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Zoulfa did such a great job building us a story about loving and losing home. I was not ready for this book but it was so so good.

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Okay I had no idea what I was in for when I picked up this book and it was way more gorey than anticipated. It's really great though! Just be aware when heading into this one! We love fighting back and we love being realistic about how that might forever change us

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I love joan he and this is no exception. though it was like WAY different than I thought it would be joan is amazing

showstopping, haunting, beautiful, mournful

Beautiful, stunning, loved the social commentary being interwoven with witches. It's just speculative enough where the entire novel feels like we could so easily slip back into laws like this. Especially in the world where we live today.

I've had Lakewood on my list for quite some time and I think now I'm going to have to visit my backlog and read it.

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i LOVE suzanne park her books are SO CUTE. I'm so happy she has a Christmas novel this is so fun i can't wait to have the perfect Christmas book to reread this year!!

Validating, heartwarming, sweet, honest, romantic, light, fun

Lunar Love is a book I’ve been excited about since the moment I knew it was coming out. If you know me at all you know that I’m a big advocate for better mixed race representation in media because it’s personal to me. It’s far too often that our stories are written by someone else and our mixed identity is used as a tool for the author to make some comment about race.

To them, sometimes we are used as proof that racism no longer exists and sometimes we are said to be abominations or freaks of nature for just existing. But it’s far more rare and far more special when someone who understands that we are just people doing our best when the world pushes such contradictory expectations onto us. Someone like Lauren.

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wow this book had no right to make me absolutely sob in traffic on a week day in the middle of the day

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i loved the blend of cultures in a multicultural family in this. This book managed to tackle so many things all in one. I love when books blend together multicultural magic with social commentary. It's so deeply real to the world we live in today and I can't wait to see more of it. River Woman, River Demon really kept me guessing and captivated by the magic.

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