Bite-Sized Reviews of Across the Desert, Our Violent Ends, Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna, and How to Be Ace

Today, I have a MG contemporary, a YA historical fantasy, a MG historical, and a YA graphic novel memoir. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! Across the Desert is a captivating survival story about not giving up on someone who needs you. Jolene feels helpless in her home life—ever since a serious accident, she constantly skates the boundaries of a panic attack while her mom grows more and […]

Posted January 22, 2022 in Reviews / 0 Comments

Tiger Honor by Yoon Ha Lee: Review & Giveaway

Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD Tiger Honor is a mythological sci-fi adventure that explores the bounds of loyalty and the complications of competing interests. The main character Sebin has to decide if their oaths to their family outweigh their dedication to the Space Force. They want to do what’s right, but the real trick is figuring out what the right thing even is. This is a follow-up to Dragon Pearl, and while you don’t necessarily need […]

Posted January 20, 2022 in Current Giveaways, Reviews / 1 Comment

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 1/16/22

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. This past week on FYFA (and in my life): COVID in the house. Jade was supposed to have a routine procedure this week but ended up testing positive for COVID. so we […]

Posted January 16, 2022 in Sunday Post / 24 Comments

Bite-Sized Reviews of Cybils Nominees: Recipe for Disaster, What About Will, The Magical Imperfect, My Magic Wand, and Delicious!

Even though the Cybils finalists have already been announced, I still want to review the remaining books I read as a judge for the Poetry category. (I’ll have one more post after this one.) I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! Recipe for Disaster is actually a mostly-prose novel with some poetry and recipes mixed in (often the poems are also in the form of recipes). The result meant […]

Posted January 12, 2022 in Cybils, Reviews / 3 Comments

In Every Generation by Kendare Blake: Review & Giveaway

Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD In Every Generation made my Buffy-obsessed heart so incredibly happy! I’m not even going to try to review the book without taking the original series into account because, for me, that’s impossible. Do I think that non-Buffy fans will enjoy the book on its own merits? Yes. But you’ll have to read other reviews for that perspective because I loved everything about the show. Anyway, this is my perspective as a fan. […]

Posted January 11, 2022 in Current Giveaways, Reviews / 3 Comments

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 1/9/22

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. This past week on FYFA (and in my life): Blog Redesign. As you may have noticed, I’ve changed the blog design a little bit. I found out that my Tweak Me theme […]

Posted January 9, 2022 in Sunday Post / 30 Comments

Cybils Poetry Finalists! And Bite-Sized Reviews of Everywhere Blue, Snow Birds, You Don’t Have to Be Everything, and Call Me Athena

As my regular readers know, I was a round-one judge for the Cybils Awards in the Poetry category. Well, the finalists have been announced, so I thought I’d share them! You can check out the lists of finalists for the other categories on the Cybils website. Since I hadn’t yet reviewed four of the finalists on the blog, I thought I’d feature those reviews for you now. (I’ve already posted reviews of Me(Moth), Starfish, and […]

Posted January 7, 2022 in Cybils, Reviews / 6 Comments

December 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

My Goings-On in December: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: Holidays! Much of December was spent with family (Jade’s home for Christmas break and the other two kids have off as well). I love breaks because we do stuff like play board games and watch movies and shows together. We also did our annual Escape Room (we had to resort to board game versions last year, so this was extra […]

Posted January 4, 2022 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 17 Comments

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 1/2/22

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer ~ It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on my blog and share news about what’s coming up in the week ahead. This past week on FYFA (and in my life): Happy New Year, everyone! Our NYE was low-key as usual, but we still had fun. We played games (I got Codeword and Mysterium for […]

Posted January 2, 2022 in Sunday Post / 20 Comments

January 2022 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

Welcome to the January monthly link-up for the 2022 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! I can’t quite wrap my head around it being 2022, but here we are, so let the discussing begin! (I swear, I’mma write at least one or two this year. Pinky promise.—This was Shannon who said this, but I totally agree with her.) The winner of our […]

Posted January 1, 2022 in Book Blog Discussion Challenge, Current Giveaways / 5 Comments