"A name can influence a person's behaviour or circumstances. It can play a huge role in who or what your child becomes in life. Your child's name is your child's destiny." Genre: Young Adult Pages: 330 Rate: 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant… Continue reading Review: Buried Beneath The Baobab Tree by Adoabi Tricia Nwaubani
Tag: Young Adult
Blog Tour: Instructions For Dancing by Nicola Yoon // Review
"...the books don't feel like they belong to me anymore." Genre: Young Adult Fiction Pages: 304 Published: June 3rd, 2021 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how… Continue reading Blog Tour: Instructions For Dancing by Nicola Yoon // Review
Review: The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
"Her most striking feature, however, is her eyes deep black and fathomless, as if she's seen the worst of humanity and survived to laugh at it all." Genre: Fantasy Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 432 Published: February 9, 2021 Rate: 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that… Continue reading Review: The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
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
9 Books I Can’t Stop Thinking About // A Wishlist
Reader, ever since Text Book Centre CBD opened I have been there a total of 7 times in a span of 2 weeks! I honestly have no excuse other than I love books. I have been there with friends and also by myself, and one thing that is constant is that I can't stop browsing… Continue reading 9 Books I Can’t Stop Thinking About // A Wishlist
5 On My TBR // Fiction, Fantasy, and More.
"So many books, so little time." Whoever said this was spot on. I get slightly panicky when I look at my unread shelf because when am I going to read all 60 books? And that's just the physical shelf. I tend to get quite overwhelmed when I'm faced with a big to be read (tbr)… Continue reading 5 On My TBR // Fiction, Fantasy, and More.
Review: The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon.
"Some people exist in your life to make it better. Some people exist to make it worse." Genre: Young Adult Fiction Published: 1st November 2016 Pages: 344 Rate: 3.5 ⭐⭐⭐ Goodreads Synopsis Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely… Continue reading Review: The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon.
Review: The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah
"Strong wasn't a word anyone had ever used to describe her. Loyal. maybe. Reserved, definitely." Genre: Historical Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 256 Publisher: Pushkin Press Published: 15th October, 2020 Rate: 4 stars Goodreads Synopsis Twin sisters Hassana and Husseina's home is in ruins after a brutal raid. But this is not the end but the… Continue reading Review: The Deep Blue Between by Ayesha Harruna Attah