Review: Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

Home Field Advantage by Dahlia Adler

Published: 7th June 2022 | Publisher: Wednesday Books | Source: Bought
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Amber McCloud’s dream is to become cheer captain at the end of the year, but it’s an extra-tall order to be joyful and spirited when the quarterback of your team has been killed in a car accident. For both the team and the squad, watching Robbie get replaced by newcomer Jack Walsh is brutal. And when it turns out Jack is actually short for Jaclyn, all hell breaks loose.

The players refuse to be led by a girl, the cheerleaders are mad about the changes to their traditions, and the fact that Robbie’s been not only replaced but outshined by a QB who wears a sports bra has more than a few Atherton Alligators in a rage. Amber tries for some semblance of unity, but it quickly becomes clear that she’s only got a future on the squad and with her friends if she helps them take Jack down.

Just one problem: Amber and Jack are falling for each other, and if Amber can’t stand up for Jack and figure out how to get everyone to fall in line, her dream may come at the cost of her heart. From The StoryGraph.

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Trigger/Content Warnings: This book features bullying, masturbation, misogyny, references to death by car accident, reference to drink-driving, reference to abortion and miscarriage, homophobia, multiple references to outing blackmail.

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Spotlight on At Midnight ed. by Dahlia Adler

I don't normally do spotlights for books or bookish news posts anymore, but I had to for this book because I absolutely cannot wait for this book! My excitement is ridiculous, I'm telling you.

Last Thursday, Dahlia Adler - Queen of LGBTQReads, YA author of novels including Cool for the Summer, Just Visiting, and Home Field Advantage coming later this year, and editor of Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe retellings anthologies, That Way Madness Lies and His Hideous Heart respectively - revealed the cover for her latest anthology, At Midnight. A YA anthology of 15 diverse fairy tale retellings, At Midnight is publishing on 22nd November 2022 from Flatiron Books.

At Midnight ed. by Dahlia Adler

Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weaving fresh tales with unexpected reimaginings, At Midnight brings together a diverse group of acclaimed YA writers to breathe new life into a storied tradition.

Fifteen celebrated authors reclaim classic fairy tales for a new generation

• Dahlia Adler, “Rumplestiltskin”


• Tracy Deonn, “The Nightingale”


• H.E. Edgmon, “Snow White”


• Hafsah Faizal, “Little Red Riding Hood”


• Stacey Lee, “The Little Matchstick Girl”


• Roselle Lim, “Hansel and Gretel”


• Darcie Little Badger, “Puss in Boots”


• Malinda Lo, “Frau Trude”


• Alex London, “Cinderella”


• Anna-Marie McLemore, “The Nutcracker”


• Rebecca Podos, “The Robber Bridegroom”


• Rory Power, “Sleeping Beauty”


• Meredith Russo, “The Little Mermaid”


• Gita Trelease, “Fitcher’s Bird”


• And an all-new fairy tale by Melissa Albert.

Once upon a time... 

StoryGraph | Goodreads

You've got to check out Dahlia's Twitter thread where she lists each story's title, and the spins on the original fairy tales we'll be getting in At Midnight. A gender-reimagined, sapphic Rumlplestiltskin from Dahlia herself, a hijabi Little Red Riding Hood from Hafsah Faizal, a trans Snow White from H. E. Edgmon, an Indigenous Puss in Boots from Darcie Little Badger, and many more! And if you're taking part in my Fairy Tale Retellings 2022 Reading Challenge, it counts for the prompt for a collection or anthology of fairy tale retellings, and several others! Honestly, it's going to be incredible! So get pre-ordering!

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Review: Cool For the Summer by Dahlia Adler

Cool For the Summer by Dahlia Adler

Published: 11th May 2021 | Publisher: Wednesday Books | Source: Bought
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Dahlia Adler's Cool for the Summer is a story of self-discovery and new love. It's about the things we want and the things we need. And it's about the people who will let us be who we are.

Lara's had eyes for exactly one person throughout her three years of high school: Chase Harding. He's tall, strong, sweet, a football star, and frankly, stupid hot. Oh, and he's talking to her now. On purpose and everything. Maybe...flirting, even? No, wait, he's definitely flirting, which is pretty much the sum of everything Lara's wanted out of life.

Except she's haunted by a memory. A memory of a confusing, romantic, strangely perfect summer spent with a girl named Jasmine. A memory that becomes a confusing, disorienting present when Jasmine herself walks through the front doors of the school to see Lara and Chase chatting it up in front of the lockers.

Lara has everything she ever wanted: a tight-knit group of friends, a job that borders on cool, and Chase, the boy of her literal dreams. But if she's finally got the guy, why can't she stop thinking about the girl? From The StoryGraph

Trigger/Content Warnings: This book features

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Review: Just Visiting by Dahlia Adler

Just Visiting by Dahlia Adler (eProof) - Reagan Forrester wants out—out of her trailer park, out of reach of her freeloading mother, and out of the shadow of the relationship that made her the pariah of Charytan, Kansas.

Victoria Reyes wants in—in to a fashion design program, in to the arms of a cute guy who doesn't go to Charytan High, and in to a city where she won't stand out for being Mexican.

One thing the polar-opposite best friends do agree on is that wherever they go, they’re staying together. But when they set off on a series of college visits at the start of their senior year, they quickly see that the future doesn’t look quite like they expected. After two years of near-solitude following the betrayal of the ex-boyfriend who broke her heart, Reagan falls hard and fast for a Battlestar Galactica-loving, brilliant smile-sporting pre-med prospective... only to learn she's set herself up for heartbreak all over again. Meanwhile, Victoria runs full-speed toward all the things she thinks she wants… only to realize everything she’s looking for might be in the very place they've sworn to leave.

As both Reagan and Victoria struggle to learn who they are and what they want in the present, they discover just how much they don't know about each other's pasts. And when each learns what the other’s been hiding, they'll have to decide whether their friendship has a future. From Goodreads.

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