Title: Come Tumbling Down Series: Wayward Children, #5 Author: Seanan McGuire Pages: 206 Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, LGBTQ, Novella Story Perspective: Third-Person Omniscient Themes: Determination, Friendship, Love, Balance Publication Date: January 7, 2020 Publisher: Tor.com Jack is back in Eleanor West’s School for Wayward Children and needs the assistance of her friends…… Continue reading Book Review: Come Tumbling Down by Seanan McGuire
Title: Birthday Author: Meredith Russo Pages: 288 Genre: Young Adult, LGBTQ Story Perspective: Alternating First-Person Themes: Relationships, Family, Friendship, Love, Grief, Loss, Identity, Suicide, Truth, Secrets, Self-Acceptance Publication Date: May 21, 2019 Publisher: Flatiron Books Morgan and Eric are best friends and have spent almost every birthday together since birth as they were born on the same day. As the years…… Continue reading Book Review: Birthday by Meredith Russo
Title: The Darkest Part of the Forest Author: Holly Black Pages: 336 Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, LGBT, Romance Story Perspective: Third-Person Themes: Love, Relationships, Trust, Family, Sacrifice Publication Date: January 13th, 2015 Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers In the small and quaint town of Fairfold, where people and fae live together, lies a sleeping horned boy in a…… Continue reading Book Review: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black
Pages: 613 Genre: Young Adult/Paranormal/LGBTQ Publication Date: August 25, 2015 Story Perspective: Alternating Third-Person Themes: Friendship, Relationships, Good vs. Evil In the midst of the hustle and bustle of New York City, there is a sickness spreading. A sleeping sickness in which people fall into such a deep slumber, they never wake up… The Diviners, Henry, Evie, Sam, Memphis, and…… Continue reading Book Review: Lair of Dreams by Libba Bray
Pages: 174 Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy/LGBTQ/Adventure Publication Date: January 9, 2018 Story Perspective: Alternating Third-Person Themes: Weight, Identity, Friendship, Relationships Rini enters Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children. What confuses everyone is how can Rini be alive when her mother died in her teenage years? That’s the way it is living in a Nonsense world! Returning characters, Kade and Christopher, and new…… Continue reading Book Review: Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
👻😈Here’s another spooky book for the month of October! 😈👻 Pages: 169 Genre: Young Adult/Fantasy/LGBTQ/Mystery/Horror Publication Date: April 5, 2016 Story Perspective: Alternating Third-Person Themes: Identity, Acceptance, Friendship Wayward School is one that is only reachable to certain children and teenagers. When that magical door appears to a child/teenager, he/she enters. The door can appear and reappear just about anywhere,…… Continue reading 🎃Spooky Book Review🎃: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Pages: 415 Genre: Contemporary/Mystery/Romance/Suspense Publication Date: April 2, 2018 Story Perspective: Alternating third-person Themes: Romance, Family, Consequences, Abuse, Rape, Courage, Forgiveness In the 1980’s, Amalia Graeme is ready to leave her emotionally and physically abusive mother. She is ready to start a new life at college. However, what she once thought of as a fresh new start turns into something…… Continue reading Book Review: Father Figure by James J. Cudney
