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  • The Retake Review

    In this sci-fi/magical realism novel, Calonita tackles the struggles of chaging friendships in the hellscape that is middle school adolescence. Zoe and Laura have been BFFs forever but Zoe has been noticing they’ve been drifting apart. She’s determined to ignore her doubts and try harder to reconnect with Laura after a summer apart, and give…

  • Heartless Review

    Meyer steps away from the sci-fi landscape of Luna society and Earth to step into a world of magical realism where Victorian-era human characters chat with talking candles and animal beings in this tale of hearts stolen and broken.

  • Author Highlight: Isabel Allende

    So I’ve finally read one of the greatest writers of our time, and I have to join the thousands that agree. My mom gifted me with her first, The House of Spirits, and latest books, Violeta respectively and they were beautiful.

  • Lovely War Review

    Set in the backdrop of WWI, two loves stories intertwine as the couples face trauma, and bigotry with the help of the gods.

  • The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina Review

    So I was so so excited to get this book. It’s like the ONLY book I’ve ever read that has Ecuadorian characters.  It’s always Mexican/Dominican/Puerto Rican since those are the most common in the US. But this was a whole family of them. Plus the family and the author were from Guayaquil, Ecuador! Just where my…

  • Rachel’s Diverse Reads of 2021

    I decided last year to expand my reading from the deliciously fun backstabbing frenemy series like Gossip Girl and Beauty Queens to a group diverse YA standalone book so here are my reviews. They’re a bit short since I wrote it after I read all the books, which again was over the year, so it’s…