Category: Reviews
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Skin of the Sea Review
Simidele is one of Yemoja’s Mami Wata, mermaids who collects the souls of the dead tossed from ships and blesses their journeys to the beyond. But Simidele remembers her life as a human, in bits and pieces, she is the only one who doesn’t want to let the water wash away her memories as it…
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Dark Ascension: The Lost Ones Review
In a small fishing village in England, a modest couple expected a child. What they did not except were twins! James, the eldest is cautious, sensible, pragmatic, a way with numbers that is completely at odds with the expectation that he’ll continue their father’s fishing business. A fact he hates when he fears the sea.…
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Love & War Review
I know it looks a bit ironic to start the month of Valentines, love and romance with a broken heart title but it is just the theme of the story, Alex and Eliza do triumph through their obstacles like any good HEA.
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Past Present Future Review
I received this Netgalley ARC for free from Kanter’s agent in exchange for an honest review It may have been a few years since Solomon first published the adventures and romance of longtime rivals, Rowen and Neil on the eve of their graduation, but it’s only been a summer for the overachievers. Now, they’re apart…
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Finally Fitz Review
I received this Netgalley ARC for free from Kanter’s agent in exchange for an honest review. Ava (our titular “Fitz”) Fitzgerald’s brand is all about sustainability fashion. In fact, she has created quite a career out of it on social media. Soon, she’ll upgrade on a prestigious fashion internship in NY and prove to her…
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Dear Justyce Review
Quan has been in and out of the incarceration system since he was 11. He came from home of trauma with a mom in an abusive relationship and a dad who is there for him until one night he gets carted off to jail, the night that lives in QUan’s nightmares. Despite Quan’s best efforts…
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Loveboat Forever Review
Pearl Wong knows who she is, aspiring pianist who has already played on stages around the world, and knows where she’s going, the Apollo Summer Program, a guarantee acceptance to the wider classical music community. Until she gets into a tiktok scandal where her hat, remiscent of old Asian stereotypes, draws fire and her spot…
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Alex & Eliza Review
Ah yes, Alexander and Eliza, America’s now most famous and beloved love story. De La Cruz takes us to 1777 at a midwinter’s ball where the Schuyler Sisters are the envy of all. Eliza is the quintessential middle child of the Schuylers, although she takes after her father’s reserved, practical independence, she is not as…
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Wicked Review
Alright, I knew this wasn’t going to be like the movie or the musical but I hadn’t expected how political or dark this was going to be.
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The Grace Kelly Dress Review
Weddings are supposed to be one of the biggest days of your life and the wedding dress is the centerpiece. But for this family, the Grace Kelly dress insired by the Grace Kelly wedding dress holds differing meanings and expectations for each women on their special day. Janowitz takes us through an intergenerational story spanning…
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