Smash It!
Review Smash It! is a messy, imperfect, but fun contemporary high school romance centering on Shakespeare, body positivity, and taking the leap to reach for the things you want. Liv…
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Review What blows my mind about this meoir is how incredibly readable and accessible it is, considering the fact that it was written over a century ago. Frederick Douglass was…
The Unclean
Review African folk superstition with a heavy dose of Christian spirituality come together to form an absolutely horrifying novella about womanhood in a traditional patriarchal society. The story follows doomed…
Beasts Made of Night
Review I feel like such an asshole for not liking this book. The premise for this novel is so good and I was excited to pick it up. The book…
Helium
Review Goodness gracious Helium was such a breath of fresh air. Francisco writes with a voice that is down to earth and full of so much truth about life today…
The Garden
Review What did I just read? The Garden is a drifting narrative about a young woman named Lęina, who is following a journal her mother left behind to find a…
The Hate U Give
Review WOW. I’ve seen so much talk about this book and I was fearful that it wouldn’t live up to the hype but how wrong I was to worry. The…
Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
Review For those that don't already know who Trevor Noah is, he is a comedian from South Africa that is now the current host of The Daily Show, taking the…
Another Brooklyn
Review I first encountered Jacqueline Woodson through her bite-sized memoir, Before Her, earlier this year and I was so in love with her prose that I knew I needed to…
The Lost Star of Mariage-du-Diable
Review The Lost Star of Mariage-du-Diable is an intriguing short story with a haunting premise: a group of friends swear an oath to take revenge on the man that killed…