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After Life Review

Exploring the afterlife and themes of grief and guilt, ‘After Life’ is a generally disappointing read. Ben Wilkinson’s seemingly perfect life has fallen apart. His former high school sweetheart needs him to finalize their divorce so she can move on with her new boyfriend, he’s so caught up in his freelancing that he’s been neglecting his only daughter, and then suddenly, Ben is dead. We follow…

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About Joycelyn!

Hi! My name is Joycelyn! I'm currently studying Film & TV with a minor in Playwriting at Howard University in Washington, DC. I love reading and writing and I've always been a big bookworm! I have been writing ARC reviews on BookSirens for over 2 years now as well as ReedsyDiscovery!

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Dreamers Review

Such a beautiful story about grief, queer love, and acceptance. Dreamers tells the story of many teens coming out and first love journey. Throughout the story, we follow the coming out journey of Leo Torres, who after realizing his trans identity over the summer break is determined to start the new school year with his new name and pronouns. With people finding out at school, Leo and his best…

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Going Off-Script (Landon's Story) Review

This is a cute story. The romance felt like a subplot to me, which is fine but I was under the impression that the talent show would be a subplot and the romance would be the main part of the story. I really enjoyed all of the characters, except for Savannah. While she was definitely written as a “bad guy” or the person you’re supposed to root against, she also seemed to get away with everything…