Girl Mans Up is the debut LTGBQ YA novel from M-E Girard. Here’s a peek at what the launch party was like for this awesome new book.
I first read Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson back in high school. Now I’m realizing how much I didn’t understand then and confronting my own faults.
Em is a 12-year-old girl in a floating community off the Gulf Coast. Kaya is a political activist in a terrifying prison. They are pen pals. And Pen Pal by Francesca Forrest is the story of their correspondence.
Clariel is a prequel looking at the backstory of a villain from the original Old Kingdom trilogy, but this origin story falls way short of expectations.
So much for getting my 2016 reviews off on the right foot. After not posting something last week, here’s a double capsule review of two very different books.