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I liked this one a lot! 📚💕 It is the first Rick Riordan Presents book that is aimed for a YA audience rather than a middle grade!

It was just too gorgeous out today, I couldn't resist taking a bookish walk after work! 🥰💕📚🌿

Finally sitting down to relax with my book and some yummy shawarma! 😋📚�

I opened my OwlCrate and found this book with a pretty cover. But I thought it wasn‘t the coolest OC cover I‘ve seen.

And then I opened it and found this exquisite map. Because all books are better with maps. And this is a really cool one.

And the I took the dust jacket off to find an embossed cover and an illustration on the interior dust jacket!

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This was an amazingly intense book you don‘t want to put down. These two teens find themselves as their displaced island communities initiated gods. I like how they basically retaught their community about their lost history. Loved the connections between music and healing. And with creation and destruction. What you think doesn‘t connect does stronger than ever. Really enjoyed this story. Nice to read so much Spanish too.
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And we never had slavery, a point the elders will bring up again and again when arguing with other island folk. But really, the bar is so low; like, wow, none of our founders owned another human! Congrats! No one should get gold stars for the bare minimum, if you ask me.

Unsurprisingly, the first YA book from the Rick Riordan Presents imprint is a winning adventure with a sunken island, ancient secrets, baddies, battles, pirates & ALL the things you expect from one of these books. Drawing inspiration from his Cuban and Jewish heritage, Older has created a vibrant, vividly realized world you can‘t help but want to visit…if you knew you would survive such a trip. First in a new series & a fun read. On sale 5/3/22.

Monday morning train reading…

I love that Rick Riordan uses his platform and clout for good—his Rick Riordan Presents imprint is fabulous and gives voice to authors & stories that might otherwise have a harder time getting into our hands. I‘m very excited to start this one, the imprint‘s first YA book.