haleylynnthomas22a day ago3 minI Read a Book Written by a K-pop Idol (Shine by Jessica Jung book review)GETTING INTO K-POP AND ABOUT THE BOOK This past fall I started casually listening to K-pop (Korean pop music). I know a lot of people who...
haleylynnthomas22Jan 93 minChasing Lucky by Jenn Bennett (a review)GENRE: YA Contemporary LENGTH: 404 pages PLOT Josie returns to her New England hometown of Beauty after having fled in the night with her...
haleylynnthomas22Jan 25 minNovember to December Reading Wrap-Up and 2020 Yearly Reading Stats (+ 2021 Goals)NEW READS 1. A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown (466 pages) (5 stars) A refugee (Malik) must slay a princess (Karina) to sav...
haleylynnthomas22Dec 26, 20205 minI Ranked Every YA Fantasy I Read in 2020 (Part II - #12-1)12. Incendiary by Zoraida CĂłrdova (rated 4.25 âïž) Renata is a memory thief of the fallen kingdom of Memoria. She was kidnapped as a child...
haleylynnthomas22Dec 20, 20205 minI Ranked Every YA Fantasy I Read in 2020 (Part I - #24-13)24. Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer (rated 2 âïž) This novel is Twilight from Edward's perspective. Twilight is an insanely popular 2005 n...
haleylynnthomas22Dec 15, 20202 minI Have Ovarian Cancer at 28 (a personal blog and poem)On Wednesday December 2nd, 2020 I had what was supposed to be a routine surgery to have an ovarian cyst removed. During my surgery, a tum...
haleylynnthomas22Dec 5, 20203 minMy Final Fantasy of 2020: A Song of Wraiths and Ruin by Roseanne A. Brown (a review)GENRE: YA Fantasy LENGTH: 466 pages PLOT Refugee Malik must kill Princess Karina in order to free his sister from an evil spirit who has ...
haleylynnthomas22Nov 28, 20205 minMy 12 Most Anticipated Book Releases of 2021I just recently started a new job and I hope to adopt a dog soon. These are great things, but they will inevitably mean less time to devo...
haleylynnthomas22Nov 21, 20203 minRaybearer by Jordan Ifueko (a review) (A.K.A. The Best YA Fantasy of 2020)GENRE: YA Fantasy LENGTH: 343 pages PLOT Tarisai has grown up with a distant mother known only as The Lady and a revolving door of servan...
haleylynnthomas22Oct 31, 20206 minAugust-October Reading Wrap-up1. Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko (343 pages) (5 âïž) This YA fantasy follows Tarisai who has been cursed by her mother to inflitrate the cast...
haleylynnthomas22Oct 25, 20204 minMy First Ever One Star Read (Discussing a Problematic Adult Romance Book)For the most part, I reserve this blog for YA content. However, this year Iâve been exploring the world of the adult romance genre. One o...
haleylynnthomas22Oct 21, 20201 minTreasure (a poem)If I could I would hoard your smiles like a dragon collecting treasure. If I could I would bottle up your laughter to listen to on lonely...
haleylynnthomas22Oct 17, 20204 minEnchantĂ©e vs. Splinters of Scarlet: Which Historical Fantasy is Right for You?WHAT ARE ENCHANTĂE AND SPLINTERS OF SCARLET? EnchnatĂ©e by Gita Trelease and Splinters of Scarlet by Emily Bain Murphy are two YA historic...
haleylynnthomas22Oct 10, 20206 minI Matched 12 Spyro Reignited Realms to Books for You to Read đ„ I've never been a huge gamer, but I have very fond childhood memories of playing Spyro the Dragon and the two other games in the original...
haleylynnthomas22Oct 3, 20204 minI Read Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer for the 2000's Nostalgia (a review)WHAT IS MIDNIGHT SUN?/A SHORT HISTORY If you weren't a teenage girl (or her mom) during the height of Twilight's fame then you may be unaw...
haleylynnthomas22Sep 26, 20202 minFALL in Love with Spooky Reads for October đ» đ October, the month of pumpkins, sweaters and Halloween, is almost upon us. I picked out some spooky books to get you in the proper spirit...
haleylynnthomas22Sep 19, 20206 minA Guide to: Jenn Bennett's Contemporaries (Alex, Approximately and More)Jenn Bennett is the author of 4 YA contemporary novels to date. She has a fifth coming out in early November which I do plan to read and ...
haleylynnthomas22Sep 12, 20205 minI Gave Goodreads' Recommendations a Second Chance (Forest of Souls vs. The Kinder Poison)ABOUT THE RECOMMENDATION Forest of Souls by Lori M. Lee is my favorite YA fantasy of 2020 to date. Not too long ago I did a blog reading ...
haleylynnthomas22Sep 5, 20204 minThe City of Brass by S. A. Chakraborty (a review) (Exploring The World of Adult Fantasy)IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT *Before we start the blog I wanted to announce that I now offer proofreading services for blog posts, high school ...
haleylynnthomas22Aug 29, 20203 minBeauty & The Beast Book TagThis is a tag I've wanted to do for some time as I love fairy tales and Belle is a huge book lover like myself. The creator of this tag i...
