For once, I read a duology without waiting months and months in between the books! In Darcie Little Badger’s books Elatsoe and Sheine Lende, we follow two members of the same family: Ellie and Shane, a granddaughter and grandmother. In the first book, Ellie is a high schooler living in an America quite like our …
Tag: contemporary fiction
Book Review | Love Spells Trouble
In Love Spells Trouble by Nia Davenport, Cayden has struggled for years to feel accepted. Her witch mother had a falling out with her parents after she married a magic-less human, and so Cayden has always felt ostracized by the elitist witches in the area. But now, the family bakery is faced with skyrocketing rent …
Book Review | The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World (ARC)
I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World by J. R. Dawson. Since this version is just a proof and not the final version, I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World, Nera has spent years …
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Book Review | Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date
This isn’t relevant to this review, but I’m this close to abandoning my TBR in favor of rereading Project Hail Mary after seeing the movie trailer. I am INSANELY excited for it. Anyway, in Iris Kelly Doesn’t Date by Ashley Herring Blake, Iris is struggling against her family’s and friends’ expectations of her. They don’t …
Book Review | Eat the Ones You Love
As you might have guessed from the title, this one is weird. In Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin, Michelle “Shell” Pine is at loose ends after breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, moving back in with her parents, and getting laid off. She manages to get a job at a local …
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