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City of the Dead

Author Interview: City Spies

  • February 6, 2023
The City Spies series is so much fun and full of adventure and found family! It’s a...
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#Bookstagram

#Bookstagram Recap — January 2023

  • February 1, 2023
It’s time to recap some of my favorite bookstagram posts from January! View this post on...
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Retro

Author Interview: Retro

  • January 23, 2023
I’m excited to share an interview with Sofía Lapuente and Jarrod Shusterman today—a writing duo as well...
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Favorite Shows of 2022

  • January 15, 2023
I’m also a big fan of TV, so I think it’s time to bring more of...
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#Bookstagram

#Bookstagram Recap — December 2022

  • January 10, 2023
It’s time to recap some of my favorite bookstagram posts from December! View this post on...
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2022 in Review

2022 in Review

  • January 5, 2023
Happy New Year! I’m excited to share with you my bookish highlights, reading stats, and favorite...
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December YA Book Releases

  • December 28, 2022
December has almost come to its end, which means the last few YA book of the...
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#Bookstagram Recap — November 2022

  • December 20, 2022
It’s time to recap some of my favorite bookstagram posts from November! View this post on...
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Weekend Aesthetic {50}

  • December 18, 2022
The Weekend Aesthetic is a feature where I post book aesthetics on the weekend. They might be...
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5 Books to Read If You Love The Sex Lives of College Girls

  • December 16, 2022
The season 2 finale of The Sex Lives of College Girls is here! I love Mindy Kaling’s...
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Thank you @macmillan.audio for the gifted book! I Thank you @macmillan.audio for the gifted book!

I loved, loved, loved THERE’S ALWAYS NEXT YEAR! This holiday rom-com is perfect for the new year.

Set on New Year’s Day, we follow cousins Andy and Dominique as they save their small town from gentrification and find love along the way.

I loved the character’s journeys—Andy running around town with the new girl trying to find her stolen car and Dominique returning from New York and reconnecting with his estranged best friend. Both love their hometown dearly and are trying to save their family’s hardware store from being shut down.

Andy is a student journalist, and I loved how articles and transcripts were interspersed into the story. The audio production for these parts was so well done.

Narrators @iamericlockley and @khayafraites were absolutely perfect for this dual POV story! Their voices brought the characters to life, making them feel so real.

✨ About THERE’S ALWAYS NEXT YEAR ✨

Andy was supposed to shed her too-serious student journalist persona and reinvent herself on New Year’s Eve. Instead, she puked on her crush, dropped her phone in a fish tank, and managed to get her car stolen. Now, she only has the first day of the year to stop the gentrification that’s threatening her family’s business, right her wrongs from the night before, and figure out why she feels so drawn to the electric new-girl-next-door. How can Andy find her voice when everything’s being turned upside down?

Dominique is an influencer on the verge of securing a major brand deal that will ensure his future and family legacy. But when he runs into his former best friend, unresolved feelings emerge—and in a small town, there’s nowhere to hide. Not from his cousin, Andy, who has always seen him for his true self, not from his busybody manager, and certainly not from himself. When all the world’s a stage, can Dominique rise to superstardom without leaving behind the ones he loves?

There’s Always Next Year is a dual POV, double love story about what it means to nearly blow your life up, and race to put it back together before your time runs out. And if Andy and Dominique fail? Well, there’s always next year.
What a year! This year has been a busy one full of What a year! This year has been a busy one full of events—both personal and for work.

I attended 28 book events and 1 premiere (for WE WERE LIARS), visited 34 different bookstores, hosted 4 influencer events, and staffed 4 festivals.

And I still was able to read 96 books! I mostly listened to audiobooks, with mystery being my most read genre.

Please enjoy this wrapped, featuring highlights from the year and some of my favorite reads!

What’s a highlight of yours from this past year? Favorite books?

Wishing you a happy 2026! 🥂
I love nothing more than a mystery with romance, a I love nothing more than a mystery with romance, and THE EXECUTIONERS THREE delivered.

The mystery sucked me right in (investigating a serial killer AND a supernatural curse!?!), and the rivals-to-lovers romance had me grinning. I would love to see Freddie (and Theo) solving more mysteries in the future!

With the small town, supernatural mystery and nostalgia-filled time period (this book is set in the ‘90s), Stranger Things fans will want to add this one to their TBR as the show comes to an end.

I listened to the audiobook, and the narrator captured the youthful, YA voice quite well. Thank you @macmillan.audio #MacAudio2025 for the gifted audiobook!

🐦‍⬛ About THE EXECUTIONERS THREE 🐦‍⬛

From bestselling author Susan Dennard comes The Executioners Three, a mystery filled with rivalry, romance, best friends, and a gruesome curse that dates back centuries.

Freddie Gellar didn’t mean to get half the rival high school arrested. She’d simply heard shrieks coming from the woods, so she’d called the cops like any good human would do. How was she supposed to know it was just kids partying?

Except the next day, a body is found. And while the local sheriff might call it suicide, Freddie’s instincts tell her otherwise. So, like the aspiring sleuth (and true X-Files aficionado) she is, Freddie sets out to prove there’s a murderer at large.

But her investigation is quickly disrupted by the rivalry between her school and the school of the partying teens she got arrested. As more pranks unfurl, more bodies also start piling up in the forest.

But it’s the supernatural warning signs around town, each plucked straight from an old forgotten poem called “The Executioners Three,” that worry Freddie the most. She knows the poem and its blood curse can’t be real, but she’s quickly running out of time to prove it.

Because the murderer―or executioners?―knows she’s onto them now, and their next target just might be Freddie.
This post is beyond late, but I met @lynnpainterbo This post is beyond late, but I met @lynnpainterbooks on her FAKE SKATING book tour in October!

I had a blast at this event as so many book club friends attended. Books events are always better with friends ❤️

This event was packed, and Lynn answered audience questions the whole time! It was neat seeing so many actual teens in the crowd who were such big fans of Lynn’s books (especially of Better Than the Movies).

Thanks @bnhuntingtonbeach for hosting!
’Tis the season for holiday romances! ❄️ Have you ’Tis the season for holiday romances! ❄️

Have you read any holiday romances yet this year? What are your favorites?
Thank you to the tagged publishers for the gifted Thank you to the tagged publishers for the gifted books!

Instead of ten to the end, how about five? I tend to gravitate towards graphic novel as the year wraps up, and this year I have these five in my tbr! 

Which would you read first?

🎤 Death of a Pop Star 🎤
Perfect for fans of romantic comedies with a supernatural twist, this debut YA graphic novel follows the unusual journey of up-and-coming singer Sophie Lim after she dies and makes a deal with the Grim Reaper for a second chance at life and pop stardom.

💘 Daybreak 💘
Perfect for fans of cozy LGBTQ+ romance like Heartstopper and Bloom, this slice-of-life rom-com is the sunshiny story of Marcus and Cog falling for each other.

💋 The Kiss Bet 💋
In this adorable coming-of-age comic, Sara Lin has decided now is the time: she’s going to make her first kiss, something special and magical, happen.

✨ Of Swamp & Sea ✨
Lore Olympus meets The Witcher in this thrilling supernatural series! Mia Jay and Laurel Boulton’s wildly popular Webtoon series delivers a stirring tale of monsters, magic, and romance.

🌊 TALL WATER 🌊
A a powerful coming-of-age teen graphic novel that follows one girl’s journey to Sri Lanka to reconnect with her long-lost mother during the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004.
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