I did enjoy this alternative origin story of Catwoman. It is fairly dark (domestic abuse, animal death, potential cults) but you also feel the strength of Selina Kyle. I probably would have given this a four or five but I didn't like the ending. I felt like she gave up on Rosie too suddenly. I thought she would have fought harder. Still better than Mera: Tidebreaker.

I enjoyed this one, which makes kids move (and trade their shoes and socks)

I thought this book was pretty good, although a little clean. Everyone seems to look like a model. Interesting choice to tell it from a building's perspective, although I'm not entirely sure that works.

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I enjoyed this audiobook. If you want something that is unapologetically fine with all consenting relationships and all genders set in a space version of King Arthur, than this is for you. I enjoyed reading the Mercer corporation, which I have chosen to think of as Amazon in my head. It's probably Amazon's dream for the future. The characters are fairly easy to keep track of, and although none are deeply developed, it's still enough to tell each apart and pick favorites.

Not my favorite thing I've ever read. It felt predictable to me, like it had a regular storyline that I've read a bunch of times before, just insert photography instead of something else. Maybe for hardcore shojo fans it will appeal, but not for me.

Much more my style than the last one I read: gambling grandfather, choosing your own path rather than the ones presented to you, help from a mysterious source. I liked this one a lot.

Not my favorite. Felt more like a series of vignettes rather than a cohesive story and it wasn't one I was particularly interested in. OHora's illustrations are wonderful though.

I did not care for this one, but the kids I read it to enjoyed it. I think it would work better in a one-on-one situation than a storytime.

I loved this one, just as I loved Acevedo's previous book. Emoni hasn't had it easy, with her decision to have Baby Girl at 14, not stay with Tyrone (the baby's father), to hold down a job and stay in school full-time. She manages though, keeping most people at a distance beyond her grandmother and her friend Angelica (Jelly). One thing that helps keep her sane is cooking, and she's very good at it. It's senior year, and she needs to decide if she'll reach for her culinary dreams by taking an elective and applying to college, or stay where she is and work in a kitchen.

Acevedo does such a great job of creating interesting people for her books, complicated and understandable and real. In this one, you also feel the love for Philadelphia coming through. I loved everything about it.

This is a sweet romance, although I found the exploration of the two people in the relationship more interesting than their relationship itself. It's billed as an "enemies to lovers", although to me it was more like "one-sided grudge to lovers." Rachel is tough, on herself and others, and she has strong beliefs about how the world is going to treat her and how to react. She has the chops to become a good director talent-wise, but maybe not the disposition yet. Sana has lived a life of being as perfect as she can to ease tension between her mom and grandparents, but the cracks are starting to show. She's got all the things she is supposed to want to have, but there's something different that is what she actually wants.

One thing I did like about this story is that sexuality isn't really an issue. There are a few microaggressions, but it's not a problem novel in that sense. I also love the insight into two cultures that I am not a part of, Jewish Mexican, and Persian/Indian. I did like the changes the girls brought out in each other, and the character of Diesel, but I thought the ending was a bit unrealistic.