Month: April 2021

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter: Review & Lynn’s Top Ten Addictions

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter: Review & Lynn’s Top Ten Addictions

Today I’m featuring BETTER THAN THE MOVIES  by Lynn Painter, an adorable YA rom-com that will give you ALL the feels! Read on for my thoughts on the book, and then make sure you also check out Lynn’s list of top ten addictions—her fun writing style shines even in this one small guest post, and I think you’ll see why I love it so much. Sometimes you need a book that just makes you smile. […]

Posted April 29, 2021 in Author Top Ten Lists, Reviews / 11 Comments
April 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up & Giveaway

April 2021 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up & Giveaway

The Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up is hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight. The March giveaway ends soon, so head over there for your last chance to enter! This is the link-up AND giveaway for our April wrap-up posts. If you don’t already know about the Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up, read the information below: Every month, at the end of the month, we’ll put up a monthly wrap-up link-up […]

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 4/25/21

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 4/25/21

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): Tons of yardwork. Lots of you know about how they cut down most of the trees in the preserve behind our house. Well, […]

Posted April 25, 2021 in Sunday Post / 23 Comments
Aru Shah and the City of Gold: Review & Giveaway

Aru Shah and the City of Gold: Review & Giveaway

Amazon, Kindle, Audible, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD Another exciting installment in the Pandava Series! In this book, Aru and her friends are joined by Kara, who Aru discovers is the Sleeper’s other daughter. Family and friendship loyalties are stretched to their limits in this book, as the gang struggles to know who they can count on. Not only do they have to decide if Kara deserves their trust (after all, she was basically raised by the Sleeper), but they’re also dealing with […]

Posted April 21, 2021 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 4 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 4/18/21

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 4/18/21

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): Vaccinations! Our whole family was supposed to get our first COVID vaccination yesterday, but they called us day-of and told us that they […]

Posted April 18, 2021 in Sunday Post / 19 Comments
National Poetry Month Feature: Reviews of Your Heart My Sky & Turtle Under Ice

National Poetry Month Feature: Reviews of Your Heart My Sky & Turtle Under Ice

Since April is National Poetry Month, I thought I’d feature reviews of a couple of recent YA verse novels. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! Your Heart My Sky highlights a time in Cuba’s history that many people don’t know about: “The special period in times of peace.” Sounds wonderful, right? Well, I suppose that’s how the government wanted people to see it, but many people in Cuba […]

Posted April 17, 2021 in Reviews / 3 Comments
Bite-Sized Reviews of The Chance to Fly; You Should See Me In a Crown; Salty, Bitter, Sweet; The Memory Keeper; and The Stars of Whistling Ridge

Bite-Sized Reviews of The Chance to Fly; You Should See Me In a Crown; Salty, Bitter, Sweet; The Memory Keeper; and The Stars of Whistling Ridge

Today I’ve got some bite-sized reviews of some of my recent reads: Two MG contemps, a MG contemporary fantasy, and two YA contemps. I hope these bite-sized reviews are enough to feed your fiction addiction! An utterly empowering book for anyone with a disability, The Chance to Fly follows Nat, a young girl with a spectacular singing voice who has always wanted her chance to shine in the spotlight. The only problem? She’s in a wheelchair, […]

Posted April 14, 2021 in Reviews / 4 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 4/11/21

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 4/11/21

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): My pre-order list was featured on Bookshop.org’s Literature and Fiction homepage this week. They also want to feature me on social media in […]

Posted April 11, 2021 in Sunday Post / 20 Comments
Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 4/4/21

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 4/4/21

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 Easter to all of you who celebrate! My dad is coming over today for the first time in a very long time, so […]

Posted April 4, 2021 in Sunday Post / 10 Comments
April 2021 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

April 2021 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

Welcome to the April monthly link-up for the 2021 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! Hope everyone is having a good 2021 so far. We’ve been enjoying all the discussions you guys have been linking up! The winner of our February discussion challenge giveaway was AJ @ Read All the Things. She got to pick a book involving love, and she chose […]