Jen's Book Reviews

Title: 52 Weeks A Party Of One  Author: Bianca Pensy Aba  Release date: 23 April 2025 First of all, thank you so much to coloredpagesbt  on Instagram, for having be on this book tour.  Now, Let’s talk about a book that just smacks you with betrayal right from page one. Aisha, our lead, doesn’t do things by halves, including her New Year’s meltdown. She’s at a party, ringing in the New Year with her boyfriend and best friend—until she catches the two of them together. No warning, no slow build-up—just betrayal, raw and upfront. This is the kind of betrayal that could mess with anyone’s trust, let alone a woman as outspoken as Aisha, who typically isn’t one to hold back. But instead of an explosive reaction, Aisha does something different; she packs her bags and heads off to Dallas, seeking an escape from both Denver and the people who hurt her. Now, the move doesn’t magically fix anything (because when does it ever?). Aisha has a laundry list of emotional baggage: a tense relationship w

  Title: Immortal Author:  Sue Lynn Tan Number of Pages: 464 Publishing Date: 7 January 2025 Genre:  Fantasy Romance, Mythology, Historical Fiction, Asian Literature, Re-telling, Young-Adult Synopsis: “What the gods did not give us, I would take.” As the heir to Tianxia, Liyen knows she must ascend the throne and renew her kingdom’s pledge to serve the immortals who once protected them from a vicious enemy. But when she is poisoned, Liyen’s grandfather steals an enchanted lotus to save her life. Enraged at his betrayal, the immortal queen commands the powerful God of War to attack Tianxia. Upon her grandfather’s death, Liyen ascends a precarious throne, vowing to end her kingdom’s obligation to the immortals. When she is summoned to the Immortal Realm, she seizes the opportunity to learn their secrets and to form a tenuous alliance to safeguard her people, all with the one she should fear and mistrust the most: the ruthless God of War. As they are drawn together, a treacherous attracti