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  • Pretty Little Liars: Flawless Review

    I’m back my pretties with the second book of the Pretty Little Liars series. Like I said before, someone was taking their sweet old time reading and returning it. Anyway, I sped through it and it suspensefully takes off from the cliffhanger Shepard left in the first book.

  • The Dark Artifices Lookback

    Ah yes, Clare’s biggest trilogy to date and admittedly my least favorite. Maybe I’m just getting burnt out, or maybe I’m just not connecting to the characters but I won’t be revisiting this series as much as the other two.

  • Author Highlight: Jen Lancaster

    So here’s a new one, she may not be as well known or high profile as authors I’ve put in the notable section but damn if she isn’t funny. And well known in her own mind. I’ve read only two of her memoirs, Bitter is the New Black and Pretty in Plaid but they give…

  • Book Highlight: K-Pop Revolution

    Stephan Lee delivers a highly satisfying sequel/conclusion to K-Pop Confidential with Revolution as Candace becomes the head of big changes in the K-Pop industry and S.A.Y. Entertainment. Or so she thinks? With the bombshell she dropped on live television, Candace’s life is left in what seems to be ruins but with the widespread support she gains…

  • Kelly Thompson Interview

    1. How did you get started in the comic industry? I actually went to college to study comics, I graduated from The Savannah College of Art & Design with a degree in Sequential Art. I wouldn’t trade that experience for anything, but it’s absolutely not necessary to have that experience in order to break in…

  • Book Highlight: Song of the Lioness

    Ah, The Song of the Lionness. The quartet that helped put Tamora Pierce on the map as premiere fantasy novelist with a feminist hero for the ages. It also founded the expansive Tortall universe. Since the books have been around since the 80s I’m not going to repeat what happens in them. Everyone has probably…

  • Rupi Kaur Poems P2

    I’m back with more of my favorite poems from Rupi Kaur’s second collection, the sun and her flowers. i long/for you/but you long/for someone else/i deny the one/who wants me/cause i want someone else-the human condition (Kaur 39)  i hardened under the last loss. it took something/ human out of me. i used to be…

  • Jennifer Brody Interview

    Jennifer Brody, pen name Vera Strange, the award winning sci-fi and horror author of The 13th Continuum, Deep Spectre 6 and the ongoing Disney Chills series kindly allowed me an interview. Here she talks about her previous career as CEO of Continuum Entertainment Group, her pivot to writing and inspiration for the genres. 1. Starting…

  • Sleepaway Girls Review

    Ah summer camp, the pine trees, the color wars, the bug spray. I never got the appeal but Calonita makes a good case for it with Samantha Montgomery who heads to Whispering Pines for a change of scenery and to get away from being the third wheel to her BFF and boyfriend love bubble. Right…

  • Turn It Up Review

    As one can tell from the very fun cover, Calonita takes a cue from Pitch Perfect in her new novel about three friends trying to achieve a capella championship by bringing the failing Bradley Academy’s all girl acapella group, The Nightingales from rag tag group to passable winners for the November, Turn It Up competition.…