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There’s Something About Sweetie, I Wish You All the Best & The Goodbye Summer | Quick Tho..

May 30, 2019 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review
There’s Something About Sweetie, I Wish You All the Best & The Goodbye Summer | Quick Thoughts on New Releases

REVIEW: There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon A really cute diverse love story with a great message. Sweetie Nair is a fat, high school track star who is a fierce feminist. She’s also a dutiful daughter and super into her Indian culture. Sweetie spends most of her time dealing with her mother’s issues with how she should lose weight, but her confidence shines through the years of fat-shaming. Ashish Patel is dealing with heartbreak. After being dumped by his on-and-off college girlfriend Celia, he’s got no mojo left. He’s worried he’ll never gain back his confidence with basketball, girls, […]

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“You’ve Changed”: Hold Me Like a Breath by Tiffany Schmidt

May 19, 2015 / 3 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“You’ve Changed”: Hold Me Like a Breath by Tiffany Schmidt

Win a copy of Hold Me Like A Breath! Hold Me Like a Breath (Once Upon a Crime Family #1) Author: Tiffany Schmidt (website | twitter) Publisher: Bloomsbury Children’s Source/Format: eARC provided by publisher via Netgalley (thank you!) Publication date: May 19, 2015 (today!) My rating: 2 out of 5 stars. Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | Barnes and Noble | iBooks | IndieBound | The Book Depository  Penelope Landlow has grown up with the knowledge that almost anything can be bought or sold—including body parts. She’s the daughter of one of the three crime families that control the […]

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Halloween Reads: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

October 31, 2014 / 7 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
Halloween Reads: Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

Anna Dressed in Blood Author: Kendare Blake (website | twitter) Publisher: Tor Teen Source: Toronto Public Library Format: Hardcover, 316 pages Publication date: October 17, 2011 My rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars. Buy it:  Indigo.ca | Indiebound | B&N | The Book Depository | Amazon Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father’s mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. They follow legends and local […]

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