Category: Coming-of-Age

  • Review: SAVING RUBY KING by Catherine Adel West

    Review: SAVING RUBY KING by Catherine Adel West

    Thank you so much Park Row Books for my free copy.  Description: When Ruby King’s mother is found murdered in their home in Chicago’s South Side, the police dismiss it as another act of violence in a black neighborhood. But for Ruby, it’s a devastating loss that leaves her on her own with her violent…

  • Review: OONA OUT OF ORDER by Margarita Montimore

    Review: OONA OUT OF ORDER by Margarita Montimore

    Thank you so much Book Sparks and Flatiron for my free copy. Description: It’s New Year’s Eve 1982, and Oona Lockhart has her whole life before her. At the stroke of midnight she will turn nineteen, and the year ahead promises to be one of consequence. Should she go to London to study economics, or…

  • Review: ANNA K by Jenny Lee

    Review: ANNA K by Jenny Lee

    Thank you so much Book Sparks and Flatiron for my free copy. Description: At seventeen, Anna K is at the top of Manhattan and Greenwich society (even if she prefers the company of her horses and dogs); she has the perfect (if perfectly boring) boyfriend, Alexander W.; and she has always made her Korean-American father…

  • Blog Tour: THE DEAD GIRLS CLUB by Damien Angelica Walters

    Blog Tour: THE DEAD GIRLS CLUB by Damien Angelica Walters

    Thank you so much to Crooked Lane Books for my free copy.  Description:  Red Lady, Red Lady, show us your face… In 1991, Heather Cole and her friends were members of the Dead Girls Club. Obsessed with the macabre, the girls exchanged stories about serial killers and imaginary monsters, like the Red Lady, the spirit…

  • Blog Tour & Review: WILDCHILDS by Eugenia Melian

    Blog Tour & Review: WILDCHILDS by Eugenia Melian

    Thank you so much Smith Publicity for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own.  Description:  Seventeen years ago, Iris was forced to abandon Gus, the love of her life, and her career as a top model in Paris. She has created a new life for herself and her daughter,  Lou,  in California.…

  • Blog Tour & Review: THE ANCIENT NINE by Ian Smith

    Blog Tour & Review: THE ANCIENT NINE by Ian Smith

    Thank you so much St. Martin’s Press for inviting me to participate in the blog tour and my free review copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  Spenser Collins is an unlikely Harvard prospect and Dalton Winthrop is a white-shoe legacy at Harvard. The two find enough common ground to become friends, cementing their bond when Spenser is “punched”…

  • Review: FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    Review: FRUIT OF THE DRUNKEN TREE by Ingrid Rojas Contreras

    Thank you so much Doubleday Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Book Description:  Seven-year-old Chula and her older sister Cassandra enjoy carefree lives thanks to their gated community in Bogotá, but the threat of kidnappings, car bombs, and assassinations hover just outside the neighborhood walls, where the godlike drug…

  • Review: THE MYTH OF PERPETUAL SUMMER by Susan Crandall

    Review: THE MYTH OF PERPETUAL SUMMER by Susan Crandall

    Thank you so much Gallery Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description:  Tallulah James’s parents’ volatile relationship, erratic behavior, and hands-off approach to child rearing set tongues to wagging in their staid Mississippi town, complicating her already uncertain life. She takes the responsibility of shielding her family’s reputation and…

  • Review: TIN MAN by Sarah Winman

    Review: TIN MAN by Sarah Winman

    Many thanks to Putnam Books for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description: This is almost a love story. But it’s not as simple as that. Ellis and Michael are twelve-year-old boys when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the…

  • Review: THE PISCES by Melissa Broder

    Review: THE PISCES by Melissa Broder

    Thank you so much to Crown Publishing and Hogarth Press for providing my free copy – all opinions are my own. Description:  Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles…