{ Review } Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

“Fight until you can’t breathe, & if you have to forfeit, you forfeit smiling, make them think you let them win.” Read in June 2020 In Clap When You Land, the story follows Camino et Yahaira, two half-sisters that have spent the first sixteen years of their life not aware of the other one’s existence […]

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{ Review } The Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake

“It’s changed me forever, but changed doesn’t have to mean broken.” Read in  May 2020 Spoilers In Girl Made of Stars, we follow Mara a teenage girl living her normal and happy teenager life, outside of the fact that things are strained between her and her ex/childhood best friend Charlie. Until one day her world […]

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{ Review } Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno

> I posted a buddy read discussion yesterday, you can follow this link to read it. < “Of all the stories about my family, the Fernweh women and the island of By-the-Sea, there are two that no one will ever forget. One is the story of how my sister, Mary, and I were born. And […]

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{ Review } The Henna Wars by Adiba Jaigirdar

“So that’s how I spend Sunny Apu’s engagement, trying to construct the perfect coming out moment, and wondering if that even exists. I try to think back to every movie, TV show, and book that I’ve ever seen or read with gay protagonists. Even gay side characters. Each coming out was tragically painful. And they […]

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{ Mini-Reviews } Heartstopper: Volume One, Two & Three by Alice Oseman

Hi friends, Today, I’m coming back to you with one of the only graphic novels I’ve read in my whole life but I’m so happy that I gave it a chance because mamma mia it was worth every second I spend on it. This isn’t going to be a basic review of each book individually […]

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{ Review } I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson

“The right-handed twin tells the truth, the left-handed twin tells lies. (Noah and I are both left-handed)” Read in April 2020 In I’ll Give You the Sun we read the story of non-identical twins Noah and Jude Sweetwine, told in two different timelines. While Noah tells the story of the past, on the summer they […]

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{ ARC } { Review } The Fascinators by Andrew Eliopulos

“If you believe it, you can achieve it, that’s like the number-one rule of magic.” ~ This book was kindly provided to me by the publisher via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review ~ Read in April 2020 It’s been a very long time since a book had let me down as much as […]

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{ Review } When the Moon Was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore

“The way he loved her was his, even if she wasn’t.” Read in March 2020 Spoilers When the Moon Was Ours takes place in a world very similar to ours, but also very different. Miel arrived at age five, one day without warnings. People say she appeared within the water of the water tower the […]

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{ Review } We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding

“The secret about falling in love is how you can do it a million times over with the same person, when the person is the right one.” Read in February 2020 Honestly, I don’t give 1-star rating easily but this book was dreadful and every single part of it was a disappointment. According to the […]

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{ Review } The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum

“Sometimes the only way to pry your arms away from tightly holding yourself together is when you’re given a reason to hold up your fists.” Read in January 2020 After reading and loving The Wicker King, I was on the ready for any new book K. Ancrum would write. It’s without hesitation that I joined […]

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