Black Author for the Girlies! 💅🏾

Remember reading all those books, and the nostalgic girlies tv shows when younger and always imagining to see someone that looks like you or you as main characters. Pretty little liars, gossip girl, dynasty, Richese (one of the best modern rich African family drama in London and NY)…. Or remember those adult passionate and mysterious dramatic stories ? Yes well we have some for us melanated woman!

- Where Sleeping girls lies :This book it’s about Sade, a teenage girl starting at a new boarding school. She recently lost her father and the author alludes that she may be running from some dark secrets in her past. The day after she arrives to school, her new roommate goes missing while getting thru this academy…

- Tender Beast : are you ready for some twist and turn, family drama? this book is pretty complex, it will have run through a psychological thrillers story with cults and a serial killer. The family dynamics are complicate, all the siblings have to face obstacles that puts them against each other the main character tries to seem perfect and happy on the outside while she is tormented on the inside. She was raised to be the family leader and after her mother death she was asked to protect her brother whom has dark secrets. Secrets that put him first on a list of suspects regarding a murder that happens at the school their mothers funded.

- Ace of Spade : This book is giving me a bit of Pretty Little Things vibes. The book is about two black students, Devon and Chiamaka, who are being targeted by an anonymous bully that goes by the name 'Aces. ' This bully exposes their deep and disturbing secrets to the entire body of Niveus Academy, an elite private high school, through texts

- A Song of Wraith and Ruin: Karina Alahari is the princess of Ziran, she lost her sister and father already. But When her mother, the Sultana is assassinated, Karina does not want to carry the burden of rulings and looks for a way to resurrect her mother for which will involve dark magic and a human sacrifice; the winner of Solstasia festival. Malik just wanted to be free from the war, he saw that into the Solstasia festival in the city. During his attempt a evil spirit kidnaps his sister and as payment into the city, Malik makes a deal to kill Karina, Princess of Ziran, for Nadia’s freedom. The first in a fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other to resurrects and get their family members back despite their growing attraction.

- Akata Witch : Although 12-year-old Sunny is Nigerian, she was born in America, and her Nigerian classmates see her as an outsider. Worse, she's an albino, an obvious target for bullies and suspected of being a ghost or a witch. Things change, however, when she has a vision of impending nuclear war.

-Love Radio : When the romantic DJ that he dishes out advice to the brokenhearted on Love radio, meets the ambitious writer, sparks fly. Prince is smitten, but Dani's not looking to get derailed. She is focused on figuring out her writer block, so she gives Prince just three dates to convince her that he's worth falling for.

Three dates for the love expert to take his own advice, and just maybe change two lives forever

- Instruction for Dancing : In this romantic page-turner Evie has the power to see other people's romantic fates. She doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs on an ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart, eventually. But what will happen when she finally sees her own?

-Sometime I Trip on How Happy We Could Be: (I couldn’t have put it better than this review !) Pop culture is the Pandora’s Box of our lives. Racism, wealth, poverty, beauty, inclusion, exclusion, and hope -- all of these intractable and unavoidable features course through the media we consume. Examining pop culture’s impact on her life, Nichole Perkins takes readers on a rollicking trip through the last twenty years of music, media and the internet from the perspective of one southern Black woman. She explores her experience with mental illness and how the TV series Frasier served as a crutch, how her role as mistress led her to certain internet message boards that prepared her for current day social media, and what it means to figure out desire and sexuality and Prince in a world where marriage is the only acceptable goal for women. Combining her sharp wit, stellar pop culture sensibility, and trademark spirited storytelling, Nichole boldly tackles the damage done to women, especially Black women, by society’s failure to confront the myths and misogyny at its heart, and her efforts to stop the various cycles that limit confidence within herself. By using her own life and loves as a unique vantage point, Nichole humorously and powerfully illuminates how to take the best pop culture has to offer and discard the harmful bits, offering a mirror into our own lives.

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