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“Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown”

Paper Towns (2008) by John Green

July 11, 2022 by drmllz 2 Comments

When I was in high school at the turn of the century, while too young for bars and too old and cool for McDonalds, some friends and I would sit cross-legged on the platform between railway tracks at the train station of our town and play ‘pulse murder’. This was a game where you sat in a circle, and held hands, and one person was the murderer (I forget how they were assigned), and sent a number of squeezes, or pulses, around the circle. If […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: after that summer nothing would ever be the same again, drmllz, john green, paper towns, Young Adult

drmllz's CBR14 Review No:5 · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: after that summer nothing would ever be the same again, drmllz, john green, paper towns, Young Adult ·
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“Shara’s not nice. Shara’s so many more important things than nice.”

I Kissed Shara Wheeler by Casey McQuiston

July 5, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars It’s not exactly easy being Chloe Green, the bisexual girl with two mums when also trying to become valedictorian at Willowgrove Christian Academy in a small Alabama town. She keeps trying to protest against the school’s puritanical rules with frequent dress code violations, but also has to make sure she doesn’t actually end up expelled. Chloe has friends, having quickly befriended the other queer kids at Willowgrove, but she’s mostly avoided interacting too much with the rest of the student body. Everything changes […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: audio book, Casey McQuiston, cbr14, contemporary fiction, friendship, Homophobia, I Kissed Shara Wheeler life, LGBTQIA, Malin, Natalie Naudus, Romance, Small town, Young Adult

Malin's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: audio book, Casey McQuiston, cbr14, contemporary fiction, friendship, Homophobia, I Kissed Shara Wheeler life, LGBTQIA, Malin, Natalie Naudus, Romance, Small town, Young Adult ·
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Growing up is hard to do

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

July 4, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

3.5 stars Official book description: Seventeen-year-old Lily Hu can’t remember exactly when the question took root, but the answer was in full bloom the moment she and Kathleen Miller walked under the flashing neon sign of a lesbian bar called the Telegraph Club. America in 1954 is not a safe place for two girls to fall in love, especially not in Chinatown. Red-Scare paranoia threatens everyone, including Chinese Americans like Lily. With deportation looming over her father–despite his hard-won citizenship–Lily and Kath risk everything to […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, History, Romance, Young Adult Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, 1950s, cbr14, coming-of-age, historical fiction, LGBTQIA, Malinda Lo, Racism, Young Adult

Malin's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Book Club, Fiction, History, Romance, Young Adult · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, 1950s, cbr14, coming-of-age, historical fiction, LGBTQIA, Malinda Lo, Racism, Young Adult ·
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“You can’t change how other people think and act, but you’re in full control of you.”

Dear Martin by Nic Stone

July 1, 2022 by Malin Leave a Comment

4.5 stars ustyce McAllister is a seventeen-year-old with a bright future, thanks to his grades and being lucky enough to have a mother who has worked herself to the bone to send him to the prestigious prep school in Atlanta. Then one evening, when trying to help his extremely drunken ex-girlfriend get home safely (she’s half-black, but looks more like her Norwegian mother than her black dad), he’s detained by a very aggressive cop who’s convinced he was trying to carjack and abduct the girl. […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #blacklivesmatter, Angie Thomas, cbr14, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, Dear Martin, friendship, Gun Violence, Malin, nic stone, Police Brutality, Racism, romantic, the hate u give, Young Adult

Malin's CBR14 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #blacklivesmatter, Angie Thomas, cbr14, coming-of-age, contemporary fiction, Dear Martin, friendship, Gun Violence, Malin, nic stone, Police Brutality, Racism, romantic, the hate u give, Young Adult ·
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The Merciless Ones

“When gods dance, humanity trembles”

The Merciless Ones by Namina Forna

June 8, 2022 by llamareadsbooks Leave a Comment

Completely separate from the book, but can we just talk about what a disappointment the cover is? The cover for The Gilded Ones was fire, but this? I mean, it’s not bad, but it’s nowhere near as great. This was one of my most anticipated sequels of the year, and it didn’t disappoint. Since this is the second book in a trilogy, this review will contain spoilers for the first book. Deka has taken her place as the Nuru, the chosen one of the Gilded […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, Namina Forna, Young Adult

llamareadsbooks's CBR14 Review No:50 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, Namina Forna, Young Adult ·
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All Signs Point to Yes

All signs point to… this being a pretty good anthology

All Signs Point to Yes by Cam Montgomery, Adrianne White, g. haron davis

June 2, 2022 by llamareadsbooks 1 Comment

I’m not a huge astrology fan. Pretty much every I know comes from random internet articles, but I’m a big fan of anthologies (author speed dating!), so I hopped in hoping for the best. Luckily, each of the thirteen stories has a list of characteristics for that sign before the story starts. Yes, there are thirteen stories, the twelve traditional zodiac signs plus one that my limited googling indicates is controversial. Aries: “ruler and killer” – g. haron davis – ★★ F/NB. Not a strong […]

Filed Under: Romance, Short Stories, Young Adult Tagged With: Anthology, Cam Montgomery, Adrianne White, g. haron davis, queer, Romance, Young Adult

llamareadsbooks's CBR14 Review No:49 · Genres: Romance, Short Stories, Young Adult · Tags: Anthology, Cam Montgomery, Adrianne White, g. haron davis, queer, Romance, Young Adult ·
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