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Book Review- Amari and the Night Brothers
Title: Amari and the Night BrothersAuthor: B.B. AlstonPublished: 21st JanuaryPublisher: Egmont UKGenre: Middle-grade, Magic, Sci-fiTWs: Bullying, racism, Rating: 5/5 stars Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can’t understand why it’s not a bigger deal. Why isn’t his story all over the news? And why do the police automatically assume he was into something illegal? Then Amari discovers a ticking briefcase in her brother’s old closet. A briefcase meant for her eyes only. There was far more to Quinton, it seems, than she ever…
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Book Review- We Hunt The Flame
Title: We Hunt The Flame Author: Hafsah Faizal Published: 8th August 2019 Pages: 480 Series: Sands of Arawiya #1 Genre: YA, Fantasy Trigger Warnings: Neglect, Abuse, Death Rating: 5/5 People lived because she killed. People died because he lived. Nobody knows that Zafira is the Hunter. Forced to disguise herself as a man, she braves the cursed forest to feed her people. If she is exposed as a girl, all of her achievements will be rejected. Nasir is the infamous Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the sultan. If he refuses he will be punished in the most brutal of ways. Both are legends…
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Book Review- When Dimple Met Rishi
Title: When Dimple Met Rishi Author: Sandhya Menon Published: 30th May 2017 Pages: 380 Genre: YA, Romance, Contemporary, Diverse Rating: 4/5 stars Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right? Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending…