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YOU BELONG HERE BY SARA PHOEBE MILLER & MORGAN BEEM // blog tour book feature: a gorgeous ya graphic novel that’ll punch you in the gut!
I’m on fire just a little bit and I kinda like it? Anyways, very excitied for my stop and the final stop of the tour celebrating You Belong Here! Let’s get into it 🙂 Title: You Belong HereAuthor: Sara Phoebe MillerIllustrator: Morgan BeemPage count: 256Date published: 4 March 2025Genre: Young Adult contemporary 💜 Synopsis: A young adult graphic novel following Essie through heartbreak, star-crossed romance, teen drama, and the question on every high-school senior’s lips: where do I belong? It’s the first day of senior year and seventeen-year-old Essie Rosen is already over it. Her best friend went off to college and barely responds to her texts, her brother’s on the other side of the country in rehab, every conversation with her mom becomes a fight, and her long-term boyfriend, Bruno, feels weirdly distant. Essie’s counting down the days until she can escape her Long Island hometown and join her bff at NYU, where she’s SURE she’ll get into the acting program she’s dreamed about for years. But when Essie gets dumped AND botches her college audition, her entire trajectory changes. Instead of doing community theater, she ends up slumming it in the school play, where she’s cast opposite the…
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WHILE WE’RE YOUNG BY K.L. WALTHER // blog tour spotlight: i NEED to read this ferris bueller inspired ya rom-com!
Hi hello! Today I’m coming at you with yet another book I’m excited about but need to read,,, what else is new. But I’m very happy to be chatting about this cutesy book here as my stop on the blog tour for While We’re Young! Title: While We’re YoungAuthor: K.L. WaltherPage count: 384Date published: 4 March 2025Genre: Young Adult contemporary romance 💗 Synopsis: A whirlwind romance inspired by Ferris Bueller’s Day Off about four friends whose hearts are broken and mended over the course of an epic senior skip day—from the bestselling author of The Summer of Broken Rules! Grace, Isa, and Everett used to be an inseparable trio before their love lives became a tangled mess. For starters, Grace is secretly in love with Everett, who used to go out with Isa before breaking her heart in the infamous Freshman Year Fracture. And, oh yeah, no one knows that Isa has been hanging out with James, Grace’s brother—and if Grace finds out, it could ruin their friendship. With graduation fast approaching, Grace decides an unsanctioned senior skip day in Philadelphia might be just what they need to fix things. All she has to do is convince Isa to help…
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VILEST THINGS BY CHLOE GONG // blog tour book feature: yelling about one of my fave authors and how i need to start this series yesterday!
Indeed I am extremely late but my life is far too chaotic for my own good and here is my personal apology to Chloe Gong. You can yell at me all you want about me not having started this series but I promise you I’ve had a thorough talking to myself already. Anyways, of course, I couldn’t miss posting about this during release week and,,, I’m on the blog tour. Ha there’s that too. I do deserve to be shunned for this but let’s not dwell on the negatives here,,, Anyways, big thanks for joining me and TBR and Beyond Book Tours to celebrate the release of Vilest Things, book two in a trilogy I am terrified but excited to sink my teeth into *insert devil emoji* Title: Vilest ThingsSeries: Flesh and False Gods book #2Author: Chloe GongPage count: 384Date published: 10 September 2024Genre: Adult Fantasy Sci-fi 💫 Synopsis: Calla Tuoleimi has succeeded in the impossible. Despite the odds, she has won San-Er’s bloody games and eliminated King Kasa, her tyrant uncle and the former ruler of Talin. She serves now as royal advisor to Kasa’s adopted son, August Shenzhi, who has risen to the throne. Only Calla knows it…
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CAREFUL WHAT YOU WITCH FOR BY EMMA JACKSON // blog tour book feature: i need this grumpy-sunshine witchy rom-com in my life right now ft moodboard aesthetic <3<3<3
Hello and welcome to my stop on the Careful What You Witch For blog tour, where I am late but excited nonetheless! As always ha! Big thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources for having me on the blog tour. As I touched on, I have not finished this read but just about everything I can see and have read on it (yes those are words) have me SO FREAKING EXCITED so I thought I’d share with you in the meantime xoxo Title: Careful What You Witch ForAuthor: Emma JacksonPage count: 406Date published: 1 August 2024Genre: Adult romantic comedy 🪄 Synopsis: Two complete strangers. One life-changing spell. Becca Ashworth’s family is in trouble and with their magical legacy under threat, it puts their small village of Biddicote at risk too. So going against the witching tenets to summon an ancestor for help seems like a small price to pay to fix the problem…at first. Connor Lynch is the Witches Council’s secret weapon and he’s just been deployed to find out exactly what the Ashworths are up to. But how he ends up posing as Becca’s fake husband at a magical inn in Cornwall as they hunt down a magical artefact is…
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LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT BY JESSICA GILMORE // blog tour book feature: an adorable summer rom-com to add to your tbr ft a moodboard aesthetic <3
Hello and welcome to the final stop on the blog tour of Love At First Sight *insert happy dance* Huge thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources for having me on the blog tour. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to finish this read so instead I thought I’d grace your presence with some other cute things <3<3<3 Title: Love At First SightAuthor: Jessica GilmorePage count: 333Date published: 4 July 2024Genre: Adult romantic comedy Synopsis: She’s in love. Just with the wrong man… Nora is done with dating, but still dreams of finding the one. So when a handsome stranger comes to her rescue one night and vanishes leaving only a business card, it’s like a scene out of a movie… It doesn’t take long for the two to ‘bump’ into each other again, and Nora falls for the perfect-on-paper Gabe. Only a few weeks later, he invites her to Sicily, and she cannot believe her luck! Until Gabe is forced away for work, leaving her alone with his big and warm family in gorgeous Sicily who welcome her with open arms. Everyone but Luca, his older and distrustful brother, who is always around. Soon Nora finds herself on a dreamy, romantic…
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FEBRUARY RECAP // the month of love aka teensy bit of reading, some new books & getting a job in publishing!!!
Look at me! I’M ON TIME FOLKS OMG THIS IS CRAZY. Be in shock with me. Imma not beat around the bush anymore and just dive right in!!! — How To End A Love Story by Yulin Kuang {★★★★½}: I think you’ll be seeing a post closer to release date from me so I’ll keep it short. This book is freaking hella sad and a lot but very romantic and I have no words. Emily Henry loves and we need nothing else. Huge thanks to Hodder & Stoughton UK for the eARC via Netgalley! Click right over here for the GR review <3<3<3 I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang {★★★½☆}: I was lucky enough to join the blog tour for this one so I’ll send you over there for the full review. But if you’re looking for a stellar YA academic rivals to lovers contemporary romance, then she’s got you. Tysm to the author, Scholastic Press and Colored Pages Tours for the eARC via Edelweiss!!! The Someday Daughter by Ellen O’Clover {★★★★★}: You’ll also be seeing a full review from me on this one because I need to GUSH. Ellen is an absolute force to be reckoned…
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INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR ALEXANDRA CHRISTO // blog tour: chatting about The Night Hunt aka the latest ya romantasy release which i cannot wait to read!!!
Eeep I am so excited about today’s post and I hope you are too because look who’s here?!?!?! Screaming inside Big thanks to Colored Pages for having me on the blog tour for The Night Hunt and to Alexandra Christo for being here today. Let’s dive right in! Title: The Night HuntAuthor: Alexandra ChristoPage count: 384Date published: 10 October 2023Genre: Young Adult fantasy 🖤 Synopsis: Atia is a monster who feeds on fear. As the last of her kind, she hides in the shadows of the world to escape the wrath of the unpredictable Gods. Silas is a Herald, carrying messages and ferrying the dead as punishment for a past he can’t remember. Stripped of his true name, he yearns to recover his identity. Atia would never dream of allying with someone like him, but when she breaks a sacred law and the Gods send monsters to hunt her, Silas offers an irresistible deal: he’ll help avenge her family and take on the Gods who now hunt her, if she helps him break his curse and restore his humanity. All they need to do is kill three powerful creatures: a vampire, a banshee, and one of the very Gods who…
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BY ANY OTHER NAME BY ERIN COTTER // blog tour book feature: happy release day to this queer historical romance i need injected into my veins!!!
Gosh dang it am I excited about today’s post!!!! Welcome to the final stop on the By Any Other Name Book Tour, which is also the release day (!!!) for this gem. A huge thanks to Coloured Pages Tours for having me! Title: By Any Other NameAuthor: Erin CotterPage count: 464Date published: 10 October 2023Genre: Young Adult historical fantasy romance 🗡️ Synopsis: A down-on-his-luck actor and an English lord reluctantly team up to solve the murder of Christopher Marlowe in this Shakespearean-era young adult romp perfect for fans of F.T. Lukens and Mackenzi Lee. London, 1593. Sixteen-year-old Will Hughes is busy working on Shakespeare’s stage, stuffing his corsets with straw and pretending to be someone else. Offstage, he’s playing a part, too. The son of traitors, Will is desperate to keep his identity secret—or risk being killed in the bloody queen’s imperial schemes. All he wants is to lay low until he earns enough coin to return to his family. But when his mentor, the famous playwright Christopher Marlowe, is murdered under mysterious circumstances, Will’s plans are hopelessly dashed. What’s worse, Marlowe was a spy for the queen, tasked with stalking a killer rumored to be part of an elusive…
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THE SEVEN YEAR SLIP BY ASHLEY POSTON // blog tour book review: happy release day to this banger of a time travel romance that blew it out of this decade!!!
Today is a special day my friends. Wanna know why? Because this scrumptious little book is out TODAY and ugh I’m so excited to talk about it! Welcome to the first stop on The Seven Year Slip blog tour <3<3<3 Title: The Seven Year SlipAuthor: Ashley PostonPage count: 352Date published: 27 July 2023Genre: Adult contemporary romance 🍋 Synopsis: Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it. So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: stay busy, work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it. And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man…
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SOMETHING MORE BY JACKIE KHALILIEH // blog tour book feature: adorable debut ya contemporary ft. all the angst, brilliant autism representation & aesthetic
Eeeep so so excited to be telling you all about this lovely gem of a book today! Big thanks to Coloured Pages Tours for having me on to celebrate the release of Something More by Jackie Khalileh! A bit late with my tour stop but I didn’t want to miss out on telling about this adorable book, so let’s get into it! Title: Something MoreAuthor: Jackie KhaliliehPage count: 336Date published: 6 June 2023Genre: Young Adult contemporary romance ✎ Synopsis: A contemporary teen romance novel featuring a Palestinian-Canadian girl trying to hide her autism diagnosis while navigating her first year of high school, for fans of Jenny Han and Samira Ahmed. Fifteen-year-old Jessie, a quirky loner obsessed with the nineties, is diagnosed as autistic just weeks before starting high school. Determined to make a fresh start and keep her diagnosis a secret, Jessie creates a list of goals that range from acquiring two distinct eyebrows to getting a magical first kiss and landing a spot in the school play. Within the halls of Holy Trinity High, she finds a world where things are no longer black and white and quickly learns that living in color is much more fun. But Jessie…
