Last month I read another Booktok favorite, Twisted Love by Ana Huang, a new adult romance novel where we follow Ava Chen and Alex Volkov. Ava Chen is a photographer and has a cheerful personality. Her brother, Josh, lives next door and is a medicine student. When Josh goes away for a year he asks Alex to look...
A Magic Steeped in Poison is the first book in the The Book of Tea Series written by Judy I. Lin. This young adult fantasy is inspired by Chinese mythology and has a unique magic system based on the art of tea brewing. I like how the type of tea as well as the preparation affect the magic.
An endearing and touching story of a houseplant starting to adjust to his new life outside Garden Place. You read more about the daily life of a house plant and the dramatic turns life can take. The interactions and dynamics of the plant with his humans were written beautifully. It is a great work of anthropomorphism.