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I Love You S’more by Auriane Desombre – tour review.
Happy Wednesday! Today I am taking part in my first blog tour with TBR & Beyond Tours for I Love You S’more by Auriane Desombre. Thank you to Random House Children’s for providing a digital ARC via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Synopsis: A sapphic rival-to-lovers story about two counselors who find an unexpected romance during a summer they…
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The Cat Who Saved the Library by Sōsuke Natsukawa, translated by Louise Heal Kawai
Synopsis: Nanami sees nothing wrong with a library and cat combination. But a talking cat is a whole other story. Thirteen-year-old Nanami Kosaki loves reading. The local library is a home from home and books have become her best friends. When Nanami notices books disappearing from the library shelves, she’s particularly curious about a suspicious…
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Briefly Very Beautiful by Roz Dineen
Synopsis: A spellbinding dystopian novel about the lengths one will go to for their children in a world teetering on the edge of apocalypse In a land destabilized by unsafe air, wildfires, floods, viruses, supply shortages, and homegrown terror, Cass is raising three small children by herself in the city. Her husband, Nathaniel, has gone…
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The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Daré
Synopsis: All you have are your words. Adunni is a fourteen-year-old Nigerian girl who knows what she wants: an education. As the only daughter of a broke father, she is a valuable commodity. Removed from school and sold as a third wife to an old man, Adunni’s life amounts to this: four goats, two bags…
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Where Shadows Bloom by Catherine Bakewell
Synopsis: Ofelia has lived her life dreaming of entering Le Château Enchanté—the mysterious court of the gods-blessed King Léo, where the shadow monsters that roam Ofelia’s home never trespass. Lope has lived her life as a knight, defending Ofelia and her home from Shadows even as she dreams of escaping with Ofelia by her side. When the…
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The Great Auk by Tim Birkhead
Synopsis: The life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great Auk Since 1950 more than seventy percent of the world’s seabirds have been lost through human activity. The Great Auk was the first species to go. A goose-sized seabird superbly adapted for underwater flight, their lives were idyllic prior…
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