Abby Petree

YA Book Reviewer/Writer

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Abby Petree has been writing for the Young Folks’ Books section for the past two years, but she’s been overanalyzing everything she reads and watches since day one. Seriously, don’t even bring up Beauty and the Beast. Outside of this website, she teaches 6th grade English in Northern California and works as a freelance writer and social media manager on the side.

Book Review: Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan

Utterly wretched, brutal, and entirely unholy, Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan is just as heartbreaking as its predecessor. This book plumbs the depths of the human soul, and when you resurface, you will not be the same. The monster…

A Beginner’s Guide to Getting Into The Lord of the Rings

To celebrate National Tolkien Reading Day (March 25), which in my opinion deserves its status as a national holiday, we must acknowledge that we would not have the fantasy genre as we know it today without Tolkien’s immortal work. This…

8 Binge-Worthy Classic Novels

With the vast majority of us here in the United States choosing to stay in our homes for the foreseeable future (my state, California, is on complete lockdown), we find ourselves with a lot more free time than we’re used…

What the Women of Harry Potter Taught Me about Being a Badass Woman

Author’s Note: In light of J. K. Rowling’s recent intolerant stance towards the transgender community, I want to make it clear that this post is in no way an endorsement of that stance. Harry Potter is a fandom that belongs…

15 Years of Looking for Alaska: An Ode to Suffering and Forgiveness

Fifteen years later, Looking for Alaska by John Green is just as relevant—or even more so—than the day it was published. I know that I fell in love with it the first time I read it, and every time I’ve…

Library Lovers Month: A Love Letter to Libraries

As a small child who read voraciously, my parents’ wallets just couldn’t keep up with me. A visit to Barnes & Noble to buy a book was a special occasion, usually saved for birthdays or other big milestones. But the…

Book Review: What I Want You to See by Catherine Linka

I started reading What I Want You to See by Catherine Linka expecting a fun, fascinating thriller about the inner working of the art world, and while this book is all of those things, what I was not expecting was…