Candy Bunny Reader

  Can you believe we are 20 parts in? You can find the previous posts in this series under Navigation above.   I decided to switch things up a little for this post and show what I have over on Instagram...since it's a special one!    I guess in this case, swipe or scroll down...  

  Well, I read Under their Skin and Nightbooks and loved both of them, but I also DNF these two:    Luckily I am currently reading Witchlings, and so far I am loving it!

  I saw this being done over on Instagram so of course I had to join! I tagged some people over on my Instagram, but anyone is free to do this tag. 1. 5 books I thought would be 5 stars, but weren't: This Time It's Real by Ann Liang (3.5 stars) Serafina and the Seven Stars by Robert Beatty (3.5 stars) Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah Johnson (3 stars) Love and Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch (2 stars) Magic for Marigold by LM Montgomery (2 stars)        2. 5 books I thought would be 5 stars, and were! Flip the Script by Lyla Lee  Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan If You Still Recognize Me by Cynthia/Holden So Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger The Mothkeeper by K O'Neill  3. 5 books that unexpectedly turned out to be 5 stars Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Bianca Torre is Afraid of Everything by Justine Winans The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern The Morisaki Bookshop duology by Satoshi Yagisawa Pet by Akwaeke Emezi 4. 5 books on my TBR that I t...

The second book I read for Middle Grade March ! Nightbooks by J.A. White is a middle grade horror novel. The main character, Alex, is a kid who loves all things horror, but has been having a hard time at school because of it. He decides one night to burn all of his "nightbooks" (notebooks that has scary stories he has written) in the boiler room of his apartment complex. But the night he tries to set out to do it, he instead gets lured into a mysterious and magical apartment unit instead. It is owned by a witch named Natacha.  Natacha imprisons Alex and makes him read a scary story to her every night. At the same time, Alex forms a bond (althought they did butt heads at first) with another girl imprisoned in the apartment: a baseball-loving girl named Yasmin. Yasmin's job is to tend to the plants that Natacha makes her essential oils with. Together, Alex and Yasmin figure out a way to escape, and they find out so many more shocking truths about the apartment and Natacha ...

  This book was a part of my Middle Grade March challenge, and it fits the prompt of a book featuring siblings. Well, if you've been on my page long enough, you know how much I love the majority of Margaret Peterson Haddix 's books! This was another great one.  Under Their Skin is about twin fraternal siblings Nick and Eryn, whose mother gets remarried to a guy named Michael. They all move into a new big house to live in. For some reason, Nick and Eryn are not allowed to meet their new stepsiblings. Whenever the twins are out meeting their dad, their stepsiblings Ava and Jackson come to their new house.  Of course, Nick and Eryn get all curious as to why they are forbidden to meet them, so during a snow day when they can't go to school and their mom and stepdad are out of the house, they devise a sneaky plan to go meet them. When they do, they get the shock of their lives of what secrets they're hiding.  I can't get too into details because it will go into spoiler ...

  A must read for Monster High fans (and new ones too)! The first volume of Monster High: New Scaremester is by several different authors. It is told in the style of American comic books. The first chapter is very chill and is about Clawdeen and Toralei's relationship (yes, they are a sapphic couple here!). The second chapter is about a gay couple, Valentine and Spelldon. It's also pretty chill. But with the last few chapters the story takes a darker turn. Many characters, including the Headmistress Bloodgood, mysteriously disappear. Many think it was the fault of normies (humans), and new rules are put in place restricting everyone's activities.  The friendship between our main six ghouls gets strained, and Frankie notices her/their father (he becomes the temporary headmaster) acting stranger than usual.  Well, I'll have to find out in the next volume what happens!  I gave this first comic book 5 stars . I love how this comic incorporated so many characters and lor...