RAYO READS

2023 IN BOOKS 2023 has been great, I started reading and writing reviews actively this year (mini blog, instagram and facebook) and it has been fun so far, looking forward to another year filled with books! Check out all the books I read in 2023: 1. ARSENIC AND ADOBO BY MIA P MANANSALA 2. 138 DATES BY REBEKAH CAMPBELL 3. BLACK GIRLS MUST DIE EXHAUSTED BY JAYNE ALLEN 4. BLACK GIRLS MUST BE MAGIC BY JAYNE ALLEN 5. 6. DATING DR. DIL BY NISHA SHARMA 7. DIAL A FOR AUNTIES BY JESSE Q SUTANTO 8. FOUR AUNTIES AND A WEDDING BY JESSE Q SUTANTO 9. HOOK, LINE AND SINKER BY TESSA BAILEY 10. LOVE MARRIAGE BY MONICA ALI 11. MR WRONG NUMBER BY LYNN PAINTER 12. MY MECHANICAL ROMANCE BY ALEXENE FAROL FOLLMUTH 13. NEARLY ALL THE MEN IN LAGOS ARE MAD BY DAMILARE KUKU 14. PARTY OF TWO BY JASMINE GUILLORY 15. QUEENIE BY CANDICE C WILLIAMS 16. ROYAL HOLIDAY BY JASMINE GUILLORY 17. SMART MONEY WOMAN BY ARESE UGWU 18. SOLITARE BY ALICE OSEMAN 19. THE HATING GAME

📚 BOOK TITLE: LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY  📚 AUTHOR: BONNIE GARMUS  📚 THOUGHTS&OPINIONS: This book has been on my TBR for the longest time and I finally picked it up 2 days ago and OMG  this book is good, a lot of laughs here and there😄 A very beautiful story of love, family, friendships and CHEMISTRY!! Despite some of the men in this book being a$$holes, I loved how ELIZABETH always put them in their place. Who doesn't love a story about women 🤷🏽‍♀️ I loved the dog commentary so much🥰 as you would guess Six-Thirty is my favorite character ❤❤, then Elizabeth  and then her Daughter Mad. 📚 RATINGS: ⭐⭐⭐⭐. 5 (4/5 STARS)

📚 BOOK TITLE: LEGACY   📚 AUTHOR: ANNA RASHBROOK  📚 PUB DATE: JANUARY 12TH 2024 📚 GENRE:  CHRISTAIN FICTION|| WOMEN'S FICTION|| FAMILY DRAMA 📚 THOUGHTS&OPINIONS: I want to thank the entire booksirens crew, the author and publisher for granting my request to read this book for FREE  and to drop my very honest review. I loved that this book is a CHRISTIAN BOOK and we dont usually have more of Christian books. At first I couldn't get into the book cos they were so many characters some of which I can't even remember their names, but I continued regardless. There were alot of twists (like a lot so get ready for that) and even love( which I didn't expect). Forgiveness and letting go to me were the main theme of this story, the importance of forgiveness and letting go can't be overemphasized!! This book was okay for me, but that wouldn't stop me from recommending it so if you love women's Fiction, Christain Fiction I will suggest you add

📚 BOOK TITLE: THE WEDDING DATE  📚 AUTHOR : JASMINE GUILLORY  📚 GENRE: ROMANCE  📚 THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  I loved the ending and how Alexa and Drew figured out what to do and decided to give their relationship a chance❤❤ who doesn't love a good love story 😄 If you liked this book, I will recommend you read PARTY OF TWO BY JASMINE GUILLORY; Olivia's love story 😄 📚RATINGS:  ⭐⭐/5 STARS (2/5)

📚 BOOK TITLE:   THE CURIOUS SECRETS OF YESTERDAY  📚 AUTHOR: NAMRATA PATEL  📚 PUB DATE: 11 June 2024  📚THOUGHTS&OPINIONS: I like books about multigenerations;  there are so insightful( it's like being taken on a ride full of therapy sessions 😄) TULSI   is an average Gupta daughter who is sick and tired of being micromanaged at every instance. Her Grandmother and mother is trying to pass her the " spice healer"  mantle that she doesn't want to take just like the Disney Movie " MOANA" but the difference between TULSI&MOANA is that TULSI  doesn't   know what her way is (if you get the pun 😄) DEVI  is supposed to be TULSI'S  mom, but in the book this 2 characters don't show that mother-daughter relationship. I can't believe you lied to your own daughter about her paternity  just because you thought that was the right thing to do.  I really liked that TULSI  managed to find her own path after a long time of being micromana

📚 BOOK TITLE: MY SISTER, THE SERIAL KILLER  📚 AUTHOR: OYINKAN BRAITHWAITE 📚 GENRE: THRILLER  📚 THOUGHTS&OPINIONS: I particularly liked that the chapters were very short which made It very easy for me to read and flow with the story. For a book set in Nigeria the story seems out of place. Let's start with Korede . Korede  is a nurse who works at a local hospital and helps her sister cleans up crime scenes and dumps bodies, the book kept talking about their father and what he did to them (enough story was not told about their Father, maybe the book wanted mystery surrounding it)  Ayoola  the serial killer, any man you are with suddenly dies. Are these men always trying to hit you 🤷🏽‍♀️, are you always the VICTIM and how come this so called "VICTIM" is always with a weapon. WHY DO YOU KILL. WHAT IS YOUR MOTIVE (unfortunately this wasn't talked about in the book, Ayoola  just kills, she calls her ever loving sister to come clean her mess😑)  In Their

📚 AUTHOR: DESI STOWE  📚 BOOK TITLE: DONE  📚 GENRE:  Fictional Memoir || Women's Fiction 📚 NO OF PAGES: 245 PAGES  📚 PUB DATE: FEBRUARY 21,2024 📚 THOUGHTS&OPINIONS: #1 BOOKSIRENS ARC🎉🎉🎉🎉  I want to thank booksirens, the author and the publisher for granting me an ARC of this book🥰🥰. I read the blurb from booksirens and I just couldn't pass, I HAD TO READ WHY VIVIAN IS DONE! This book isn't all about romance but about FRIENDSHIPS too and why they are  important. When VIVIAN A recruiting specialist( first time I am hearing about this type of job) gets an assignment in Charleston to help a healthcare organization recruits their lost nurses, she begins to understand that her job is taking too much from her that she has little to give in other aspects of her life and nobody should have a job that takes too much from them even if it comes with a huge paycheck! The relationships between the characters in the book I love it so much. I loved this book and

📚 BOOK TITLE:  BEST, FIRST AND LAST  📚 AUTHOR: AMY T. MATTHEWS  📚 GENRE : GENERAL FICTION(ADULT) || ROMANCE || WOMEN'S FICTION  📚 PUB DATE: 25TH JUNE 2024 📚 THOUGHTS&OPINIONS: #7Netgalley read  This book is coming out in 2024 and when I saw it on Netgalley I couldn't just pass, I had to see what this book entails and I was definitely not expecting this much drama, in Owen's imagined voice " I don't do drama" 😂 So when a grandmother takes her daughter and her granddaughter on a great adventure to Peru, they didn't know that a lot of drama will unfold and their grand adventure will turn to a therapy session. So much secrets! So much crying!! So much drama!!! Bonnie the grandmother got married 3 times, became a widow 3 times and she is just seventy. Bonnie has a very sad backstory, I felt pity for her but I was  happy that everything she ever dreamed of having, she eventually got it. Sandra the daughter started dating an a$$hole  when she

LOLA SHONEYIN  (born Titilola Atinuke Alexandrah Shoneyin; 26 February 1974 in Ibadan, Nigeria) is a Nigerian poet and author who launched her debut novel,  The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives , in the UK in May 2010. Shoneyin has forged a reputation as an adventurous, humorous and outspoken poet (often classed in the feminist mould), having published three volumes of poetry. Her writing delves into themes related to female sexuality and the difficulties of domestic life in Africa. In April 2014 she was named on the Hay Festival's Africa39 list of 39 Sub-Saharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature. Lola won the PEN Award in America as well as the Ken Saro-Wiwa Award for prose in Nigeria.She was also on the list for the Orange Prize in the UK for her debut novel, The Secret of Baba Segi's Wives, in 2010.She lives in Lagos, Nigeria, where she runs the annual Aké Arts and Book Festival. In 2017, she

📚 AUTHOR : ALICE OSEMAN  📚 BOOK TITLE: LOVELESS 📚THOUGHTS&OPINIONS : I initially didn't want to review this book for reasons best known to me but every book is important irrespective of the themes in it. I like Alice's style of writing YA books because she potrays teenagers realistically. Loveless seemed a bit slow for me and I struggled to get into it but it was a beautiful book about FRIENDSHIPS. It also talked about varieties of sexual identities. 📚 RATINGS : 3 stars ⭐⭐⭐ 📚Quotes : "God. I just wanted to make a friend" "University was where most people made friendships that actually lasted "

Alice May Oseman (born 16 October 1994)  is an English author of young adult fiction. She secured her first publishing deal at 19 and had her first novel  Solitaire  published in 2014. Her novels include  Radio Silence ,  I Was Born for This, and  Loveless . She wrote and illustrated the webcomic  Heartstopper , which has been published as multiple graphic novels and which she adapted into a TV series, earning her a  BAFTA TV Award nomination and two Children's and Family Emmy Awards  as both a writer and producer. Her novels focus on contemporary teenage life in the UK and have received the  Inky Awards. You can check out more about Alice Oseman on her website:  https://aliceoseman.com/ Information gotten from wikipedia

Authors are amazing human beings and they definitely deserve to be celebrated, so today let's shine the spotlight on Hope Jahren .🎉👏 Anne Hope Jahren (born September 27, 1969) is an American geochemist and geobiologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, known for her work using stable isotope analysis to analyze fossil forests dating to the Eocene. She has won many prestigious awards in the field, including the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union. And she is also an Author😄 Her books include: 📚 The Story Of More 📚 Lab Girl 📚 The Best American Science And Nature Writing 📚 Adventures Of Mary Jane All information gotten from wikipedia