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I Kissed Shara Wheeler
★★★★★ Gorgeous could-not-put-it-down senior year YA queer rom-com. Like a beautiful, extra gay blend between Booksmart and Paper Towns. Casey McQuiston does it again!
The Marrow Thieves
★★★★☆ The idea of extracting the bone marrow of Indigenous people is so chilling. But Indigenous people having the unique ability to dream in this post-apocalyptic future is a beautiful counterpoint, and something that is given several incredibly evocative narrative moments.
Gods of Jade and Shadow
★★★★★ This might be the best book I’ve read all year, and certainly the best and smoothest reading experience I’ve had in MONTHS. Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is an adventure fantasy/myth retelling set in Mexico in the 1920s Jazz Age.
Orpheus Girl
★★★☆☆ Dreamy sad teen lesbian romance, very very very loosely based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in the American south in the early 2000s.
Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1)
★★★☆☆ Swashbuckling noir heist fantasy with an ensemble cast of broken tragic ne’er do wells who, between the lot of them, cover basically every type of damage. This book is...a lot.
The Night Masquerade (Binti #3)
★★☆☆☆ The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.
Home (Binti #2)
★★★☆☆ It’s been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero for uniting two warring planets. A year since she abandoned her family in the dawn of a new day.
Binti (Binti #1)
★★★☆☆ Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to travel between the stars among strangers who do not share her ways or respect her customs.
Wilder Girls
★★☆☆☆ I get the Lord of the Flies-but-girls pitch from a marketing perspective, but in reality it’s way more like The Maze Runner-but-girl’s. Also there are fully at least 2 adults stranded with the girls - who are teens not children. Lesbian romance was shite, no build up, no build out, not a fan.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
★★★★☆ A bright, vivid, super fuckin’ funny contemporary novel about a teenage boy named Junior who leaves his reservation to go to a white school many miles away.