Massive Wrap Up | Reviewing ALL The Books!

The art was okay. The story line was okay. It's not as good as the Judge Kim books, so I only ended up giving this one three stars.

Illustrations really made this one for me. I gave it four stars. The only thing that I wish they would have talked about a little bit more in this one was actually being a DACA recipient

This book was hilarious. It was a four-star read for me.

It was beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful. The writing, the storytelling, the character development, the plot development, and just bringing everything to this wholesome and sweet conclusion after that girl had been through so much.

This is a very fast-paced book. It's a lot in it. There are very interesting ways that Ponti decides to introduce the characters and they all have code names.

And so, I think that there are some There are some hard moments in this, but there are also some like really fun and warming charming moments that I'm really enjoying. So, I'm I'm loving that.

It's a kids court and they all work together to solve cases and to hold a kind of a trial of whoever is responsible for certain incidents happening, which is it's really, really cute and really teaches kids about how the justice system works in the most simplistic ways. And I loved that the artwork was really, really engaging.

This has got to be the roughest start to a series I've read in a long time. I am currently reading book number two, which I'll talk about in a little while, but I am currently reading book number two, and it's it's infinitely stronger, and I'm only about 80 or 90 pages into that one, and it's infinitely stronger and better than this one. I gave this one three stars.

I think Brandon Mull really found his footing with the second book cuz even the writing and the pacing of that one is better. Like, I like to sit down and actually read Fablehaven, I mean, the you know, the second Fablehaven book, where this one I was like, "Oh, jeez."

And so, that's what I struggled with this book, but it still was really, really good, and I really connected to Henry as a character. I think that emotionally, like I was invested in this book, even if I thought plotting-wise it wasn't as strong as it could have been, which is why I still ended up giving it four stars.

I love the writing in this. I love Kelly Yang. I ended up giving this one four stars.

And I gave this one four stars, y'all. It was cute.

This was an okay book. I ended up giving it three stars. At this point, I do feel as though it's a little on the dated side.

It is one of the most beautiful picture books that I've read. I love the storytelling. I love the rhymes.

But, I love that they were that there was that balance there, and that the information was short, but also comprehensive. The illustrations were absolutely gorgeous. There's some great back matter in this one, and I ended up giving it four out of five stars.

I did like that this book forces the reader to become used to Caribbean dialect. I'm not sure cuz there's no specific I guess area that is identified in this, but from a person who has Jamaican family, Jamaican heritage, and roots, like whenever I see a book that is specifically in a Caribbean dialect, I really appreciate it because it forces the reader to adjust instead of the author adjusting for the reader, which I think makes the reader work to appreciate a different culture outside of their own.

Now that I've read this one, I really do need to go back and read Crystal's first book which Take Back the Block because her writing is spectacular and this book was amazing. Really enjoyed it.

And just being able to voice that and stand up for herself, it was I love this book. It was beautiful. I loved it.

And the artwork in this one is also very, very beautiful. And extremely detailed. I loved it.

Then we get to the exploration of grief in this book and it is phenomenal. So, Reha's mom does end up getting cancer and it is really, really tough on her.

It is one of my favorite YA contemporary romances, and so it makes me really, really excited to pick up more books by her.

Roll Call, which is the first book in the Dungeons and Dragons series by Molly Knox Ostertag, which was chef's kiss, absolutely delightful.

I was trying to find more espionage spy books cuz I ended up reading Stuart Gibbs' Spy School and really enjoyed that one.

Star the Elephant, which was so cute. It's so cute.

I still prefer Yellow Wife over this one, but I thought it was a very solid and well-written historical fiction book. I ended up giving this one four stars.

And like I said, there's no perfect ending to this, but it was beautiful storytelling. I loved how much I learned in reading this one, and I'm really looking forward to picking Christine Day up again.

I really, really enjoyed it. It was very, very detailed. It felt like we were literally being walked step by step of everything that occurred from the beginning to the very end of that 51-day siege, and it was just I hate to say it, but it was like watching a film, like watching a documentary while reading this book.

The reason why I gave this one three stars y'all is because it was a slog to get through this book and I always say when it comes to middle grade I know that I'm not the intended audience so there could be a middle grade reader who really enjoys this but you know can appreciate the character development more than I can and I just this is not what I look for when it comes to historical fiction not saying that it has to be all action but the writing just did not captivate me enough at all it was very just slow it was just kind of boring to be quite honest

This is the same author of Yellow Wife which I read in February of 2021 and absolutely loved. Like, loved it. It was super dark, a lot of content warnings.