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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

Review: Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

4 January 2026 By fakesteph

2015 was a sad and sorry year for my blog. Isla and the Happily Ever After, written by one of my favorite authors, was the first book I read in 2015, and yet, I’m not reviewing it until 2016. As a result, I’m going to bullet my thoughts and make it quick. And let’s go […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult Tagged With: boarding school, paris, romance

Review: Armada by Ernest Cline

10 September 2025 By fakesteph

Quick Thoughts: Armada has a lot of the things I loved about Ready Player One. There is a huge focus on gamers and gamer life, but set in the near future that feels like now, instead of a vastly different, but conceivable, future. There is still a huge focus on 80s pop-culture, but I think it is […]

Filed Under: audiobooks, Review, Young Adult Tagged With: aliens, video games

Liars, Inc. by Paula Stokes

4 June 2025 By fakesteph

  Thoughts: I wanted to love Liars, Inc. The mystery had twists and turns, the characters had drama, and the main character was really easy to like. However, it all didn’t come together for me for two main reasons: One, the mystery itself was great, but played out in this over-the-top melodramatic fashion that I hate. […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult Tagged With: murder, mystery

Review:Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers

28 May 2025 By fakesteph

Review:Cracked Up To Be by Courtney Summers

  Thoughts: I’ve been meaning to read a Courtney Summers book for years now, and Cracked Up To Be made me glad I finally did. This book is the kind of contemporary I adore: edgy, angry, and authentic, with an incredible voice. The narrator’s pain is what kept me flipping pages; she is easy (for me) […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult

All Fall Down by Ally Carter

19 January 2026 By fakesteph

All Fall Down by Ally Carter

Quick thoughts: I’ve been a fan of Ally Carter’s since I first read I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I’d Have to Kill You. I read all of her Heist Society books and was very excited about her new series: Embassy Row. Book one, All Fall Down, introduces us to Grace, adventurous yet troubled, and quite possibly crazy. […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult Tagged With: politics

Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers

2 December 2025 By fakesteph

  Thoughts: The His Fair Assassin series has become one of my favorites. It has made me question my belief that I don’t like historical fiction, plus the first two books both have a ton of heart and plenty of swoon. I was nervous and excited for Mortal Heart because it is about Annith, in […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

7 July 2025 By fakesteph

Thoughts: I thought this was going to be more suspenseful, maybe scandalous, like a literary Gossip Girl. However, We Were Liars by E. Lockhart is something entirely different, and, even though it has been over a month since I read it, I still can’t quite wrap my head (or my heart) around what happened. This book wormed […]

Filed Under: Review, Young Adult Tagged With: heartbreak, tragedy

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


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