hetrick

The Stars Never Rise (#1) – Rachel Vincent

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids – Sarah Ockler

Spook Lights – Eden Royce

The Story of Beautiful Girl – Rachel Simon

The Steep & Thorny Way – Cat Winters

Street of Eternal Happiness – Rob Schmitz

Sarah’s Scribbles – Sarah Andersen

Santa Muerte (The Daniela Story #1) – Lucina Stone

Saving Montgomery Sole – Mariko Tamaki

The Star-Touched Queen – Roshani Chokshi

A Shadow Bright and Burning (Kingdom on Fire #1) by Jessica Clueless

The Story of Lizzy and Darcy – Grace Watson

Starfish – Akemi Bowman Dawn

A Small Charred Face – Kazuki Sakuraba

The Soldier Prince (Royals of StellangĂĄrd Saga #1) – Aarti V. Raman

So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know – Rhetta

Somewhere Only We Know – Maureen Goo

Sweet Talkin’ Lover: A Girls Trip Novel – Tracey Livesay

Spin The Dawn (The Blood of Stars #1) – Elizabeth Lim

Stardust Emerging (The Starless Series #3) – Samantha Heuwagen

The Sweeney Sisters – Lian Dolan

Saving Ruby King – Catherine Adel West

Secret Crush Seduction – Jayci Lee

Serpent & Dove – Shelby Mahurin 

Smash It! – Francina Simone

Super Detectives (Simon and Chester Book #1) – Cale Atkinson

Stupid Love Comedy – ShuShuShu Sakurai

Sir Simon: Super Scarer – Cale Atkinson

Sprite and the Gardener – Joe Whitt & Rii Abrego 

Strictly on Ice – Helen Buckley

The Spineless Porcupine: Why Our Difference Are Superpowers – Say Yang

A Spy in the House (The Agency #1) – Y.S. Lee

T

To All The Boys I’ve Ever Loved – Jenny Han

Through The Woods – Emily Carroll

The Secrets of Life and Death – Rebecca Alexander

That Salty Air – Tim Sievert

Teen Frankenstein (High School Horror #1) – Chandler Baker

“They’re Not Like Us: Black Holes For The Young” Vol.1 by Eric Stephenson

The Third Daughter (Royals of Dharia #1) – Susan Kaye Quinn

Trixi Pudong and The Greater World – Audrey Mei

Thief of Lies (Library Jumpers #1) – Brenda Drake

Teacher’s Pet – Jason Li

Tomorrow – Merilyn Ruth Lidell

To Kill a Curse (A Lingering Seas Novel #1) – Jennifer Jenkins

Twice in a Blue Moon – Christina Lauren

Temporary Wife Temptation – Jayci Lee

To Have and To Hoax – Martha Waters

A Taste of Sage – Yaffa S. Santos

Tokyo Ueno Statio – Miri Yu

This Is Major: Notes on Diana Ross, Dark Girls, and Being Dope – Shayla Lawson

Turning Point ( So Done #3) – Paula Chase

This is My America – Kim Johnson

Ten Rules for Faking It – Sophie Sullivan 

To Love and to Loathe (The Regency Vows #2) – Martha Waters

To Hair and Back: My Journey Toward Self-Love One Strand at a Time – Rhonda Eason 

U

The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B – Teresa Toten

The Unfortunate Decisions of Dahlia Moss – Max Wirestone

Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady’s Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manner – Therese O’ Neal

Unreasonable Doubts – Reyna Marder Gentin

Unmarriageable -Soniah Kamal

The Unhoneymooners – Christina Lauren

The Unwilling – Kelly Braffet

V

Virgin – Radhika Sanghani

The Vanishing Half – Brit Bennett

W

Water So Deep – Nichole Giles

Wicked Appetite – Janet Evanovich

Wedding Night- Sophie Kinsella

The Winner’s (Winner’s Trilogy #1) – Marie Rutkoski 

Without You, There Is No Us – Suki Kim

We Are All Made of Molecules – Susin Nielsen

War: A Crime Against Humanity – Roberto Vivo

White Collar Girl – Renee Rosen

Walk on Earth a Stranger (Gold Seer Trilogy #1) – Rae Carson

The White Rose (The Lone City #2) – Amy Ewing

When We Collided – Emery Lord

Where Am I Now? – Mara Wilson

The Way to Game the Walk of Shame – Jenn P. Nguyen

Water Into WIne – Joyce Chng

Women In Sports: 50 Fearless Athletes Who Played to Win – Rachel Ignotofsky 

When Dimple Met Rishi – Sandhya Menon

Well, That Escalated Quickly: Memoirs and Mistakes of an Accidental Activist – Franchesca Ramsey 

We Are Not Yet Equal – Carol Anderson & Tonya Bolden

Well Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves – Glory Edim

A Wedding, One Christmas – Therese Beharrie

The Wedding Date -Jasmine Guillory

The Wrythe and the Reckoning – Yvonthia Meredith Leland

The Way You Make Me Feel – Maureen Goo

What Happens in the Highlands – Kelsey Mcknight

A Well-Read Woman: The Life, Loves, and Legacy of Ruth Rappaport – Kate Stewart

Who Put This Song On? – Morgan Parker

Womentality: Thirteen Empowering Stories by Everyday Women Who Said Goodbye to the Workplace and Hello to Their Lives – Erin Wildermuth

What We Deserve – Alyssa Nohar

White Coat Diaries – Madi Sinha

Wings of Ebony (Wings of Ebony #1) – J. Elle 

X

X Returns (Exorsistah #2) – Claudia Mair Burney

Y

You Don’t Have to Like Me – Alida Nugent

You Are Mine (Mine #1) – Janeal Falor

You’re Welcome, Universe -Whitney Gardner

Z

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5 to 1 – Holly Bodger

500 Words or Less – Juleah del Rosario

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