THE FRAGRANT FLOWER BLOOMS WITH DIGNITY 1 by SAKA MIKAMI A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN “Two rival schools unalike in dignity,” reads the back copy of the first volume of The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity. This romance manga clearly takes its cues from Romeo and Juliet, boasting rival schools,…
THAT’S NOT MY NAME by MEGAN LALLY A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Waking up half-dead in a ditch with no memory of how you got there, then being taken home by a man who claims to be your father is a little scary to say the least. This is exactly…
TO THE BONE by ALENA BRUZAS A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Imagine living in a place you’ve never been before–so few people have–where you are unwelcome, unwanted, and…you’re starving. Everyone around you is starving, too. This is the reality for Ellis, a teen girl living in the American colony of…
YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DIE TONIGHT by KAYLNN BAYRON A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN When you’re the final girl–the girl destined to make it out alive at the end of the horror movie–there’s only one thing you need to do: survive. That’s exactly what Charity is paid to do at Camp…
THE DARK WE KNOW by WEN-YI LEE A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN It’s official, readers. We are now entering Spooky Season, the greatest season of them all. Because of this, I figured it would be the perfect time to read and review a spooky book. Enter The Dark We Know…
SONG OF THE SIX REALMS by JUDY LIN A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Hello, dear readers, and welcome back to your regularly scheduled book reviews! I took the summer off to focus on summer reading, but now that it’s over, I’m back to reading and reviewing. The first book of…
DANCING AT THE PITY PARTY by TYLER FEDER A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder is a difficult graphic novel to read. Not because the text is hard to decipher or because the art is bad. Rather, Dancing at the Pity Party is hard because of…
BLESS THE BLOOD by WALELA NEHANDA A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN TRIGGER WARNING: Discussions of cancer throughout For this week’s review, dear readers, we’re going to switch things up a bit. The book I’m reviewing is not a novel, rather a YA memoir written in poetry, verse, and prose. That…
ROADQUEEN by MIRA ONG CHUA A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Road Queen by Mira Ong Chua is a very interesting graphic novel. Why? Because it straddles the line between Western comics and Japanese manga to the point where I could easily see this being a manga. The book features Leo and…
RED WOLF by RACHEL VINCENT A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN When I saw that Rachel Vincent, an icon of early/mid-2000s YA paranormal romance, wrote a new book retelling Little Red Riding Hood, I knew I had to read it. Not only do I love some good old fashioned paranormal romance,…