Son of the Storm by Suyi Davies Okungbowa 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 If belonging to both the highest and lowest castes in the land at the same time taught one anything, it was that when people had to choose where to place a person, they would always choose a spot beneath them. Danso lives in the city of … Continue reading Book Review: Son of the Storm
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Book Review: Soulstar
Soulstar by CL Polk 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Robin Thorpe's days of hiding are at an end when Grace Hensley knocks on her door, and asks for advice. Together, they free the witches trapped inside asylums, and Robin begins to work on creating a freer, just Aeland for all instead of just the elite and favored. But when … Continue reading Book Review: Soulstar
Book Review: The Unbroken
The Unbroken by CL Clark 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 I highly recommend reading Your Tita Kate's review, which is just phenomenal. She was their pet. And she'd be a well-dressed one, but she'd dance all the same. Touraine is a conscript, torn from her home as a child and sent into the army of her enemy. For over … Continue reading Book Review: The Unbroken
Book Review: The Gilded Ones
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Graphic murder (on page), sexual assault (off page), racism, xenophobia Deka is a young woman coming of age in Otera, a kingdom that values the purity of its women. Pure women bleed red, and young women are forbidden to bleed from fifteen until they are proven … Continue reading Book Review: The Gilded Ones
Book Review: Happily Ever Afters
Happily Ever Afters by Elise Bryant 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Tessa has never been the hero of her own story, even though she's written plenty of heroes and happily ever afters in her writing. But she's about to start a new school at a prestigious academy dedicated to cultivating fine minds and she's really nervous. Because she's never … Continue reading Book Review: Happily Ever Afters
Book Review: Loathe at First Sight
Loathe at First Sight by Suzanne Park 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Sexism, Racism, Harassment, Doxxing, Discrimination Melody Joo has made a drastic career change, leaping the opportunity to get into the world of video game producing. But she's not prepared for the level of intersectional racism and misogyny leveled at her from all sides—from her famous … Continue reading Book Review: Loathe at First Sight
Book Review: I’ll Be the One
I'll Be the One by Lyla Lee 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Skye is tired of the fat girl stereotypes. She's tired on the limits imposed upon fat people because of their size. She an incredibly talented singer and dancer, and she's going to prove it to the world (and her mother). When she nails the singing and dancing portions of … Continue reading Book Review: I’ll Be the One
Book Review: Parachutes
Parachutes by Kelly Yang 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Trigger Warning: Grooming, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, Bullying This has a Crazy Rich Asians/Gossip Girl vibe, and I was riding that gossip train and then the hits kept coming and they. did. not. let. up. Definitely a book to read when thinking about girls, their bodies, and their rights, and how these … Continue reading Book Review: Parachutes
The Anti-Racist Starter Pack: Three Mini Reviews
Full disclosure: I am a white woman steeped in all sorts of privilege. I've said horrible shit, and I'm trying to do better and be anti-racist. I have a long road to go and am far from a source of authority. Any and all errors in this post are mine and mine alone. Here are … Continue reading The Anti-Racist Starter Pack: Three Mini Reviews
Book Review: The City We Became
The City We Became by NK Jemisin 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Every city has a soul, and every city's soul has the potential to be born. New York? Has five. But each time a city is born, a dark evil rises to defeat that birth—and over the millennia, more and more cities have failed to be born. New … Continue reading Book Review: The City We Became
The Suspected Bibliophile 