Review: Cancelled - Farrah Penn - March 2024 You ever get in those moods where you want to read something, but the books you keep picking up, just don't hold your interest, and then wham bam - third time lucky. You find a book that isn't just holding your interest but it's an amazing read and turns out to be a 5-star read. That was me on Saturday morning with Cancelled by Farrah Penn. I first tried a couple of thrillers on the Libby App and then clicked on this book and loved it. Imagine the movies Easy A and Saved and you will have Cancelled. The book starts with our main female Brynn being a flirting coach and a bit of a Cyrano De Bergerac as she helps people write the perfect flirting messages and she's great at it too. That is until at a Halloween party, she not only breaks up with her boyfriend but someone has taken a picture of a person in a banana suit giving a guy a BJ. The guy is Duncan who is the boyfriend of Brynn's ex-best friend Lenora. Brynn is innocen...

Review: Our Friendship Matters - Kimberley B. Jones - October 2020 With the current state of BLM aka #BlackLivesMatter movement and the whole world going through a state of racism between whites and blacks. Our Friendship Matters by Kimberley B.Jones was one of those books that were published at the right time and focuses on the different movements and racism. Sasha, though African-American herself, with her parents wealthy - they decided to send her to a private school called Chester rather than the public school Eastview that her childhood friends and some neighbors attend. At school, she is best friends with another wealthy girl who acts snobbish and wealth is important to her - Leah, she is also white. Similar to Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give this book starts with Sasha giving her childhood friend Ricardo a ride and then seeing him participating in a protest for #JusticeforMitchell. Sasha decides to do some research and learns he was shot by a white policeman and he wasn...

Review: Six Angry Girls - Adrienne Kisner - August 2020 Lately, I have been reading a lot more YA books as I go through different phases with my reading. I wasn't sure what to expect with Six Angry Girls but I found myself loving this book as it talked about Social Justice and Feminism. The book starts with one of the main girls Raina being dumped by her long-time boyfriend and so she writes a letter to an Agony Aunt who tells her to get a hobby like knitting. She then joins an LYC - Local Yarn Club and finds comfort in knitting and these knitters are very proactive in the community with activism via knitting things like genitals and body parts etc. They have lots of laughs too which I loved. Another one of the Six - Millie has always been part of the local Mock Court Trial club at the school - she is the only girl in the team and now has been dropped from the group as the boys have overthrown her, it also seems wherever she goes, the male sex just wants to walk...