Looking for every 2020 YA book release? You’re in luck!
If you were looking for every YA release set for 2018, this is your lucky day.
‘Empire of Gold’ is pure gold, I’m sorry | A Spoiler-Free Review
Note: While I’m going to avoid spoilers for The Empire of Gold, it is the third in a series and I may mention significant plot […]
Q&A With Nathan Pyle, Creator of Strange Planet Comics
Strange Planet, a webcomic that has taken Instagram by storm, is now a book! Nathan Pyle, creator of Strange Planet, has accumulated over 4.7 million […]
Q&A With Sara Faring, #OwnVoices Latinx Author of ‘Black-Mirror’-Like YA Debut
Q: What is the easiest way to brighten your day? Feed me. Q: What is your strangest hobby or interest? I knew someone who collected […]
‘The Ten Thousand Doors of January’ Writes A Door Into My Soul | A Spoiler-Free Review
I read a lot of books. Often, they’re in the same genre, since I have my preferences. Some are good, some are great, some are […]
‘American Royals’: What If America Had a Royal Family? | A Spoiler-Free Review
What if George Washington had become a king, rather than a president? Katherine McGee built her new alternate history novel, American Royals, on this idea. […]
‘There Will Come A Darkness’ is The Light of My Life | A Spoiler-Free Review
There Will Come A Darkness has an awesome title and an absolutely breathtaking cover, but there is another reason it has garnered so much attention […]
Looking for every 2019 YA book release? You’re in luck!
Megan, the writer of the Book Birds blog, did some bookish community service for us — again! She created a complete list of YA book […]
‘Spin the Dawn’ combines Project Runway and Mulan | A Spoiler-Free Review
★★★☆☆ // ★★★★☆ 3.5 Stars (Rounds up on Goodreads) The only reason this isn’t a solid 4-star read for me is that the pacing, I felt, […]
Please Don’t Sleep on ‘Steel Crow Saga’ | A Spoiler-Free Review
I love the way he writes all of his characters, the way each one feels unique. They aren’t just pieces in different places on his storyboard; they are unique, individual characters who drive their stories in different ways.
Bookish Buys from BookCon (Without the Lines!)
So you didn’t go to BookCon. Or you did, but you didn’t do all of the shopping you wanted to. No worries, we’ve got you. […]
BookCon 2019: Every Pre-Planned ARC Drop, Listed For You
Are you wondering how to create your schedule for BookCon without knowing when your most anticipated ARCs are dropping? Are you trying to plan when […]
Q&A with Caitlin Starling, author of ‘The Luminous Dead’
Author Caitlin Starling was kind enough to sit for an interview with Fictionist after her book The Luminous Dead was published. This standalone sci-fi/horror novel […]
‘The Luminous Dead’ Lights Up My Life | A Spoiler-Free Review
★★★★★ When I picked up The Luminous Dead, I had just moved to a new apartment. I was trying to balance work, exercise, cooking, cleaning, […]
10 Books to Read by Muslim #OwnVoices Authors
Enjoy this list of books by Muslim authors. Support them as they do what they love — write — in a world that only recently […]
‘Wicked Saints’ is Everything I Needed | A Spoiler-Free Review
I was somehow deeply invested. I needed to know this story, these characters, this setting.