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  Review by Ronica Wahi Honeycake: A Family of Spices By Medea Kalantar First published: February 22, 2019, Tellwell Talent. Kindle Edition Pages: 23. ASIN: B08FF3QHYV This is Book 1 of the Honeycake book series, designed to entertain and educate little kids. The grandmother – who in character and as the illustrated figure is Medea Kalantar herself – teaches her granddaughter, Nala, about her multicultural background while showing her how to bake a delicious honey cake. As Nala learns from her grandma, each ingredient from some different part of the world represents a different family member of the multicultural family - “A Family of Spices”. The recipe is delicious because of its wonderful ingredients and the generous mix of love; the granddaughter – one of Kalantar’s “Honeycakes” – thus learns how to bake a honey cake and why she is one. Not only for a kid from a multicultural background but also for any other kid, Honeycake: A Family of Spices carries an essent...

Review by Ronica Wahi Missing: Gone but not Forgotten By Kathleen Walls First published: October 20, 2020, Global Authors Publications. Kindle Edition Pages: 150. ASIN: B08JCTTFFG Missing: Gone but not Forgotten by Kathleen Walls is a tale of a little girl – named Starr Shatner - who goes missing and is not found. As the cover itself says, it is “Based on an actual unsolved case”; this actual case was of a girl who went missing the same year as Starr here, i.e., 2009, and was neither found nor had justice. The Dedication says, “To all the children who have gone missing and are never found.” It is of importance indeed that Walls has written this book – for it speaks of the tragedy of any kid who suffers for no fault of his/her own and the tragedy of those who love that kid. Without being dramatic at any point, it narrates simply the sequence of events as the long-stretching investigation takes place. One of the writer’s achievements is that without talking at great len...

Review by Ronica Wahi Junction: Time’s Up (Junction Trilogy Book 3) By L.A. Evans First published: December 12, 2021, Elizabeth Guttridge. Kindle Edition Pages: 454. ASIN: B09N2HWQPB Three Cheers for L.A. Evans for completing her Junction Trilogy in quick time and for completing it really well! The final book – Junction: Time’s Up ­ – is, as the title suggests, a thrilling chase for resolution. The difficult and dark times continue for the protagonists before hope-that-can-last is finally glimpsed. As Book 2’s end had indicated, the twists and turns in the lives of Zoe and Aisha aren’t over. The two come together to seek answers for what fate has dealt them, and for whether they can ever set things right. While in Book 1, the reader sees things from the eyes and perspectives of Aisha and in Book 2, from those of Zoe, in Junction: Time’s Up , the point of view alternates between that of Aisha and Zoe with each chapter. Review on "Junction: Time's Ticking...