This is the kind of book that proves why reading debut authors’ work is awesome. In If We Were a Movie by Zakiya N. Jamal, Rochelle has one goal for the upcoming senior year: to become valedictorian and get into Wharton. If that involves beating her academic rival, Amira Rodriguez, well, that’s just a perk. …
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Book Review | Great Big Beautiful Life
In Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry, Alice Scott is a writer determined to find her big break, and she thinks she’s found it when she tracks down Margaret Ives, heiress to a famous family and who famously vanished from the public eye two decades ago. But when Alice arrives in the tiny Georgia …
Book Review | A Drop of Corruption
A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett, the sequel to The Tainted Cup, follows Ana Dolabra and Dinios Kol on another mysterious case on the outskirts of the Empire. This time, they’re in Yarrowdale, a territory at the very edge of the Empire’s influence, and a contentious territory at that. The citizens are skeptical …
Book Review | Malinalli
In Malinalli by Veronica Chapa, we follow the titular main character through the events of her life, as she goes from child to adolescent to woman. She learns early on that she has an aptitude for magic, but only boys are allowed to attend the school for magic in Tenochtitlan, so her twin brother Eagle …
Book Review | The Railway Conspiracy
Shockingly, none of the action of this story takes place on a train. The Railway Conspiracy by John Shen Yen Nee and SJ Rozan once again follows the crime-fighting duo, Judge Dee Ren Jie and Lao She, this time as they face off with a multinational conspiracy in 1920s London. After the attempted theft of …
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