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Lobizona by Romina Garber | ARC Review

29th April 2020
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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Where Dreams Descend by Janella Angeles | ARC Review

26th April 2020
Where Dreams Descend (Kingdom of Cards #1) by Janella Angeles
- Publisher: Wednesday Books, August 25th 2020
- Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
- Format: eARC
- Page Count: 464 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5)
Glorian is a cursed city. When a magician competition was held there, Kallia, eager to leave Jack’s club and prove that women should have a place in performance magic, joined it despite Jack’s warning. Things went awry from there and no one knew why.
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The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen | ARC Review

15th April 2020
The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones by Daven McQueen
- Publisher: Wattpad Books, 2020
- Genre: Young Adult, Historical Fiction
- Format: Paperback (eARC)
- Page Count: 304 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)
This was an intense book. I laughed, I fumed, and I sobbed. Upon finishing, I had to sit back to compose myself.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

17th August 2018
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Magic Cleaning #1) by Marie Kondo, translated by Cathy Hirano
- Publisher: Ten Speed Press, 2014
- Genre: Self-Help Book
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 224 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)
If you need affirmation for getting rid of stuff without feeling too much guilt, then Marie Kondo’s book is probably pretty helpful. I think I understand how her ‘talking to inanimate things’ seemed crazy to a lot of people, but as a fellow Asian, it is actually quite understandable, though of course, it is still a little bit weird.
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Other-Wordly by Yee-Lum Mak & Kelsey Garrity-Riley

29th May 2018
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World by Yee-Lum Mak, illustrated by Kelsey Garrity-Riley
- Publisher: Chronicle Books, 2016
- Genre: Language
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 53 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
Awwww, the illustrations are really endearing and heart-warming! Some of the words are so peculiar yet amazingly accurate about life that they should exist in every language.
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