Every one and a while I like to remind y’all that it’s possible for me to like YA and romance. In this case, the book combined the two and I loved it!
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Mini(bot) Rants: The Silver Kiss
I’m here today to bring you one of the flops from the end of 2019.
Book Review: Pride
Pride
By Ibi Zoboi
My Edition:
Hardcover, 289 pages
2018, Balzer + Bray
ISBN: 9780062564047
Zuri Benitez loves her hood – the block parties, the corner stores, the way everyone knows and looks out for each other. When the rich Darcy family renovates an abandoned house across the street from her apartment and moves in, Zuri is immediately suspicious. She doesn’t need some rich family coming in and trying to change her neighborhood. But when her older sisters Janae starts hanging out with Ainsley Darcy, Zuri finds herself running into Ainsley’s younger brother, Darius. She doesn’t want to like or understand the polished, polite Darius, nor does she think he could ever understand her and her way of life. She might just find, though, that appearances aren’t always what they seem.
While YA romance is certainly not my genre of choice, no way was I passing up an own-voices, modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice.
Book Review: The Next Together
The Next Together
By Lauren James
My Edition:
Hardcover, 356 pages
2017, Sky Pony Press
ISBN: 9781510710214
Thank you to Sky Pony Press for sending me this book for free in exchange for my honest review.
Katherine and Matthew find themselves drawn together, unexpectedly in sync with each other…each and every time they meet. Across history, they’ve been born over and over, always meeting, always falling in love, always doomed. Now it’s the year 2039 and they’ve met once more. As vague memories begin to resurface, the two try to figure out what’s been happening to themselves across the centuries.
This is a hard book to blurb, because there’s a lot going on. I’m feeling a rant coming on, so if you’re looking for the short version: I enjoyed the concept of K&M’s constant reincarnations and their connections across time. There’s a dash of sci-fi thrown in that had me intrigued, but ultimately wanting more. I think the details were lacking and the characters were so similarly boring that I didn’t care for any iteration of the couple. The ending was especially disappointing and if a sequel exists, I won’t read on.
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