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This Impossible Light

This Impossible Light

By Lily Myers
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Lucas F.
Feb 2, 2024

A dizzying prose about body dysmorphia and anorexia, This Impossible Light is a short prose novel unlike any other. It has an interesting style of poetic workspace while telling the story of a short novel. However, the spacing does not help with the story, and the length of the entire book is likely less than one hundred pages without the spacing.

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The Sense of Wonder

The Sense of Wonder

By Matthew Salesses
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Rishi
Feb 2, 2024

Won, the first Asian American basketball player in the NBA, rose to stardom as one of the best players on the team. A Korean American TV producer, Carrie is working to get Kdramas onto the American stage. Won wants to be a basketball star and renew his temporary contract with the New York Knicks, while Carrie wants to bring representative Korean shows to America. However, extreme racism is a hurdle for both Won and Carrie in their journey along with other life issues involving the relationships of their friends, Carrie’s sister’s cancer, and more.

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Alice in Wonderland

Alice in Wonderland

By Lewis Carroll
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 2, 2024

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll revolves around Alice, a young girl with an impressive imagination, as she travels through a land filled with impossibilities in search of a way back home. She encounters many characters along the way, such as the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, and the Queen of Hearts. Many of the characters act as obstacles as she tries to find her way back home but a few help to guide her through her adventure.

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The Fault in Our Stars

The Fault in Our Stars

By John Green
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 2, 2024

The main character in the book's name is Hazel and she gets diagnosed with cancer. While being a cancer patient she meets and falls in love with a boy named Augustus Waters, who she meets from her cancer support group. Throughout the story a relationship between Hazel and Augustus develops. Augustus then finds a way to make her dying wish to come true. He takes her to see her favorite author, who wrote the book An Imperial Affliction which she is obsessed with.

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Six of Crows

Six of Crows

By Leigh Bardugo
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Mahad Z.
Feb 2, 2024

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo is a fantasy novel set in the Grishaverse, a world filled with magic and danger. The story follows a diverse group of six outcasts led by the cunning and skilled Kaz Brekker, as they embark on a seemingly impossible heist to break into the heavily guarded Ice Court and rescue a kidnapped scientist who possesses a deadly secret formula.

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Sorcery of Thorns

Sorcery of Thorns

By Margaret Rogerson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 2, 2024

Elisabeth is an apprentice librarian in a library full of grimoires, which talk and can be used by sorcerers to perform magic. When a grimoire is damaged, they come to life as ink monsters which wardens protect the world from. Elisabeth hopes to become a warden one day, but when Elisabeth is accused of sabotage to her library, she is taken to the capital by sorcerer Nathaniel Thorn and his demon Silas.

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The Hand on the Wall

The Hand on the Wall

By Maureen Johnson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mahad Z.
Feb 2, 2024

The Hand on the Wall by Maureen Johnson is the thrilling conclusion to the Truly Devious trilogy. Steeped in mystery and suspense, the story follows amateur detective Stevie Bell as she continues her quest to solve the decades-old cold case surrounding the Ellingham Academy. In this final installment, Stevie faces mounting pressure as she inches closer to uncovering the truth behind the mysterious deaths at the academy.

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One of Us is Next by Karen M. McManus

One of Us Is Next

By Karen M. McManus
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Lilyana G.
Jan 26, 2024

One of Us Is Next, the sequel to BookTok sensation One of Us Is Lying, is a young adult mystery/thriller that will have you hooked from the start! Rather than following the original Bayview Four, we instead get a glimpse into the life of three new main characters with their own juicy secrets. In this twisty thriller, Bayview High is still in recovery after the whole fiasco involving Simon. Several copycat apps have been created in his wake, though none of them last long. Until now.

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It's Not Summer Without You book cover

It's Not Summer Without You

By Jenny Han
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jan 26, 2024

Both Laurel, Belly, and Steven, and Jeremiah and Conrad are distraught after the death of Susannah. The relationships between everyone have become strained and unfamiliar. But, when Belly gets a call from Jeremiah that Conrad has disappeared from school, she springs at the chance to help her boys. 

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