Friends with ARCs | Lucky Caller + Seven Deadly Shadows

I’m honestly not sure where Emma Mills now falls on the list of the YA contemporary authors I read, as her most recent release marks the second book of hers that I found just okay (and more on that momentarily). Lucky Caller had a promising premise: Nina takes a radio broadcasting class her senior…

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Abbreviations #100 | Love Her or Lose Her, Vicious + The Crossroads of Should and Must

I wanted to make sure to review the remainder of the novels that I read last December before this month ends, so welcome to this December review wrap-up! I'm going to attempt to keep doing this regularly in 2020, so be on the lookout for more similar posts. But for now, on to the reviews! I was…

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Book Review: Tweet Cute

If you’re a long-time blog reader, you will not at all be surprised to learn that I adored Tweet Cute. (Also, if you’re new, hi, hello, so happy to have you here! I hope you’ll stick around.) Tweet Cute is Emma Lord’s debut novel, a young adult contemporary romantic comedy about two teens (Pepper a…

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Paranormal Book Club: Beautiful Creatures

The Paranormal Book Club is a casual book club I'm in with my friends Rachel , Kristin & DJ , and it came into being because we decided we wanted to revisit (or experience for the first time) a few older YA paranormal books and series together. We read our first book together in 2019 (it was T…

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#Pondathon (+ My Tentative TBR)

Friends, I'm so excited to officially announce my participation in the Pondathon, which is a co-operative and story-driven readathon that's being hosted and run by CW from  The Quiet Pond . I've been excited since CW started sharing teasers for this readathon, and I can't wait to joi…

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Alexa's Best Movies, TV Shows, Music & More of 2019

We're over halfway through the first month of this new year - can you believe it? Anyway, today's post is another look back at 2019, and this time, I'm going to be sharing my favorites in film, television, music and a few other areas today. (I also highlighted my favorite reads of 2019 …

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The Picky Pledge 2020

2020 is the sixth (!) year of The Picky Pledge , a low-key collaboration with Hannah from So Obsessed With where we strive to be intentional when it comes to acquiring and reading books. The underlying aim of this project has always been to curate our TBRs and get them down to a more manageable num…

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Abbreviations #99

In an effort to get back on track with my book reviews and start 2020 with a cleaner slate, I'm sharing as many of them as possible before the year ends! We're going right back to fantasy and sci-fi, with a dash of dystopian, for today's post, which features a bunch of books I was luck…

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Alexa's Best Reads of 2019

I’m so excited to finally share my fifteen book (or series) favorites of 2019! Honestly, the “best of” book lists that pop up online around the end and start of a year are some of my favorite content. It’s always fun to see what other people have loved (and perhaps find some new books to add to my…

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