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Book Review: A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi
CONTENT WARNING: BULLYING, XENOPHOBIA, AND GENERAL DISPLAYS OF ASSHOLERY AMAZON — GOODREADS — BARNES & NOBLE — BOOK DEPOSITORY I’d been wanting to read a Tahereh Mafi book for a while (I tried reading Shatter Me, but couldn’t get past the first few pages), so this seemed like a good place to start. And I must say, I devoured this book in a few hours and loved every minute of it. * “I was stuck in another small town, trapped in another universe populated by the kind of people who’d only ever seen faces like mine on their evening news, and I hated it.“ * Right from the second page,…
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Book Review: Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann
AMAZON — GOODREADS — BARNES & NOBLES — BOOK DEPOSITORY I really didn’t have such high hopes before I read this book, and that can be blamed on the fact that I only picked it up because of the cover and the fact that it features an ace character. I’m quite glad I read it, though, since it brought me out of my reading slump/smut fest. Let’s Talk About Love is about Alice and her experiences as an ace person trying to navigate life and relationships. Although the book’s focus is the romance, it also shows how Alice is going about deciding what she wants for her future, even though…
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Book Review: My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
AMAZON — GOODREADS — BARNES & NOBLE — BOOK DEPOSITORY The blurb pretty much tells you what to expect from this story; it’s about Korede, whose sister has formed a habit of killing her lovers for whatever reason. However, it’s also about many other things, including family and sisterhood, jealousy, favouritism, and loyalty. Korede has spent her life overshadowed by her younger sister’s beauty. While Ayoola can get away with a lot of things because of her physical appearance, Korede can’t. This means that Korede can’t tell anyone about her sister’s murderous ways, because who’d believe her? Everyone would just think she’s jealous. So, she goes on cleaning up after…
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6 Things I Like About A Girl Like Her
This is one of those reviews where I can’t do much more than gush, so here’s a dedicated post to me just gushing about A Girl Like Her. First Impressions: This book grabbed my attention from the start and it was all because of the period mention. First impressions count, folks! Representation: Ruth is a curvy, autistic character of colour who has been abused in the past. And she’s of Sierra Leonean descent (I’m biased when it comes to African characters). Just having marginalised characters is not enough, the story also has to do justice to the characters, and I think A Girl Like Her does Ruth justice! It also…
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Book Review: Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas
AMAZON — GOODREADS — BARNES & NOBLE — BOOK DEPOSITORY *** In Birthday Girl, Jordan meets a man who makes her feel relaxed for the first time in a long time. It isn’t until later that night that she finds out that said man is her boyfriend’s father- Pike. Fast forward to a few hours later when she, as well as her boyfriend, is moving in with Pike. I didn’t read the synopsis of this book before starting, so the whole boyfriend’s dad thing was a big surprise for me. To be honest, had I read the synopsis, I probably wouldn’t have been interested in this book because it hints…
