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  • China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan

    What if you found out that your long lost father was just as rich as your friends were? What if you went from nothing to something in a blink of an eye? What if all this news brought some more troubling issues into your life? China Rich Girlfriend is the sequel to the popular Crazy Rich Asians (currently…

  • It took me exactly one month to finish A Court of Wings and Ruin

    Some of you may do this while others take a more traditional approach, but I love to track my books on Goodreads. Being as my day job consists of looking at numbers all the time, I wanted to look at the numbers for a book I was reading. How long does it take me to…

  • Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han

    I love me some good old fashion young adult. No frills. No complications. The kinds of books that don’t surprise you with turmoil or unexpected struggles. It’s like reading a book about reality and sometimes in reality, there’s not a lot of drama for your mama. Synopsis Lara Jean’s letter-writing days aren’t over in this…

  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

    I don’t think I’ve ever read a book as relevant to today as this one. This story is about the importance of knowing that there are always two sides to a story. Synopsis Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The…

  • We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

      Well, it took me long enough to write up this review and I want to do it justice because We Are Okay was one of the most beautifully written books I’ve read in 2017. I finished reading this one on the flight to Florida earlier in April and sadly, it took me this long…

  • Caraval by Stephanie Garber

    Remember, it’s only a game… Maybe it’s me or the most recent weeks, but I’ve been watching and reading a lot about warp realities and the mind playing tricks on you. What is real? What’s not real? How can you tell the difference? In a world where you can’t tell what’s real and what’s not…

  • Next Year, For Sure by Zoey Leigh Peterson

    Imagine if you were in a relationship and completely happy. Blissfully happy in the same routines you’re always used to doing. You’re always sure you’ll come home to someone. Then suddenly, your significant other tells you that they’re interested in someone else. How do you react? This book is about the value of a relationship.…

  • A Conjuring of Light by VE Schwab

    If you’re into video games, this book and its series definitely feels like you’re playing one. I think that goes double for A Conjuring of Light in which they have to fight a mega boss; a shadowy creature that inhabits its prey and forces them to do things. What would you do with your rag-tag…

  • Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

    This is probably the first story I’ve read where I don’t understand the Asians in the story. It’s because they’re super rich and I’m not super rich. It’s because it takes place in Singapore and honestly, I don’t know much about Singapore outside of their food. However, what I did understand is that this story…

  • The Mothers by Brit Bennett

    I approached this book believing that it’d be vignettes of different mothers and their daily lives. However, it is so much more than that. The Mothers here are a group of church women who congregate outside of regular sermon hours to pray, chat, and mostly gossip about everyone in their small town in San Diego.…