Genre: Young adult
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Book Review: Once Upon a K-Prom by Kat Cho
Kat Cho is merely known for her fantasy books based on Asian folklore and mythology. But did you know she also published two romance companion novels? I didn’t, until I stumbled upon both books on another blog. The first book in this interconnected duology is Once Upon a K-Prom and tells the story of two…
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Book Review: Salaam, With Love by Sara Sharaf Beg
When I decided to compile my list of young adult books to diversify your reading not that long ago, I stumbled upon Salaam, With Love by Sara Sharaf Beg. Truth be told, I actually forgot about this one. It happened to be on both my TBR and Kindle since late 2021, but I probably lost…
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Book Review: The House Saphir by Marissa Meyer
I know I’m super late, but I missed out on a lot of young adult books when they were actually published. I didn’t know this genre existed back in – let’s say – 2012. This was the time when so many of my beloved series and books got published, and Marissa Meyer’s “The Lunar Chronicles”…
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Book Review: Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater
In autumn 2024, I gave The Raven Boys, the first book in Maggie Stiefvater’s “The Raven Cycle”, another try. Years earlier, I’d made my first attempt in English, but it wasn’t as successful due to the writing style and language being too difficult to follow for me as a non-native English speaker. Even though I…
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Book Review: Crave by Tracy Wolff
In the second half of the 2000s, vampires were pretty popular in – mainly – young adult books. Series like Vampire Academy and Twilight had a huge fandom and remain popular ever since. Not long after the start of the new decade however, this hype fizzled out, and this creature was nowhere to be seen.…