"And truthfully, summer crushes make for a surprisingly fun and robusts team activity." Genre: Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 400 Published: April 22, 2021 Rate: 3 ⭐⭐⭐ Blurb From bestselling YA rom-com queen Becky Albertalli (author of Love, Simon) comes a new novel about daring to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight in… Continue reading Blog Tour: Kate In Waiting by Becky Albertalli
Month: April 2021
Review: Bad Love by Maame Blue
"I am not a romantic. I do not know how to tell those kinds of stories, the ones filled with magic and laughter and purple hue." Genre: Fiction, Romance Pages: 340 Published: June 18, 2020 Rate: 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Against a backdrop of enigmatic nights scattered with spoken word poetry in London, Venice, Accra… Continue reading Review: Bad Love by Maame Blue
Blog Tour: The Lore of Prometheus by Graham Austin-King // Review
"Some things we never grow out of, I suppose." Genre: Fantasy, Science Fiction Pages: 287 Published: November 30, 2018 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Blurb John Carver has three rules: Don't drink in the daytime, don't gamble when the luck has gone, and don't talk to the dead people who come to visit. It has been almost… Continue reading Blog Tour: The Lore of Prometheus by Graham Austin-King // Review
Review: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
"The way Archie saw it, country people should die in the country and city people should die in the city." Genre: Domestic Fiction Pages: 542 Published: April 1st, 2000 Rate: 2 ⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War… Continue reading Review: White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Review: The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
"And the young, who love so passionately, have no idea how ugly this world is." Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 308 Published: June 18, 2019 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Roya, a dreamy, idealistic teenager living amid the political upheaval of 1953 Tehran, finds a literary oasis in kindly Mr. Fakhri’s neighborhood stationery shop, stocked with… Continue reading Review: The Stationery Shop of Tehran by Marjan Kamali
Review: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
"What the mouth says has nothing to do with what someone means. It is the face that speaks." Genre: Historical Fiction Pages: 448 Published: 24 September, 2019 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid in Kidane and… Continue reading Review: The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Review: Behold The Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
"People don't want to open their eyes and see the Truth because the illusion suits them." Genre: Fiction Pages: 382 Published: March 15th, 2016 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their… Continue reading Review: Behold The Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue
Blog Tour: What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson // Review
"But I get ahead of myself. I go to the end when, to understand the truth, you have to start at the beginning." Genre: Thriller, Young Adult Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Pages: 368 Published: 8th April, 2021 Publisher: Penguin Goodreads Synopsis Winter. The sky is dark. It is cold enough to crack bones. Jack Morton has… Continue reading Blog Tour: What Beauty There Is by Cory Anderson // Review