Fantastic articles. Clean writing and a fabulous cover and interview.
This magazine is family friendly and the books inside will make you want to add them to your tbr list.

I enjoy everyone of these each month! Great way to learn about what's going on in the book world! Thank you netgalley for the free arc in exchange for an honest review!

I absolutely loved this magazine for children and adults to learn more about books and authors. I would love to know where to buy the next copy.

Unexceptional

I downloaded the Julie Chen issue of this magazine as a review freebie. It struck me as mostly unremarkable, and while it was worth looking through as a freebie I would not be inclined to buy it. It consists mostly of promotional material for upcoming books and/or authors.

You get a few author interviews. You have a paid "advertorial", which looks like an article. There are full page photos of celebrity authors, like Chen. Many of the pages are just ads for books, with cover shots and blurbs. There is a fall reading list, but it appears to list just paid-advertisement books.The most interesting item was a review of a Netflix movie based on a book.

I had hoped for some excerpts or at least brief new book samples, but there is nothing like that, (except for some small panels from illustrated books). There's nothing wrong with this, it's just that most promotional collections have more content. That said, this might be helpful in suggesting what might otherwise be overlooked books. (For example, I recently read an ARC of "Sir Simon: Super Scarer", and it is a wildly entertaining book that I fear won't get the attention it deserves. That book is featured in one of the articles.)

So, interesting enough as a promotional handout, but that seemed to be about all.