Candy Bunny Reader

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...

Whoa! Where do I begin with this one? The Witch Who Chases the Sun by Dawn Chen is a high fantasy book set mostly in the country of Inabri (inspired by Great Britain) and partially in another country called Aixauh (inspired by China). The story follows two witches (well, one oracle and one alchemist) named Anne and Chely (real name Cai-Li). Chely has returned to her old lover Anne after finding out that people from the town nearby Anne's castle are starting to disappear. Chely tries to find out what the whole deal is while trying to rekindle her relationship with Anne. We find out that Inabri (where Anne is from) and Aixauh (where Chely is originally from) have had two wars back to back with each other, and both girls appear to have trauma from it all. The story also has a ton of other flashbacks to times before, during, and after the girls were with each other. Other people from their pasts also come into the picture: a close friend of theirs named Cole, a notorious pirate named ...

 A sapphic manga about foodies? Sign me up! Well, I've only read the first volume of She Loves to Cook & She Loves to Eat by Sakaoumi Yuzaki , and so far I love it! It is exactly what it sounds like. A young lady named Nomoto loves to cook food and share pics of her food online, but she always cooks in huge portions and has no one to share it with since she can't eat all of it. That is, until, she finds out one of her neighbors in her apartment complex loves to eat all sorts of foods. The other lady's name is Kasuga. Nomoto and Kasuga end up bonding through all sorts of food, and other experiences, and they seem to be falling for each other.  It's a very chill and slice of life manga, but it is so sweet, funny, and relatable! And all the food they have looks so good. It's mostly Japanese food, too.  I gave this first volume 5 stars . I will read the rest! 

Here I just have what I have over on my Instagram (with changes to the title page). Hopefully I get around to all of these and like all of them!