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I have had Carry On Wayward Son stuck in my head for days

Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell

Jackpot by Nic Stone

November 5, 2019 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

(4 stars) Wayward Son (Simon Snow #2) by Rainbow Rowell I was pretty excited for this one, and it mostly held up to the weight of my expectations. It’s hard not to draw parallels between Rowell’s characters and J.K. Rowling’s, but they’re certainly there. I do love some Penelope Bunce (because I love me some Hermione Granger), and she gets a chance to shine here. “But it was a mistake thinking of that as an end. There is no end. Bad things happen, and then […]

Social justice YA is my new favorite YA genre

March 8, 2018 by MrsLangdonAlger Leave a Comment

Like The Hate U Give, this book is absolutely necessary. So we’re all lucky that it also happens to be very, very good. The book follows a very similar plotline to The Hate U Give: a young person of color makes discoveries about racial injustice and how it relates to them personally due to shocking and tragic circumstances, and figures out how to navigate that while also navigating the usual teenage issues. In Dear Martin, Justyce McAllister begins to wake up to just how racist […]

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