September 07, 2024

Immortal Dark

   


Title - Immortal Dark
Author - Tigest Girma
Release Date -  September 3, 2024
Genre - Young Adult Paranormal Romance

The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House in this dangerously romantic dark academia fantasy, where a lost heiress must infiltrate an arcane society and live with the vampire she suspects killed her family and kidnapped her sister. It began long before my time, but something has always hunted our family.

Orphaned heiress Kidan Adane grew up far from the arcane society she was born into, where human bloodlines gain power through vampire companionship. When her sister, June, disappears, Kidan is convinced a vampire stole her, the very vampire bound to their family, the cruel yet captivating Susenyos Sagad.

To find June, Kidan must infiltrate the elite Uxlay University — where students study to ensurepeaceful coexistence between humans and vampires and inherit their family legacies. Kidan must survive living with Susenyos — even as he does everything he can to drive her away. It doesn’t matter that Susenyos’s wickedness speaks to Kidan’s own violent nature and tempts her to surrender to a life of darkness. She must find her sister and kill Susenyos at all costs.

When a murder mirroring June’s disappearance shakes Uxlay, Kidan sinks further into the ruthless underworld of vampires, risking her very soul. There she discovers a centuries - old threat — and June could be at the center of it. To save her sister, Kidan must bring Uxlay to its knees and either break free from the horrors of her own actions or embrace the dark entanglements of love — and the blood it requires. 

Content Warning:
parental abuse, blood drinking, death, gore, murder, sexual content, adult language, suicide ideation, and violence, kidnapping
       






Tigest Girma is an Ethiopian writer based in Melbourne Australia. After graduating with a Bachelors of Education she splits her time between writing and teaching. Passionate about exploring East African characters and myths, her work weaves Black stories with the dark and fantastical. In her free time, she can be found rewatching her comfort shorts where the villain gets the girl.










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May 22, 2024

Lamplighter

  


Title - The Lamplighter
Author - Crystal J. Bell
Release Date -  May 21st, 2024
Genre - Young Adult Historical Horror

It’s an honor to bring light to the dark.

The whaling village of Warbler is famous for its lucky ship figureheads
and infamous for people disappearing into the nightly fog. In this murky locale, the lamplighter position is synonymous with safety and protection, and it’s a position Temperance assumes when her
father is found hanging from one of the lampposts. Though Tempe proves competent, the town is still hesitant to let a woman handle this responsibility.

When a girl goes missing after two lamps go out, Tempe’s ability to provide for her mother and younger sister hangs in the balance. She scrambles for answers, hindered at every turn by the village authorities’ call for her removal. As more villagers vanish under her watch, Tempe discovers unsettling truths about the famous Warbler figureheads and her own beloved father. But her warnings of a monster are ignored, even by her own family. Now she must follow the light out of her own fog of despair, as she faces the choice to look the other way or risk speaking out and possibly dooming herself and her sister to be among the lost.

Content Warning:
Murder, death of a parent
       






Crystal J. Bell is a Colorado native who writes horror and fantasy with the intent to make readers both eager and uneasy to turn the pages of her books. When she isn’t drinking up autumn like the elixir of life, she can be found on the back patio with her laptop and a book, out on the reservoirs on her stand up paddle board, or cooking in the kitchen with her husband. Most likely pasta..








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May 15, 2024

Summer Vamp

 


Title - Summer Vamp
Author - Violet Chan Karim
Release Date -  May 14th, 2024
Genre - Middle Grade Fantasy

What happens when a very human kid ends up at the wrong summer camp—FOR VAMPIRES?! This quirky and heart warming graphic novel about making friends and getting in trouble is perfect for fans of Witches of Brooklyn.

After a lackluster school year, Maya anticipates an even more disappointing summer. The only thing she’s looking forward to is cooking and mixing ingredients in the kitchen, which these days brings her more joy than mingling with her peers . . . that is until her dad’s girlfriend registers her for culinary summer camp! Maya’s summer is saved! . . . or not. 

What was meant to be a summer filled with baking pastries and cooking pasta is suddenly looking a lot . . . paler?! Why do all of the kids have pointy fangs? And hate garlic? Turns out that Maya isn’t at culinary camp—she’s at a camp for VAMPIRES! Maya has a lot to learn if she’s going to survive this summer . . . and if she’s lucky, she might even make some friends along the way.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Review
    As someone who doesn't usually pick up middle grade books, I am glad I gave this one a shot. Maya our main character loves to cook and can't wait to spend her summer at a culinary camp, but when the buses are mixed up she ends up at a vampire camp instead and chaos ensues. Even with their differences of human to vampire Maya is able to overcome and make friends for the first time, it is incredibly wholesome. The story and the illustrations are beautiful and perfect for any age. I would like to Thank TBR Tours, Violet Chan Karim, and Netgalley for a copy of the book for review and blog tour purposes.
       






Violet Chan Karim is a comic artist and writer from Boston, Massachusetts. Her love for cartoons, books, and movies as a child led to her pursuing a career in writing and illustration as an adult. She graduated with a BFA in Sequential Art from Savannah College of Art and Design in 2020. Violet’s debut graphic novel, Summer Vamp, will be published in 2024 with Random House Graphic. She also creates the webcomic, Death of a Pop Star, with Webtoon.








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April 07, 2024

The Reappearance of Rachel Price

 


Title - The Reappearance of Rachel Price
Author - Holly Jackson
Release Date -  April 2nd, 2024
Genre - Young Adult Thriller

From the author of the multimillion bestselling A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series and Five Survive comes a new true-crime fueled mystery thriller about a girl determined to uncover the shocking truth about her missing mother while filming a documentary on the unsolved case.

Lights. Camera. Lies.

18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.

But the case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.

Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable, because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And – could she be dangerous? With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother, and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead . . .

From world-renowned author Holly Jackson comes a mind-blowing masterpiece about one girl’s search for the truth, and the terror in finding out who your family really is.

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5

Review

If you have read A Good Girls Guide to Murder and Five Survive by Holly Jackson, you know what a ride you are in for! This was fantastic, I had no idea where it was going the entire time and was completely invested until the very last sentence. We open up to a film crew filming a documentary of the disappearance of Rachel Price. Bel is a stubborn, hard headed main character who is the daughter of Rachel Price. But when Bel runs into Rachel stumbling back into her life, 16 years after they disappeared, everything that Bel knows and loves is completely flipped upside down. The Reappearance of Rachel Price takes a deep dive into the skeletons in the closets of a family, and makes you question who you can trust. 

The conclusion of this story was mind blowing and whiplash inducing. There is no way to guess what was going to happen. I loved every moment of this book, and will always pick up anything that Holly Jackson writes!

       




Holly Jackson is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling series A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder, an international sensation with millions of copies sold worldwide as well as the #1 New York Times bestseller and instant classic, Five Survive, and her forthcoming novel, The Reappearance of Rachel Price. She graduated from the University of Nottingham, where she studied literary linguistics and creative writing, with a master’s degree in English. She enjoys playing video games and watching true-crime documentaries so she can pretend to be a detective. She lives in London.

I would like to Thank TBR Tours, Holly Jackson, and Netgalley for a copy of the book for review and blog tour purposes.
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February 26, 2024

Snowglobe by Soyoung Park



Title - Snowglobe
Author - Soyoung Park
Release Date - February 27th, 2024
Genre - YA Dystopian
Rep - Korean, Asian

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can escape the bitter cold—but this perfect society is hiding dark and dangerous secrets within its frozen heart. A groundbreaking Korean novel translated into English for the first time!
“The Hunger Games meets Squid Game in Soyoung Park’s dystopian thriller Snowglobe” –Entertainment Weekly
Enclosed under a vast dome, Snowglobe is the last place on Earth that’s warm. Outside Snowglobe is a frozen wasteland, and every day, citizens face the icy world to get to their jobs at the power plant, where they produce the energy Snowglobe needs. Their only solace comes in the form of twenty-four-hour television programming streamed directly from the domed city.

The residents of Snowglobe have everything: fame, fortune, and above all, safety from the desolation outside their walls. In exchange, their lives are broadcast to the less fortunate outside, who watch eagerly, hoping for the chance to one day become actors themselves.

Chobahm lives for the time she spends watching the shows produced inside Snowglobe. Her favorite? Goh Around, starring Goh Haeri, Snowglobe’s biggest star—and, it turns out, the key to getting Chobahm her dream life.

Because Haeri is dead, and Chobahm has been chosen to take her place. Only, life inside Snowglobe is nothing like what you see on television. Reality is a lie, and truth seems to be forever out of reach.

Translated for the first time into English from the original Korean, Snowglobe is a groundbreaking exploration of personal identity, and the future of the world as we know it. It is the winner of the Changbi X Kakaopage Young Adult Novel Award.

Content Warning: torture, murder, forced work, socioeconomic inequality

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Top THREE Reasons to Read Snowglobe

1 - Representation - The representation of Korean and Asian cultures, there are not many books you find like this one that will represent that part of the worlds and those groups of people.

2 - Nostalgia - The nostalgia of 2015 dystopian books. If you like me and the rest of the bookworms read and loved the Hunger Games when it first came out, you will love snowglobe. It gives you that nostalgic feeling that sometimes we crave in our books.

3 - Unpredictable - Twists and turns that give you whiplash. It is crazy to think that global warming could put the world in a perpetual winter with temperatures of -50 and below.
       








Soyoung Park majored in communication and media at university. She is a winner of the Original Story Award and the Changbi X Kakaopage Young Adult Novel Award. She is the author of the Snowglobe duology.








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October 15, 2023

The Jade Chronicles

 



The Jade Labyrinth (The Jade Chronicles #3)
By Alanna Mackenzie
Genre: Science Fiction/ Fantasy
Age category: Young Adult
Release Date: 12 September, 2023

Blurb:
A meeting. A maze. A perilous journey back to an Empire on the edge of chaos.

Walter Saltanetska, leader of the Jade Rebellion, is nearly ready to return to the heart of the AI-ruled Empire that has branded him a treasonous fugitive. His mandate is clear: to reprogram the AI Masters before their earth-destroying habits spiral out of control.

First, he must brave gruelling training in a land fraught with danger—rugged mountains haunted by spirits, a parched desert patrolled by watchful drones, and a labyrinthine cave guarded by armed robots. As his physical, mental, and magical abilities are tested by harrowing encounters, Walter must work to resist forces that threaten to destabilize his mission.

The biggest threat he faces is not one he encounters along the course of his journey, but one that originates within him. Walter returns to the Empire’s capital in a mind-altering disguise that proves to be a double-edged sword. Drawing him closer to a soul mate who rekindles his admiration for the AI Masters, it also distances Walter from the human emotions that sparked his desire to join the Rebellion. In his final showdown with the AI Masters, Walter must keep his mind under control, or risk jeopardizing the mission that he and his allies are counting on to reverse a looming tidal wave of destruction.

The thrilling third installment in The Jade Chronicles, The Jade Labyrinth weaves dystopian science-fiction with high fantasy while exploring an essential subject: the perils and promise of artificial intelligence.

Review for The Jade Rebellion 
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Review:
The Jade Rebellion is a wonderfully put together and beautifully written young adult science fiction. I enjoyed being able to read something out of my normal Horror filled TBR and dive into something as brilliant as The Jade Rebellion. We follow our main character through a future run by AI and machine. Human's are now second class citizens on their own planet trying to figure out how to save the people he loves and still live in a world bowing down to new masters. If you enjoy science fiction and dystopian do not miss out reading this trilogy, human vs AI.  

My review for the other two books in this series are on my goodreads!


Earlier books in the series:




The Jade Rebellion: Amazon | The Jade Talisman: Amazon


There is a tour wide giveaway for the blog tour of The Jade Labyrinth. One winner wins
copies of the following three books: The Jade Rebellion, The Jade Talisman and The Jade
Labyrinth.

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Alanna Mackenzie lives in Vancouver, Canada. She holds degrees in History, French studies,
and Law from the University of British Columbia. An environmentalist at heart, she believes
in using the law as a tool for social and environmental change. When she is not pursuing that
passion, she can be found brainstorming the next chapter in her novels, playing Irish fiddle
tunes on the violin, and hiking West Coast trails.










This is my post during the blog tour for The Jade Labyrinth by Alanna Mackenzie. In The
Jade Labyrinth a young rebel leader undertakes a perilous mission to reprogram the artificially
intelligent rulers of a colonial empire, traversing through hostile landscapes and braving
grueling mental and physical challenges.

This blog tour is organized by Lola's Blog Tours and the tour runs from 2 till 15 October. You
can see the tour schedule here: 
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