Valerie Zhang
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Valerie is sixteen. She attends a boarding school near Boston, where she writes, reads, and attempts to be a studious student. She's too lazy to write the rest of this bio, so follow her on Twitter @torquoiseworld because shameless self-promotion is alive and thriving!

Book Review: ‘The Winter People’ by Rebekah L. Purdy

Love triangles are so 2008. In addition, having one love interest is overdone too. The only author who seems to understand this development is Rebekah L. Purdy. That’s why she implemented a love square, and although it wasn’t done very…

Book Review: ‘Bombay Blues’ by Tanuja Desai Hidier

My first thought regarding Bombay Blues had to do with the alliteration of the title itself. Geeky, I know, but in my defense, it’s some pretty wicked alliteration! Bombay Blues is the sequel to acclaimed Born Confused, a novel about identity, culture,…

Book Review: ‘Faces of the Dead’ by Suzanne Weyn

As a typical teenager, I hate something that rhymes with mystery. If you guessed the word “history,” you guessed correctly. That being said, aside from graded assignments and APUSH, I still find the events from the past interesting. One of…

Book Review: ‘Feuds’ by Avery Hastings

Dystopians are so 2008. Having read way too many dystopian novels in the past few years, I’ve been avoiding that genre with a passion. Imagine my surprise when I became intrigued by Feuds – even the gods above could not have…

Book Review: ‘Glitch’ by Brenda Pandos

Imagine a world where all the blue-eyed people are sterilized and thought to be inferior. Kind of crazy, especially given the elevation today’s society apparently gives to blonde-haired, blue-eyed people. Well, if this idea seems interesting, Glitch is the book…

Book Review: ‘Forget Me’ by K. A. Harrington

Forget chick-lit. Forget girls falling in love with celebrities. Forget dystopian novels. In fact, Forget Me. Not only do I love the fact that it’s incredibly easy to create an intro for Forget Me, but I also love the book…

Book Review: ‘Just Call My Name’ by Holly Goldberg Sloan

I’ve fallen in lust with Just Call My Name‘s beautiful, breathtaking cover. Yes, fallen in lust, and fallen in love as well, I guess. I love how big the title is in proportion to the entire cover. And while it…