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The first look isn’t available so it’s not fair to comment on this book (especially based solely...
This feels like an insipid, vacuous high school writing assignment from a teenager imagining what...
Some thoughts: - I wasn’t wild about the snark and attitude of Nora. I think it was trying to...
First off, these illustrations are awesome. They’re so colourful and sweet. I really like the art...
Maybe I just don’t get it. To me, this reads like someone scraped the web (2010s Tumblr?)...
The writing in this sample is well done and has a hook! I’m not sure what the overall book is...
The illustrations were cute and it’s a straightforward read and concept. The joke at the end...
In this sample, we got all of the first story and a bit of the second. The first was...
Similar to the first look I read in this series last year, this is surprisingly well written for...
This has some promise with the spooky undertones and suggestion of something afoot in the small...
There’s a lot going on in this preview. I liked the Halloween vibe and the idea of monsters...
This felt like it was trying too hard. The Evan character was a pretty insufferable...
3.5 While I’m sure not the target audience for this, it had a really strong hook and I found...
While there wasn’t a lot to go on, with sixteen pages being so very few to form an opinion, this...
I think I’ve already got most of this figured out. If so, it’s really not subtle! I went into...
I wasn’t grabbed by this sample. There was far too much description and not enough context....
Firstly, whose terrible idea was it to use tiny white serif font against a black background?!...
This isn’t the type of thing I’d typically read, and the premise is complicated and strange, but...
Gripping from go! This starts off like a shot and doesn’t slow down. Despite not having read...
3.5 I enjoyed this preview more than I anticipated. Nikki is a compelling character and I’m...
This was, hands down, one of the worst things I have ever read. The writing style takes “try...
This was a refreshing surprise! I really liked the dark academia vibes and the corrupt Ivy...
This is just kinda bizarre. There’s no plot or story, it’s more of a bad poem? The bears and...
This is a gripping first look and doesn’t hang about introducing suspense and action right from...
I’m not loving the toxic family vibe going on here. We’re barely introduced to these characters...
This wasn’t bad! I quite liked that this was written with compound and descriptive sentences....
Guys, am I missing something or is there no excerpt this week? (Or, have I been shadow-banned by...
This may be more of a case of mismatch than necessarily a bad book. YA teenager stuff isn’t my...
This opens with a first chapter full of inaccessible, hard-to-read text that’s only made more...
This opens up with a very hard to decipher letter full of nonsense words and titles. It’s not a...
The concept of this book is unique and therefore quite intriguing. It falls over a bit in...
This was pretty cute. I was worried as the penguins were seemingly disappearing one by and...
The reason I don’t read teenage fiction is primarily because I find teenage characters woefully...
This wasn’t for me. There’s a trend in a lot of books lately that “killing people is okay if...
I have a feeling that the first impression is setting a stage. We’re seeing how life was for...
The illustrations were excellent: colourful, cute, and calm. What stands out about this is...
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