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 The Fury mystery/thriller  set on greek island unreliable narrator  So Let Them Burn YA fantasy  sapphic rep dragons !! The Search Party mystery/thriller dual timeline POV whodunit  lots of characters Midnight Ruin sixth in dark Olympus series spicy greek mythology retelling!

  Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce Genre: Young Adult Romance  Publishing Date: January 9, 2024   Synopsis: When it comes to romance, sometimes it doesn’t hurt to play games. A fun YA romcom full of fake dating hijinks! Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school’s spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she’s grounded and stuck with the worst punishment -  spending her after-school hours working at her dad’s game shop. Riley can’t waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan—a nerdy teen employee—to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she’ll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous. But Riley didn’t realize that meant joining Nathan’s Dungeons & Dragons game…or that role playing would be so fun. Soon, Riley starts to think that flirting with Nathan doesn’t require as much acting as she would’ve thought… ...

    The Other Lola Sequel to Missing Clarissa YA Mystery/Thriller  5/5 stars Pub Date - March 12th 2024 Review - I enjoyed The Other Lola even more than Missing Clarissa. We are introduced to new characters, one of which being Mattie, who uses they/them pronouns. This had even more queer rep than the first, and I loved seeing Cam's relationship with her girlfriend also grow. The mystery in this one felt more unique too! Missing Clarissa had reminded me more of other YA mysteries, but both are great if you just enjoy the genre. I would love to see a third book with them set in New York!  Synopsis -  What happens when the people you love the most are the people you can trust the least? In the months after Cam and Blair broke their small hometown’s legendary missing-girl story and catapulted to accidental fame, they vowed never to do it again. No more mysteries, no more podcasts, and no more sticking their heads where they don’t belong. Until Mattie Brosillard, a f...

  Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard 4/5 stars  Scifi Synopsis - If you liked Dune, Atlantis Gene, Foundation, Ender's Game, and Starship Troopers, you'll love Battlefield Earth. 1977. NASA launches the space probe  Voyager 1 . One of its missions: answer the question—is there intelligent life beyond our planet?   Fast-forward a thousand years. Question answered … by the Psychlos, an alien race who’ve proven just how terrifying intelligent life can be. Tracing Voyager 1 back to its origins, the Psychlos have scorched the Earth, all but wiped out the human race and stripped the planet of natural resources. Now, in the year 3000, humankind faces total extinction. But in this post-apocalyptic world, as a new millennium arises, so too has the courageous Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. A natural-born leader, Jonnie manages to raise an army out of the remnants of humanity, knowing that against the seemingly invincible aliens, the uprising will require a daring strike on an epic sca...

  Check and Mate "Ali Hazelwood is a known master of deeply clever, ridiculously satisfying 'JUST KISS ALREADY!!' slow burns, and this book is all of that and so much more. Readers are going to ship Mallory and Nolan hard enough to break their sails. If you’re not ready to swoon and gasp and cackle in front of strangers, read this book in public at your own risk." —Emma Lord, New York Times bestselling author of When You Get the Chance Mallory Greenleaf is done with chess. Every move counts nowadays; after the sport led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory’s focus is on her mom, her sisters, and the dead-end job that keeps the lights on. That is, until she begrudgingly agrees to play in one last charity tournament and inadvertently wipes the board with notorious “Kingkiller” Nolan Sawyer: current world champion and reigning Bad Boy of chess. Nolan’s loss to an unknown rook-ie shocks everyone. What’s even more confusing? His desire to cross paw...

  Book Info: Sir Callie and the Dragon’s Roost by Esme Symes-Smith Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy Publishing Date: November 7, 2023   Synopsis: The battle is won, but the war is far from over. In this thrilling sequel, a twelve-year-old nonbinary hopeful knight fights for the heart of their kingdom in a magical medieval world filled with dragons, shape-shifters, and witches. Thanks to Callie and their friends, Helston seems to be changing for the better: Boys are allowed to explore their magic, and girls are permitted to train as warriors. Callie is an official Helston page, Willow in on track to become king, and Elowen and Edwyn are finally safe and free of their father. Everything is…perfect. Except it isn’t. Not in Helston, where every step forward is accompanied by a storm of opposition. Even Queen Ewella and Sir Nick are struggling against the wave of fear and anti-magical sentiment growing daily, while the encroaching threat from across the bridge looms. Callie isn’t foolis...

  Book Info: Eight Dates and Nights by Betsy Aldredge Genre: Young Adult Contemporary Publishing Date: October 3, 2023   Synopsis: Two teens with two very different ideas of how to spend Hanukkah learn to work together to save the last Jewish remnant in small town Texas in this cozy holiday romance! New Yorker Hannah Levin is allergic to exactly two things, horses and tinsel. Unfortunately, she’s surrounded by both this Hanukkah when, thanks to a freak snow storm, she’s stranded in the small town of Rosenberg, Texas, visiting her grandmother, who she hasn’t seen in years due to family drama. Super lonely, missing latkes and reliable wi-fi, she follows the scent of fried potatoes and wanders into an old deli where she meets the only other Jewish teen in town, Noah, who happens to be equal parts adorable and full of annoying, over the top Hanukkah spirit that he’s determined to share with Hannah, one ugly, itchy Hanukkah sweater at a time. She makes him a deal, she’ll help him s...