I'm extremely excited to introduce my special guest today. She holds a special place in my heart. I remember the first time that I held her book in my hands, I had this thought. "Finally, someone wrote a book that I've been dying to read." I read it. And I loved it so much that I bought everything else that this author's ever written. I love her ability to combine dark writing with humor and suspense. Kicking off this week's Trick-or-Treat Chronicles is the amazing Tessa Gratton, one of the most fantastic dark authors around! She's the author of Blood Magic and[...]
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YA lit
0 It took me around an hour to even be able to write this blog post. I kept sporadically breaking out in dance and song. Yep, you could say that I'm excited. I swear, I couldn't even control my limbs. And now, I can barely contain my fingertips to write this post. I'm a HUGE Alice in Wonderland fan. I love the imagination, the story, and the fact that a book published in 1865 is still loved, cherished, and relevant today. Imagine my excitement when I got a message from Leap Books. In 2015, they're celebrating its 150th anniversary in a BIG WAY. Leap Books is putti[...]
It's amazing to me, the success that Kristen Strassel has had since the initial publication of her debut novel Because the Night. Because the Night was published in November 2013 and it has caught on like wildfire. In such a short period of time, she has received almost 100 collective 4 and 5 ratings on her book. People have nothing but amazing things to say about it, such as this small snipper from the review of Jillian Marques on Goodreads, "Hmmm... Sex, drugs and rock n' roll. Need more? Ok, throw in some vampires. How about some mystery? Murder? Cliffhangers?[...]