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Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson
Sweetness in the Skin by Ishi Robinson My rating: 5 of 5 stars Ishi Robinson has accomplished an incredible feat of creating nuanced neighbourhoods and relationship conflicts here. The author’s choice to write in first person makes the unfamiliar (to me) places, cultures and dialects of Jamaica accessible to anyone reading. There are so many…
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Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks
Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the best Faith Erin Hicks graphic that I’ve read since Friends with Boys in 2012. I think she’s done a great job of showing the nuances of keeping the peace versus sticking up for yourself and both Alix…
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Flower and Thorn by Rati Mehrotra
Flower and Thorn by Rati Mehrotra My rating: 5 of 5 stars Loved it. An epic journey with magic that is not easy to come by. I really like the rarity of the magic and how much it takes a toll on not just the individual, but also the community and the society. It’s atypical…
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40 Days in Hicksville by Christina Kilbourne
40 Days in Hicksville by Christina Kilbourne My rating: 5 of 5 stars I found it very compelling between pages 50 to the end only because the novel’s complexity requires a lot of exposition for clarity. The mystery setup requires a lot of back story as the 2 young detectives need to find a way…
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Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng
Gorgeous Gruesome Faces by Linda Cheng My rating: 4 of 5 stars It’s like a K-pop version of V.C. Andrews. If BlackPink and Edgar Allen Poe had a love child, it might look like Gorgeous Gruesome Faces. Weirdly enough it also spotlights the same mythology as another title this yearSong of the Six Realms (which…
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The Space Between Here & Now by Sarah Suk
The theme of ‘coming-of-age’ pretty much describes the Young Adult genre. But in The Space Between Here and Now, author Sarah Suk, expresses Aimee’s ‘coming of age’ through finding her identity in both culture and disability. I really like how Aimee has a memory of this cute tattoo boy from her childhood in Korea, and…
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