Nothing is more important than loyalty. But what if you’ve sworn to protect the one you were born to destroy? RaybearerJordan Ifueko I was hemming and hawing about starting this book (as I find myself wont to do lately), but from the first chapter, Raybearer kept a grip on my attention and imagination as the…
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Book Review: The Downstairs Girl
The Downstairs GirlStacey Lee The one thing I can always trust when it comes to YA historical fiction is a well crafted novel. Stacey Lee absolutely delivered in this heartwarming (yes, heartwarming) southern Gilded Age drama with a Chinese protagonist. “Niche” subject matter is absolutely at play here, but that’s also what makes it good….
Book Review: Get a Life, Chloe Brown
“What did it mean, when a man you made deals with and sent slightly flirtatious emails to licked your ear and held your hand?” Get a Life, Chloe BrownTalia Hibbert I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, and it’s my first read of 2021! I think and hope I’m off to a much better start than 2020,…
Book Review: Wicked Fox
“…But I’ve never heard of a person’s soul falling out.” Quick Review: friends to lovers, #ownvoices, Korean urban fantasy, novelized manga Wicked Fox Kat Cho Do you like slice of life, romance manga, but wish for something a little meatier? Do you like non-eurocentric mythos and #ownvoices works of supernatural YA fiction? Are you a…
Book Review: We Hunt the Flame
“They had lost more than magic that day. Their lands had become untameable beasts. Walls rose between caliphates, and now a dark forest was creeping closer with each passing day.” We Hunt the Flame Hafsah Faizal “Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to…
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