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Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf
“But life, like Scrabble, is like that—you get the rack you get, and you just have to figure out how to make do.” Queen of the Tiles is an entertaining mystery romp that belongs to that subgenre of YA books that combines a whodunnit type of storyline with the kind of teen dynamics at play…
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THE WEIGHT OF OUR SKY: BOOK REVIEW
The Weight of Our Sky by Hanna Alkaf ★★★✰✰ 3 of 5 stars This is a promising YA debut. While there were a few elements that stopped me from being fully ‘immersed’ by the story and its characters, first I want to praise Alkaf’s depiction of OCD. The story follows Melati Ahmad who is a…