🌟🌟🌟🌟💫An immersive look at a troubled teen, seemingly tough but inwardly fragile, an ostracized social pariah, and her turbulent journey to self-awareness and acceptance. Based in Rochester NY, amongst the incredibly competitive senior-year students of a crowded authoritarian high school, JoLynn Kirby, the first person narrator of this book, is…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A fun read - a fantasy-romance-science fiction and perhaps even western mashup - and one that will appeal to both YA and adult lovers of imaginative fiction. Vega, our first person POV narrator, is a seventeen-year-old girl who has spent her entire life living in an isolated and remote…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 Richly populated with fae, pixies, sprites, dryads and other magical beings, this Teen/YA fantasy is the story of our seventeen-year-old heroine, Croi, as she journeys into self-discovery, traveling from the predictable safety of her life in Humanworld to the beauties, mysteries and dangers she will encounter in the unknown…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 A quick and interesting read, this story has the feel of a longish short-story - a fable of sorts - telling the tale of a complicated family, steeped in love, sacrifice, loss and ultimately redemption, but of a form as unexpected as it is long and exceptionally overdue. Told…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Packed with sardonic humor (Note to reader: watch where you read this book. I found myself laughing out loud in several places) pop culture (many of which were obscure to this reader), faux fur, and pink velvet, this ode to growing up a literary-wannabe in the exploding…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 A howling wind, a raging blizzard. Somewhere in the depths of the US Midwest, one day’s travel out of Chicago. Five teens, led by our narrator and main protagonist, Nell, are enroute to a state theatre championship, along with their drama teacher, when they are forced to…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Letters from Afganistan” is a YA book bursting with social consience, a Call to Action and most of all, a giant heart. Written as the first English story constructed by a native Italian speaking author, the book is intended to inspire, educate, and reach deep into the…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] My stop today on the @rrbooktours #rrbooktours blogtour for the #YA release of #burningbright - Book two in the rise and fall of Dani Truehart Series, by @author.michelekwas When we last met Dani Truehart, in the pages of “Rising Star”, Dani was 15 years old and a…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “Have you ever known an evil person to drink herbal tea?” That is just one of the interesting and hilarious questions our hero, momentarily known as Wendy Lockheart, a seventeen year old teen assassin, pauses to ponder as her crazy fireball of a life bursts its way…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] What a hoot! A crazy cool ride through the fantastical world of Joshua N’Gon, a fifteen-year-old boy-man with mysterious princely origins, whose strange and wonderful powers hint at an epic purpose and mission yet to be realized. A wonderful mash up of Sci-fi (think the unbridled tech…