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Things My Mother Left Me || By Pulane Mlilo Mpondo
Year of Publication: 2022 Genre: Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Disclaimer: This book was sent to me by Blackbird Books for review purposes. I prefer to break up my short story reviews into the various stories on offer in order to give a sense of what each story is about. My overall rating of this book is…
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The Atlas Paradox || By Olivie Blake
Year of Publication: 2022 Genre: Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.75 Disclaimer: This book was sent to me by Wordsworth Books for review purposes. Well excuse me Ms Olivie Blake ma’m! Ma’m!? Let me just say off the bat that I’m utterly, devastatingly shattered that book 3 is only coming out in January 2024. I wept. Let’s chat…
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Turning Tables || By Alice Takawira
Year of Publication: 2022 Genre: Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Disclaimer: This book was sent to me by the Author for review purposes. In this slow-burn romance thriller, American-based Zimbabwean debut author, Alice Takawira takes us on a journey with Maita who ends up in a love triangle with Ade and Chris; two men who could not…
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The Atlas Six || By Olivie Blake
Year of Publication: 2022 Genre: Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Disclaimer: This book was sent to me by Wordsworth Books for review purposes. This is one of those wonderful stories that leave you clueless as to which part you should tell when asked how the book was. If my rating is anything to go by, then it…
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A Brush With Love || By Mazey Eddings
Year of Publication: 2022 Genre: Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Disclaimer: This book was sent to me by Wordsworth Books for review purposes. As you may well know, I started flexing my romance-genre muscle last year; and man, all the cute things I’ve come across! Why didn’t y’all say!!? I present to you, cute thing number ……
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Dead But Breathing
By Vuvu Vena Sarah don’t live here no more I lost her on the road from teenager to 20 something She kept giving herself to every man that Looked her way And eventually depleted her reservoir Sarah don’t live here no moreBut I remember how she was Before she up and left In her prime…
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Just As I Am || By Cicely Tyson
Year of Publication: 2021 Genre: Memoir Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Disclaimer: This book was sent to me by Jonathan Ball Publishers for review purposes. Oh Ms Cicely! What a life. I absolutely enjoyed this autobiography – even more so because I accompanied it with the audio version which is narrated by Ms Cicely herself. It felt like…
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Wahala || By Nikki May
Year of Publication: 2022 Genre: Fiction Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Disclaimer; This book was sent to me by Penguin South Africa for review purposes. In this debut by Nikki May we explore the crumbling of what on the surface seems to be a solid relationship between 3 mixed-race women of Nigerian heritage living in London. The women,…
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February 2022 || I Read 6 Books
February was a balancing month for me, I hit 10 books by the 2nd month which put me on track with the 5 books a month goal, so generally I was amped. My thoughts on these are up on my YouTube channel, I’ll share the link at the end, however, here’s a short review on…
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Whore
By Vuvu Vena I was a whore for a love I never got Open legs Some would believe that my heart is situated Between my thighs I let you lay me on lay-by And on your side of the bed all I heard Were snores and sweet nothings On the floor, dirty drawers and sweaty…