Hani and Ishu’s Guide to Fake Dating Book Review

Summary

When Humaira “Hani” Khan comes out to her friends as bisexual, they give her the exact reaction she feared, invaliding her identity because she’s never dated girls before. So to get her friends to accept her, Hani enters into a mutually beneficial pact to pretend to date Ishita “Ishu” Dey, the academic overachiever who is the complete opposite of Hani. Ishu needs to win the head girl election and prove to her parents that she’s on track to become the doctor her parents wanted her sister to be, and she can’t do it without Hani’s help and social connections.

Last Night at the Telegraph Club Book Review

Summary

It’s 1954, and seventeen-year-old Lily Hu lives in uncertain times. Amid the Red Scare threatening Chinese-Americans, the early beginnings of the Space Race, and San Francisco’s lesbian nightlife scene, Lily is full of unanswered questions about herself and the future. With the help of her classmate and friend Kathleen Miller, she searches for answers in the lesbian bar The Telegraph Club.

I Wish You All the Best Book Review

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Ben’s life is completely upended after their parents kick them out after they come out to them as non-binary. With no other options, Ben turns to their long-lost sister for help. Starting a new school, dealing with anxiety, a new home and visiting a new therapist is a lot, but there is one bright spot: Nathan.

Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know Book Review

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Khayyam is a seventeen-year-old aspiring art historian, and in Paris for the summer. Back home her academic and romantic lives are in shambles, and Khayyam is certain her life as she knows it is being pulled out from under her, including her chances at getting into her dream college and her boyfriend – not that he’s ever described himself that way – Zaid. But all that changes when she meets charming Alexandre, the descendant of the famous writer Alexandre Dumas – the French writer who just happens to be the subject of her academic paper that judges so viciously debunked.

Mooncakes Book Review

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Nova Huang is a teenage witch who loans books of spells from her grandmothers’ bookshop. Tam Lang is a werewolf who has been on the run from a cult trying to possess them with a demon. When Nova hears reports of a white wolf in the forest, she goes to investigate, only to find her childhood crush Tam has returned.

Perfect on Paper Book Review

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Darcy has a secret, and it’s a big one. She runs locker 89, the locker where anyone in the school can drop a letter with their relationship problems and ten dollars and receive an anonymous email with relationship advice that boasts a 95% success rate. Darcy has never been caught, at least that is until her classmate Brougham catches her in the act of retrieving letters. However, her secret is safe with him. The only catch is that she has to help him get his ex-girlfriend back.

Charming as a Verb Book Review

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Henri Haltiwanger is NYC high school senior at a prestigious private school with big dreams. More specifically, big dreams of Columbia University, the school he desperately wants to attend. Known for his signature smile and for being charming with a capital c, Henri knows that acing his interview is the key to his acceptance. But when that doesn’t go according to plan, he winds up in what he hopes will be a mutually beneficial partnership with his intense neighbour and classmate Corinne Troy, the only person he can’t charm.

You Should See Me in a Crown Book Review

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Liz Lighty is practically the polar opposite of prom queen in her small Indiana town. Liz has never dreamed of running for prom queen and is sure that she’s too Black, poor or awkward to ever be in the popular social circles needed to win. Not that Liz even wants to run. That is until she doesn’t get her orchestra scholarship to the prestigious university she dreams of attending, and needs the scholarship that comes with the title.

Her Royal Highness Book Review

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After being dumped by her kind-of-not-really-girlfriend, Millie decides to take the plunge and accept her scholarship to the prestigious Scottish boarding school of her dreams, and spend her senior year of high school in the highlands. However, upon arrival, the high-class world that awaits Millie is more than she ever anticipated. Especially because her roommate is the princess of Scotland.

Felix Ever After Book Review

Summary

Felix Love is a young trans artist at a prestigious New York City art school who dreams of going to Brown. However, despite his close friendships he often finds himself feeling lonely and wondering how everyone else finds it so easy to find love and wishes for once it was him who got to have a happily ever after.