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V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Book Review

Addie LaRue lives in seventeen hundreds’ France, with a life all planned out. Grow up, marry, raise children, die. Not many people in her village even dream of seeing a city, let alone Paris, or the world. But Addie wants to live. She wants to discover the world, she wants to see palaces and beaches and exotic animals, something both her parents find mad and dangerous. When she is forced into a marriage she does not want, she does the one thing she is told never to do. She prays to the gods who answer after dark.
She makes the darkness an offer. she will give it her soul in return for time and freedom. But he refuses. Every deal needs a deadline. So she makes one. She tells him he can have her soul when she…

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With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Book Review

With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo Book Review
Emoni is a seventeen-year-old mother who lives with her grandmother in Fairhill and has a gift and passion for cooking. She can make anyone’s day better just with a bite of her food. When senior year starts, Emoni is at a crossroads for both her present and future. A new elective is starting at her school; culinary arts. But the bills are piling and she barely has enough time for her job, homework, and Babygirl as it is. Her heart longs for the kitchen but her mind is screaming at her about all the responsibilities she has. This school year, Emoni’s life will be shaped one way or another.

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The Turn of the Key By Ruth Ware Book Review

We follow a British nanny who is hired to work for a family in the Scottish highlands in an isolated estate with a smart house. The whole book is a group of letters she is writing from jail to her solicitor after she has been accused of murdering one of the children. She recounts in detail everything from the interview to the night of the murder in hopes of understanding what happened. From the many strange incidents to the history of the place and the so-called ghosts and the house malfunctioning over and over. The whole book has a gothic air to it and makes you wonder if ghosts could really be responsible for everything that is going on.

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