BlackOut By Various Authors

Authors: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon Book Stats  Stars: 3.5 Stars Start Date : 02/11/24 Ending Date: 02/16/24 Genre: YA Contemporary Romance Form: Hardback Book/ Audiobook Page Count: 256 Publishing Date: 06/22/21 Point of View: 1st Person ,Dual POV's Setting: New York City and Brooklyn GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4096214500 StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/8cebab75-b6f1-4181-91f8-34a679506cee BlackOut is a set of…

Bright Red Fruit by Safia Elhillo

Book Stats  Stars: 4.5 Stars Start Date : 01/21/24 Ending Date: 02/02/24 Genre: YA Contemporary Poetry In-Verse Coming of Age Form:  Digital E-Arc Page Count: 384 Publishing Date: 02/06/24 Point of View: 1st Person In Verse Setting: Washington DC GoodReads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5953888696 StoryGraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2bed7643-e8f2-4f21-8b8d-f6f623245fad?redirect=true Thank you Netgalley for the E-Arc in exchange for a review. Bright Red Fruit is a story about a…

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white.…

A Blade So Black by L.L. McKinney

The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a…

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

Camino Rios lives for the summers when her father visits her in the Dominican Republic. But this time, on the day when his plane is supposed to land, Camino arrives at the airport to see crowds of crying people… In New York City, Yahaira Rios is called to the principal’s office, where her mother is…

Feature Post: Black and Disverse Books Matter: A perspective and rec List

Hello Everyone! I hope everyone is going well in this crazy year which going down as one of the crazy’s years I have ever witness in my 30 years of living. I though 2016 was wild but this year takes the cake. So this was something I wanted to do for a while but never…