Publisher: Salaam Reads / Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers

ARC Review:  The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim

ARC Review: The Love Match by Priyanka Taslim

Blurb: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before meets Pride and Prejudice in this delightful and heartfelt rom-com about a Bangladeshi American teen whose meddling mother arranges a match to secure their family’s financial security—just as she’s falling in love with someone else. Zahra Khan is basically Bangladeshi royalty, but being a princess doesn’t pay the bills in […]

Posted January 2, 2023 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 8 Comments
ARC Review: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

ARC Review: Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf

Blurb: They Wish They Were Us meets The Queen’s Gambit in the world of competitive Scrabble when a teen girl is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages. CATALYST13 pointsnoun: a person or thing that precipitates an event […]

Posted April 21, 2022 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 4 Comments