Bite-Sized Reviews of Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, Valentina Salazar Is Not a Monster Hunter, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, and I Cannot Draw a Horse

Today, I’m reviewing two MG fantasies, a YA contemp (or recent historical, I guess?) set in Syria, and a picture book. I hope these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! Skandar and the Unicorn Thief is an exciting middle grade fantasy adventure, filled with elemental magic, dangerous unicorns, and backstabbing betrayals. First off, I thought the worldbuilding in this book was really interesting. I loved the concept of the unicorn races […]

Posted October 27, 2022 in Reviews / 3 Comments

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 10/23/22

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): Writing and working on other writing-related stuff. I spent a lot of time this week working on my current writing project and other writing-related […]

Posted October 23, 2022 in Sunday Post / 15 Comments

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 10/16/22

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): Marathon recovery. So, the marathon did a real number on my stomach. I was a bit disappointed since even my twenty-mile practice run […]

Posted October 16, 2022 in Sunday Post / 5 Comments

Explorer Academy: The Forbidden Island by Trudi Trueit – Global Covers Guest Post & Entire Series Giveaway!

Welcome to the Explorer Academy: The Forbidden Island Blog Tour! Today I’m featuring the final book in the Explorer Academy series. I really enjoyed the first book, THE NEBULA SECRET (you can click on the link to check out my review of that one), so when I found out that this tour would include a giveaway of the entire series, I definitely wanted to give you all a chance to win! Plus, I love the guest post […]

Posted October 11, 2022 in Author Guest Post, Giveaways (Ended) / 3 Comments

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 10/9/22

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): We celebrated Noah’s 18th birthday! Like I said last week, Noah turned 18, but we held off on celebrating until Jade and Danielle […]

Posted October 9, 2022 in Sunday Post / 13 Comments

September 2022 Wrap-Up & Best of the Bunch

My Goings-On in September: Here are the things that stand out to me this month: Working at Barnes & Noble! I’ve been working four days a week, and that’s been an adjustment. I’ve had a lot less time for blogging and blog-hopping. I absolutely love the job, though! Marathon training. I run the marathon on Sunday!! (Of course, I woke up yesterday with a cold. Ugh!) Writing things that I still can’t talk about. I […]

Posted October 4, 2022 in Best of the Bunch, Monthly Recap / 13 Comments

Sunday Post: Book Pre-order Campaigns & Giveaways Galore – 10/2/22

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): Finally, I’m getting a Sunday Post up on time! I worked this weekend at Barnes & Noble, but managed to get most of the […]

Posted October 2, 2022 in Sunday Post / 11 Comments

October 2022 Discussion Challenge Link-Up & Giveaway

Welcome to the October monthly link-up for the 2022 Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight! Happy October, everybody! Hope you’re all ready for a spooky Halloween season! The winner of our August discussion challenge giveaway was Mint @ Mint Loves Books! She chose Murder: The Biography. Hope you love it! If you don’t know what this challenge is all about or haven’t signed […]

Posted October 1, 2022 in Book Blog Discussion Challenge, Giveaways (Ended) / 2 Comments

Charlie Hernández & the Golden Dooms by Ryan Calejo: Review & Giveaway

Amazon, Kindle, B&N, iBooks, Kobo, TBD, Bookshop.org Charlie Hernández & the Golden Dooms is the third installment in the series, and it continues the humor, adventure, and heart of the first two books. When a calaca (a Mexican skeleton of sorts) shows up at Charlie’s school and begs him for help, he can’t refuse. And of course, his incredibly intelligent and inquisitive longtime crush Violet is ready to put her sleuthing skills to the test and jumps right in to […]

Posted September 30, 2022 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 4 Comments

September 2022 Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up Link-Up and Giveaway

The Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up is hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight. This is the link-up for our September 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 post where everyone can link up their month-end posts. There are no specific requirements for what needs […]

Posted September 29, 2022 in Monthly Wrap-Up Round-Up / 3 Comments