Miss Meteor is the first book I’ve read by either of the co-authors. I’ve heard good things about Anna-Marie McLemore and Tehlor Kay Mejia’s other books, but there was something about Miss Meteor that drew me in.
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Welcome back to another edition of mini reviews! Today I’m featuring some recent reads in the romance genre: Make Up Break Up and The Ex Talk:
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Welcome back to Watching Roundup: a monthly feature where I babble about all the shows I’m trying to keep up with!
In May, I finally started catching up on a popular show and saw the return of an old favourite:
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Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday!
I’m taking advantage of this week’s freebie to repeat a recent topic that I missed: Books with Nature on the Cover! I fully intended to post something for this theme, but I didn’t get my list ready in time. But hey! Better late than never.
Without further ado, here are my top ten nature-based covers:
Continue reading “Top Ten Tuesday #8: Freebie!”Hello readers! I’m back with some of my new mini reviews. Today I’ll be talking about two of my most recent YA fantasy reads: The Camelot Betrayal and Poisoned.
Continue reading “Mini Reviews: YA Fantasy”Welcome back to Top Ten Tuesday! It’s been a while since I participated in this meme but I thought, hey, why not jump back in? It’s fun!
There’s something fun about books with long titles. They often have beautiful typography on their covers, which is always a nice touch.
Read on to see my top ten!
Continue reading “Top Ten Tuesday #7: Book Titles That Are Complete Sentences”Long time, no see! Sorry readers 😦
Revising my novel has taken up a lot of my time over the last two months. I’ve still been reading, but there hasn’t been as much time to write full reviews.
So I’ve come up with a solution: mini reviews!
I’m planning to divide these reviews up by genre. Today I’ll be starting with my recent reads in YA contemporary:
Continue reading “Mini Reviews: Recent YA Contemporary Reads”Welcome back to Watching Roundup: a monthly feature where I talk about all my latest television and movie viewings!
April was a busy month for me: I was revising my novel, so I didn’t have as much time for writing reviews. I still managed to watch some interesting things though!
Continue reading “Watching Roundup: April 2021”Welcome back to Watching Roundup: a monthly feature where I talk about all the TV shows and movies I watched in the previous month!
March was a month of mostly enjoyable viewing: I loaded up on superhero stories, comedies, and book-to-film adaptations.
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(Contains mild spoilers for the book version of Shadow and Bone. All opinions are my own. Some of them might be unpopular opinions.)
It’s happening, readers: a beloved YA series is getting the screen treatment!
I’ve been around long enough to have witnessed many books get the page to screen treatment with varying levels of success. The Martian and The Hunger Games were fairly faithful renditions. Other things – Percy Jackson, City of Bones, etc. – were less successful. There are also adaptations that changed things – think of Love Simon or the recently released Moxie – that stayed true to the intent of the original work, even if the final product was different. In short: adaptations are a risky endeavour. Deviate too much, you risk pissing off the fans. But there’s just as much risk in not doing enough. It’s a slippery slope!
At the end of the day, what matters most is that the people in charge are respectful of the source material.
This brings us back to Shadow and Bone.
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