DRY by NEAL + JARROD SHUSTERMAN A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN About halfway into Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman, I asked myself: Why did I think it was a good time to read this book? Not because the book is bad. On the contrary, it’s very good, but it is also…
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ANGES AT THE END OF THE WORLD by KELLY MCWILLIAMS A REVIEW BY ALEXA DUNCAN Before we begin, I know what you’re thinking: Hey, aren’t these supposed to go up on Fridays? What happened? And I am here to validate your memory, dear reader, because these reviews did indeed go up…
ONE OF US IS LYING by KAREN M. MCMANUS A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN If you read YA at all and you aren’t living under a rock, I doubt you missed One of Us is Lying. Unless you’re me. Then you read a LOT of YA and just avoided this…
GRASS by KEUM SUK GENDRY-KIM A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN This is another week, dear readers, where I’m kind of cheating a bit. Grass isn’t necessarily a new book (it was published in 2019), but it’s new to the library and I wanted to review it, so here we are. Grass…
THE BELLES by DHONIELLE CLAYTON A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton has always orbited around my reading circles, but I never gave the book a shot until now. I can’t say why I did–I guess I was just in the mood for some frothy fantasy? And that’s…
I’LL BE THE ONE by LYLA LEE A REVIEW BY ALEXA DUNCAN I make no secret of this, dear readers: I am a K-pop fan. K-pop, short of Korean pop, is a huge part of my life. I’ve seen BTS in concert twice! I saw SuperM in concert last year!…
ASH PRINCESS by LAURA SEBASTIAN A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN I can’t lie to you, dear readers. Ash Princess by Laura Sebastian was not really on my radar. I’d been aware of the book when it was published in 2018, but I hadn’t given it so much as a passing glance. Same…
A SONG OF WRAITHS A RUIN by ROSEANNE A. BROWN A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN One of my most anticipated releases of the year, A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, was published to much fanfare back in the beginning of June. I was so excited to get my hands on…
DEAR HAITI, LOVE ALAINE by MAIKA AND MARITZA MOULITE A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Dear Haiti, Love Alaine is the sort of joyful novel that’s perfect for the summer months. Following seventeen-year-old Alaine Beauparlant as she returns to Haiti, her parents’ homeland, after a particularly disastrous school presentation. Thus begins…