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February 24, 2021

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers (Review by Karina Kaushal)

4 Stars Honey Girl is a debut novel with a beautiful black girl with hair the color of honey, a LGBTQ, millennial couple, and a drunken […]
February 22, 2021

In The Company of Men by Véronique Tadjo (Review by Samantha Helias)

Rating: 3/5 stars In the Company of Men is a dark love letter to humanity revolving around the Ebola epidemic of 2014 to 2016. The novel […]
February 20, 2021

The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin (Review by Stacey Lorenson)

Rating: 5.0 The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin reminded me of Big Little Lies by Lynn Moriarty, Nigerian style. Each of Babi […]
February 18, 2021

Tomorrow Will Be Better by Betty Smith (Review by Madhura Mukhopadhyay)

Rating – 4/5 At eighteen, Margy Shannon has simple wants. A suitable career until she finds a husband, followed by children and a cozy home. She […]
February 16, 2021

Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli (Review by Karina Kaushal)

4 Stars In the usual Sonya Lalli fashion, this book follows a native Indian girl who’s born and raised in North America. She faces family pressure […]
February 14, 2021

A Crooked Tree by Una Mannion (Review by Julie Ramhold)

Rating: 4.5* Content warning: Incidents of child molestation “The night we left Ellen on the road, we were driving north up 252 near where it meets […]
February 12, 2021

The War of the Poor by Eric Vuillard (Review by Madhura Mukhopadhyay)

Rating: 4/5 In the 14th century, a man named John Wycliffe sent the Catholic Church into a tizzy with an idea. There could exist a direct […]
February 10, 2021

The Berlin Girl by Mandy Robotham (Review by Katherin Burk)

5 stars The Berlin Girl follows the life of British reporter, Georgie Young, in Berlin on the cusp of war in 1938. Bringing a unique perspective […]
February 8, 2021

The Mirror Man by Jane Gilmartin (Review by Madhura Mukhopadhyay)

Rating: 4/5 When ViGen Pharmaceuticals approaches Jeramiah Adams with an offer to participate in an experiment, it sounds too good to be true. Using a breakthrough […]