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Reviews

Review: Very Bad People by Kit Frick

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The three Bolan sisters look like they came from a fairy tale. With their freckled-faces and long auburn hair, they could easily come across as illustrations from your favorite stories. Except, their life is no fairy tale. Everyone in the small Upstate New York town knows what their mom did years ago. One day she picked all the girls up from school early and drove into a lake. The girls survived, she didn’t.

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Lists

Kara Thomas’s YA Books Ranked

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Kara Thomas is one of our favorite authors. She writes exciting, chilling and gripping YA mysteries/thrillers. We’ve ranked her one series and four standalone books below. We’ll continue to update this post when Thomas releases new books. If you want to learn more about Thomas, check out our interview with her from summer 2021.

1. The Prep School Confidential series

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The Prep School Confidential series is reminiscent of Gossip Girl but with murder. It’s easily our favorite from Thomas so far. Anne Dowling loves her privileged life in NYC— until she burns part of her school down and gets shipped off to a preppy boarding school in New England. Right after she arrives, her roommate is murdered and Anne finds herself pursuing the mystery.

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Review: Blame It on the Mistletoe by Beth Garrod

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*We received this book in exchange for an honest review.*

Elle is a social media influencer in New Jersey and wants nothing more than to build her following. Holly is a Christmas lover, but after an embarrassing run in with her ex-boyfriend, she’ll do anything to escape her small town outside of London for the holidays.

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Book Review: The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo

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Book Summary

Lila Castro loves her small town in Upstate New York that is obsessed with everything Christmas. One of the most famous holiday movies was filmed there and now every year tourists flock to the beautiful town. Lila also works at the Bookworm Inn, where scenes of the movie were filmed. Everything about this holiday season seemed perfect, until Lila’s boss tells her that she can’t work more hours over winter break because there’s a new seasonal worker joining the team.

Enter Teddy Veracruz: the owner’s nephew and a complete pain in the ass. He doesn’t follow directions and refuses to follow Lila’s checklist. One afternoon, Lila and Teddy switch phones, forcing them to get to know the other person instead of making rash judgements. These two will have to see if they can get along and maybe, just maybe, find love along the way.

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Book Club

November 2021 Book Club: The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo

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The Book

The Holiday Switch by Tif Marcelo released October 5, 2021.

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Review: They’ll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman

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We picked They’ll Never Catch Us for our October Book Club because of its spooky vibes. Plus, we enjoyed Goodman’s debut YA book They Wish They Were Us last year.

What made this discussion so fun was that two members of our book club did cross country in high school and college!

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October 2021 Book Club: They’ll Never Catch Us by Jessica Goodman

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The Book

They’ll Never Catch Us released on July 27, 2021.

Why did we pick this book?

It’s October, aka Halloween month! We searched our TBR for the perfect mystery/thriller book that would keep us guessing until the very end. As you can tell from the cover, this book promises to be dark and full of suspense. Email us at imallbookedupya@gmail.com to join us Sunday October 17th for book club!

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Lists, Reviews

Emma Mills’s Books Ranked

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First, we’d like to announce some exciting news. *Drum roll please*

We’ve been featured on Feedspot’s Top 100 Young Adult Book Blogs! 

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We are so honored to be ranked 11th on this list with some of our favorite YA book blogs. Check out the full list here! 

Okay, now on to the review! 

If you’re a regular reader of our blog, then you know that we love YA contemporaries. We recently took a deep dive into the black hole that is Goodreads and found Emma Mills’s latest release, Lucky Caller. Now, of course we couldn’t just read one of her books….so during quarantine we embarked on a mission to read all five of her publications. Our job? Do the recon on the books so that you, our lovely readers, do not have to get your hands dirty scrolling through pages of Goodreads reviews. 

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Interviews

Author Interview: Lisa Maxwell

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We had the chance to interview the fabulous Lisa Maxwell. She is the New York Times Best-Selling author of The Last Magician series. If you haven’t read this series, we highly recommend it. It’s full of both magic and history. Thanks, Lisa! We can’t wait to read more of your books!

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1.) When did you first realize you wanted to be a writer? 

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