Queen B’s Decree: I received this early copy in the YA Book Box from The Strand months ago and I’ve been interested in it since then. Calliope is starting her junior year at an upscale boarding school and she’s decided that this is the year that she A) finds herself and B) get answers about […]
Queen B’s Decree: It’s times like this that I wonder if I’ve outgrown the YA genre. I just couldn’t get into The Rumor Game. The storyline was slow and boring for me, and I wasn’t interested enough in the characters to continue and see if it picked up. None of the characters were particularly likable. […]
Queen B’s Decree: One of my reading goals this year is to read more diverse reads, including: sapphic, nonbinary, written by BIPOC, etc. The One True Me and You was a great addition to that goal. TOTMaY stars Teagan, our “very lesbian” pageant queen competing for a $25,000 scholarship and Kay, our “might be nonbinary” […]
Queen B’s Decree: I was a little hesitant to start At The End of Everything. A book about a pneumonic plague pandemic while living through the real world of the past 18 months? As a healthcare provider, that seemed a little too close to home. And yet, I was sucked in from page one. Told […]
Queen B’s Decree: Cold the Night, Fast the Wolves had an interesting premise. Sena lives on this tundra-like planet where they have a yearly dog-sled race that is more dangerous than what you’d expect here on Earth. She’s an orphan after her mothers both died in a race five years ago and since then, she’s […]
Queen B’s Decree: Everything Will Be Alright is the exact kind of sweet YA I’ve been craving. I loved Smile Like You Mean It and the next in the series picks up right where it left off. Charlotte is adjusting to living with her uncle and becoming friends with her “step-cousin” Sebastian and his four […]
Queen B’s Decree: Love and Other Natural Disasters started off well and featured the “fake relationship” trope, which is usually a crowd pleaser. And at the beginning, I enjoyed Nozomi’s inner monologue. But she didn’t really progress or evolve. In fact, none of the characters had much development and the story line quickly became predictable […]
Queen B’s Decree: I exceptionally loved this book. It combines my love of sweet geeky nerds, gaming, and being true to yourself. Emilia is living a double life: popular straight-A student and field hockey player by day and MMO gamer by night. She’s struggling with living up to her parents’ expectations while trying to make […]
Queen B’s Decree: We Can’t Keep Meeting Like This as a title didn’t fit with the story. I expected a series of meet cutes, maybe some enemies-to-lovers. Instead it’s about Quinn and Tarek, who have been working on weddings most of their lives with their families (wedding planning and catering, respectively) and have been friends […]
Queen B’s Decree: Perfect on Paper had so much LGBTQ+ representation but it didn’t feel gratuitous. I love how normalized it was. This didn’t feel like an exposé about LGBTQ+, it was just a story about teens. Darcy is a bisexual teenager who has been running an anonymous relationship advice service from locker 89 for […]