🌟🌟🌟🌟1/2 A captivating YA read, sparkling with starlight and magical realism, a tough and unmistakably tender heroine, an existential quest, and a whole townfull of lost and lovely souls. Welcome to Hadley, Arizona. Belutha, our main protagonist, is sixteen years old, a social misfit and an "invisible girl", who is…
🌟🌟🌟🌟 An affecting and poignant collection of short stories, each of them featuring strong characterization and a struggle, of some sort, with deep and emotional impact, arising out of the kinds of quandaries ordinary people - people just like us - can end-up finding themselves lost in. Several of the…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My stop today on the @rrbooktours #rrbooktours blogtour for the #YA release of #burningbright - Book two in the rise and fall of Dani Truehart Series, by @author.michelekwas When we last met Dani Truehart, in the pages of “Rising Star”, Dani was 15 years old and a singing-dancing pop…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 “Oddballs, each of them, unusual females employed in an industry that encouraged them to be neutral, even neutered, to not cultivate their feminine sides. The road had no room for babies, or for husbands, or for personal relationships.” Meet Alex, Lily, Kat and Brooke. Four women, intimately drawn…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “You give up traditions at your peril. One day you’ll look back and not remember who you are.” Imagine it’s 1909, and you, a Jewish teen accompanied by your family, survivors of the Russian revolution at a terrible cost, land in NYC to begin a new life. And so…