Em is confused about a lot of things: who she is, what she wants, how she’s going to pass Alchemy when she’s awful at it. The one thing she’s not…
Category: book reviews
This is where you will be able to find all of the book reviews I’ve written here at CandidCeillie!
Monday Mini Reviews: July 23
Hi, friends! It's uh, been a while. The last review I posted was The Book of M at the beginning of the month. I've been working on my book and all…
Review: The Book of M by Peng Shepherd
In The Book of M, One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears—an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like…
Review: Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow
Find the confidence to rock out to your own beat in Drum Roll, Please. Melly only joined the school band because her best friend, Olivia, begged her to. But to…
Review: Final Draft by Riley Redgate
The only sort of risk 18-year-old Laila Piedra enjoys in Final Draft is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and…
Review: Revenant Gun by Yoon Ha Lee
When Shuos Jedao wakes up for the first time in Revenant Gun, several things go wrong. His few memories tell him that he's a seventeen-year-old cadet-- but his body belongs…
Review: The House that Lou Built by Mae Respicio
Lou Bulosan-Nelson is going to build her dream in The House that Lou Built. She shares a room with her mom in her grandmother's house in San Francisco, and longs…
Review: Bruja Born by Zoraida Córdova
Lula Mortiz feels like an outsider in Bruja Born. Her sister's newfound Encantrix powers have wounded her in ways that Lula's bruja healing powers can't fix, and she longs for…
Review: The Art of French Kissing by Brianna Shrum
With the best culinary school in the country on the line in The Art of French Kissing, Carter Lane needs to get her mind back to beating the competition, not…
Review: Furyborn by Claire Legrand
When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic in Furyborn. The…
Review: Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
Adèle has only one goal in Baker Thief: catch the purple-haired thief who broke into her home and stole her exocore, thus proving herself to her new police team. Little…
Review: My So-Called Bollywood Life by Nisha Sharma
Winnie Mehta was never really convinced that Raj was her soulmate, but their love was written in the stars in My So-Called Bollywood Life. Literally, a pandit predicted Winnie would…
Review: Tone of Voice by Kaia Sønderby
At the beginning of Tone of Voice, Xandri Corelel has spent six months living among the Ongkoarrat after her unceremonious firing from the crew of the Carpathia, and though she…
Review: Clara Voyant by Rachelle Delaney
Clara can't believe her no-nonsense grandmother has just up and moved to Florida, leaving Clara and her mother on their own for the first time. This means her mother can…
Review: The Way You Make Me Feel by Maurene Goo
In The Way You Make Me Feel, Clara Shin lives for pranks and disruption. When she takes one joke too far, her dad sentences her to a summer working on…