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    Lobizona by Romina Garber | ARC Review

    29th April 2020
    Cover of Lobizona (Romina Garber)

    Lobizona (Wolves of No World #1) by Romina Garber

    • Publisher: Wednesday Books, 2020
    • Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
    • Format: eARC
    • Page Count: 400 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)

    Manuela Azul has special eyes. Eyes that her mother made her hide behind sunglasses. Raised in Miami to a single Argentine mother, Manu dreamed of the day when she would be a U.S. citizen and the end of her almost 17 years of hiding. But when her “grandmother” was injured and mother taken away by ICE, Manu was left to fend for herself for the first time in her life. A life she understood almost nothing about.


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    THE EXTRAORDINARIES by TJ Klune | ARC Review

    22nd April 2020
    Cover of The Extraordinaries (TJ Klune)

    THE EXTRAORDINARIES (The Extraordinaries #1) by TJ Klune

    • Publisher: Tor Teen, 2020
    • Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, LGBTQ+
    • Format: Ebook (eARC)
    • Page Count: 400 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

    Click on the cover for my review on Goodreads.


    When I started reading The Extraordinaries, I did not have any expectations. The opening of the story was a fanfic chapter by Nick, and I did not really appreciate it nor realise Shadow Star and Pyro Storm were real in the book. But as I read on into the main story, it was surprisingly enjoyable and gave me a few laughs. The book was the kind of YA fantasy with queer main characters I needed back in my teens.

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    The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

    29th June 2018
    Cover of The Blood of Olympus (Rick Riordan)

    The Blood of Olympus (The Heroes of Olympus #5) by Rick Riordan

    • Publisher: Puffin Books, 2014
    • Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult
    • Format: Ebook
    • Page Count: 516 pages
    • My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)

    It has been four years since I read book 4, back when The Blood of Olympus wasn’t even released.

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Lí-hó!! I am Hsinju (they/she), a Taiwanese book blogger, writer, and full-time grad student in engineering. Here, I mainly review books featuring authentically represented LGBTQ+ characters and/or written by LGBTQ+ authors. You’d usually find me going about life with my heart stuck in the last book I finished.

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