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  A few months ago, I went to London for something, and I got to go to Gay’s the Word for the first time. Since then, I have been back to London for something else and maybe I did go back to Gay’s the Word, and maybe I did buy this book, Legend of the White Snake by Sher Lee, when I was there. I was in the shop, staring at the book, seeing that it was written by Sher Lee and thinking that the name seemed familiar. Turns out, Lee was the one who wrote Fake Dates and Mooncakes that I loved earlier this year. Anyway, the blurb says that when Prince Xian was a boy, a white snake bit his mother and condemned her to a slow, painful death. The only known cure is an antidote created from the rare white snake itself. Desperate, Xian is determined to capture one himself and cure his mother. Soon, he encounters an enigmatic but beautiful stable boy name Zhen, and the two are immediately drawn to each other. But Zhen might just be the human embodiment of the white snake Xian is hunting. A...

Today I’m talking about Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas, the sequel to The Sunbearer Trials . Anyway, the blurb says that Teo never thought he could be a hero. Now, he doesn’t have a choice. After Teo refused to sacrifice a fellow semidios during the Sunbearer Trials, the world plunged into a perpetual night. The Obsidian gods have been released from their prison, and chaos and destruction are wreaking havoc on Reino Del Sol. Teo, his crush, Aurelio, and his best friend, Niya, must journey to the dark wilderness of Los Restos and battle vicious monsters. Can they rescue the captured semidioses, retrieve the Sol Stone, and restore order to the world before it’s too late? Do I remember when the prequel came out? No, I do not, but I remember the plot being that Teo ended up competing in The Sunbearer Trials and that the winner, or the loser, of the trials was going to be sacrificed to keep the world safe, but then he refused to do it and cast the world into darkness. I will say, I no...