THE DARK WE KNOW by WEN-YI LEE A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN It’s official, readers. We are now entering Spooky Season, the greatest season of them all. Because of this, I figured it would be the perfect time to read and review a spooky book. Enter The Dark We Know…
SONG OF THE SIX REALMS by JUDY LIN A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Hello, dear readers, and welcome back to your regularly scheduled book reviews! I took the summer off to focus on summer reading, but now that it’s over, I’m back to reading and reviewing. The first book of…
DANCING AT THE PITY PARTY by TYLER FEDER A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder is a difficult graphic novel to read. Not because the text is hard to decipher or because the art is bad. Rather, Dancing at the Pity Party is hard because of…
BLESS THE BLOOD by WALELA NEHANDA A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN TRIGGER WARNING: Discussions of cancer throughout For this week’s review, dear readers, we’re going to switch things up a bit. The book I’m reviewing is not a novel, rather a YA memoir written in poetry, verse, and prose. That…
ROADQUEEN by MIRA ONG CHUA A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Road Queen by Mira Ong Chua is a very interesting graphic novel. Why? Because it straddles the line between Western comics and Japanese manga to the point where I could easily see this being a manga. The book features Leo and…
RED WOLF by RACHEL VINCENT A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN When I saw that Rachel Vincent, an icon of early/mid-2000s YA paranormal romance, wrote a new book retelling Little Red Riding Hood, I knew I had to read it. Not only do I love some good old fashioned paranormal romance,…
STOLEN by LUCY CHRISTOPHER A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Stolen by Lucy Christopher was released in 2009. I was a sophomore in high school! Despite it being out for so long, I never picked it up even though I was familiar with its concept: Teenage girl gets kidnapped from an airport…
FRESHMAN YEAR by SARAH MAI A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Freshman Year by Sarah Mai is a painfully real graphic memoir about the author’s first year in college. It doesn’t paint a rosy picture of college life, either, which I really appreciated given my own tumultuous freshman year way back…
FINDING JUPITER by KELIS ROWE A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Finding Jupiter by Kelis Rowe is a moving story of young Black love that doesn’t shy away from difficult subject matters. The book–told in two perspectives–follows Ray and Orion, two teens who meet at a skating rink and almost instantly fall…
LUNAR NEW YEAR LOVE STORY by GENE LUEN YANG AND LEUYEN PHAM A REVIEW by ALEXA DUNCAN Happy (almost) Lunar New Year to all who celebrate! It’s the 10th of February this year, so I figured now would be a perfect time to review Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene…