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I adored this book! 

I really enjoy middle grade books and I absolutely love a middle grade book that has folklore and folktales included in it. 

I really enjoyed the main characters development and struggle, as well as her realistic reactions and portrayal. I will definitely be looking for more book by Lisa Stringfellow!

This was such an enjoyable read!
I loved everything about this from the main character, to the world building, to the relationships built and everything in between.I can't wait to read the second installment in this series and explore more with Hasani.
Plus the cover of this book is beautiful!

I have had this book on my "to read" list for so long and I was severely disappointed in it once I finally read it.

This book is literally a book of ramblings. It is full of such crap and garbage. I'm confused how anyone could actually enjoy this pile of garbage.
I was expecting so much more from this and it turns out it is literally jus ramblings of a possibly mad man.

If this has been on your "to read" list, please just skip this one. It is not worth it.

This book is everything I want a beginner book to be. I enjoyed the content and am very appreciate of how inclusive this is.

If you are looking for a witchy book that covers a wide range of information, is extremely informative, and inclusive, look no further, this is the book for you!

This book has reminded of so many things I have been lax about lately and has helped jump start my journey again. It has also given me new things to look into.

I would definitely recommend this book!

I thought I read the worst book in my life a few years ago up until I picked this bad boy up. This is literally the worst book I have ever read. I do not have the energy to go into detail about just how much is wrong with this book so I will just list some things.

1. This book does not know what genre it is, it is listed as romance and new adult, it is neither. It is a confusing erotica drama if anything.

2. The main women character, Victoria, has no substance, all she talks about is her love for her boyfriend, her love for the other main character, and how much she worships the ground they walk on. Our first introduction into her mind is a very abrupt sex scene where she talks about how much she basically worships her boyfriend. This book is not kind to women at all, the author clearly thinks women exist for the pleasure of men and nothing else based on this book.

3. We never learn Victoria's mother in laws name, it could have at very least been said once, the fact that she literally has no name is appalling.

4. The situations and the actions of the two main characters is very juvenile, this book would have been much more suited for a high school setting considering the maturity level of the main characters.

5. Literally not one situation in this book was believable.

6. The author of this books thinks that striper = sex worker and that stripers are willing to go home with and sleep with anybody for free! Absolutely not, that is not the real world, you can't just go to strip club abd have your pick of women to take home! This reads more like a sex fantasy than an actual novel.

7. Scenes suddenly stop and drop off like we are in a TV show. Scenes where important things are happening will literally just stop, but somehow it never happens during one of the MANY sex scenes in this book. Like seriously, just label this book as erotic fantasy and call it day.

8. When ever an important conversation is being had, we don't get to hear any of it. I'm adlibbing but, example "I finally got the chance to say everything I wanted and she started to cry". Cool can we as the reader know what was said? It's lazy writing, I as the reader want to know what was said, I shouldn't have to guess, but we get ALL the dialogue for the sex scenes, just saying.

9. The main characters dialogue is bizarre and not believable.

10. The main man character Hendrix, has a twin sister we know nothing about, and the other sister (the darker one I might add) is a basically an angry know it all. How original, making the dark older sister a villain.

11. The actual villain of the story, Hershey (yes, that's actually his name), is the most textbook flat villain you can imagine.

12. The main character has a job but we don't know what it is. The genre should have been mystery since there so much we don't know lol.

13. Both main characters start off in school, then school becomes something that is never mention and then it is reintroduced as a plot device when they break up. This book is lacking consistency.

14. It's highly confusing why Victoria having children is even a part of this book, it would make so much more sense if she didn't have children considering she seems to barely think about them. The book would have made much more sense if they weren't a part of it honestly.

I would say skip this one unless you enjoy women being treated a objects of pleasure for men with no substance, surprise sex scenes that come out of nowhere, and the mystery of not being able to know what is being said when serious conversations are being had.

I really enjoyed this book, I think everyone should read this. I'm happy that I decided to give this one a read~

I enjoy reading case study books and this one did not disappoint.
There were very interesting case studies and I enjoyed the entire read.

I greatly enjoyed this short story collection.

Absolutely adorable read.

Heartbreaking and beautiful.
Not my usual genre but I gave it try and I'm glad I did. This a beautiful book about humans, human nature, and home.

Favorite quote:
""...what it’s like just before you’re born. Babies can hear their mother’s voices, they get distressed, they feel pain, even in their mother’s stomach. They turn towards the light, like all of us. The womb, though, is the only world they have ever known. They can see all of it, the beginning and the end, and of course, they think there is nothing else. Can’t even conceive of it.

So, being born, being dragged out into the cold, into the searing lights and all the noise, must feel like dying – like their whole world disappearing along with every single thing they ever knew. Maybe dying is like that too; none of us know what’s out there. But we’ve experienced something a little like it already. Being born was the best thing that ever happened to us. The world is bigger and more beautiful than we ever could have imagined and on the other side of it there were people we’d never met who already love us. They’ve been excited. They’ve been waiting.’"