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Review: The Women In The Walls by Amy Lukavics

13 September 2025 By fakesteph

Thoughts: The Women in the Walls, much like Daughters Unto Devils, starts by putting characters with a complex family history into a creepy location. Lucy lives in an old Victorian mansion with her father, Aunt, and cousin, Margaret. Her father basically ignores her, and her aunt has raised her since the death of her mother, far […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult Tagged With: family history, scary

Blog Tour: The Women In the Walls by Amy Lukavics

12 September 2025 By fakesteph

Blog Tour: The Women In the Walls by Amy Lukavics

I’m so excited to be a part of this blog tour! I LOVED Daughters Unto Devils when I read it last year and have been psyched for The Women in the Walls since I heard about it. (I just realized I never reviewed DUD, so expect that soon. I book talk it a LOT to my […]

Filed Under: Blog Tours, Looks From Books, Young Adult Tagged With: family history, ghosts, horror

Review: P.S. I Like You by Kasie West

25 July 2025 By fakesteph

Review: P.S. I Like You by Kasie West

Thoughts: This is the second book in a week with characters falling in love anonymously, and, as a whole, I think this trope is incredibly timely and adorable. What I liked about PS I Like You is that the notes were time controlled by being passed in a secret desk space in Chemistry. As someone […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult Tagged With: anonymous notes, hate to love romance, romance

Waiting On Wednesday: P.S. I Like You by Kasie West

13 July 2025 By fakesteph

Waiting On Wednesday: P.S. I Like You by Kasie West

Why I’m excited: Kasie West writes these completely adorable, heart-warming romances. I get excited thinking about reading them, I enjoy them, and then I smile thinking about them. They are the perfect pick-me-up to a bad week. Plus, the cover is super cute and I want it on my shelf.

Filed Under: Waiting On Wednesday, Young Adult

Waiting on Wednesday: The Long Game by Jennifer Lynne Barnes

29 June 2025 By fakesteph

Waiting on Wednesday: The Long Game by Jennifer Lynne Barnes

Why I’m Excited: I loved The Fixer. It was the perfect mix of Scandal and YA Goodness, plus it had a lot of heart. It’s no secret that I love all of Barnes books, and since The Fixer is my favorite so far, I am exceptionally excited for the sequel.

Filed Under: Waiting On Wednesday, Young Adult

What My Students Are Reading: Monster by Walter Dean Myers

12 May 2025 By fakesteph

What My Students Are Reading: Monster by Walter Dean Myers

I have students who get excited when they see this book on my shelf. They will recommend it to other students and got excited when I started reading it. Monster is a non-traditional narrative. The main character writes journals sometimes, but mostly he recounts what is happening to him by writing it out as a […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

21 March 2025 By fakesteph

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith

(Very) Quick Review: This is probably the weirdest book I have ever read, but I loved it. It was a little all over the place, taking different story lines and knitting them together to show some weird cause and effect. The plot was strange sci-fi that built slowly until about halfway through the book when […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult

Waiting on Wednesday: Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry

16 March 2025 By fakesteph

Waiting on Wednesday: Walk the Edge by Katie McGarry

Why I’m Excited: I love all of Katie McGarry’s books. I loved the new characters introduced in book 1 and can’t wait to go back into this world she created and fall in love.

Filed Under: Waiting On Wednesday, Young Adult

Don’t Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout

14 March 2025 By fakesteph

Quick Review: Don’t Look Back is my first foray into Armentrout books. I’ve been a book blogger for a long time, and I know that Amentrout is one of those authors that many of my blogger friends like to fangirl over. If her other books are like Don’t Look Back, then I can understand why. The […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult Tagged With: wealthy families

Review: Hunter by Mercedes Lackey

11 January 2026 By fakesteph

Review: Hunter by Mercedes Lackey

I read this book over the summer and then school started and time got away from me. This will be a quick post because I completely enjoyed the book. What I loved: World Building. The world has basically collapsed and is overrun with every magical creature from every mythology and religion throughout the history of […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult Tagged With: mythology, religion

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Things I like in books: Serial killers, heartbreak, betrayal, lies, boarding schools, twists.


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