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Rating: 2.5 stars. As I Descended was a decent Macbeth retelling, if a bit too loose. As I Descended is about Maria, a girl who is competing for a scholarship against Delilah, who she believes doesn't deserve it. Maria's secret girlfriend, Lily, thinks so too and after they have a seance, the girls decide to take matters into their own hands and try to reveal the true nature of Delilah. But when murder results, they start to question whether it was a good idea. I really only liked this book because of the similarities to Macbeth. Even then, it's hard to like it because it was only loosely based on the play.  I picked up this audiobook because I heard great things about how diverse it was. I do have to agree that As I Descended did have quite a bit of diversity and did it well. I think my favourite character in this book was Matteo. I have no idea if he's supposed to resemble a character from the Shakespearean play, but I liked him the best; he was the most s...

Rating: 3.5 stars. This book was so insanely emotional for me. It could be that this was my first audiobook experience but oh my gosh, this book was intense. I'm so surprised that more people who read diverse books haven't read None of the Above yet! None of the Above is about Kristin, a hurdler in high school. Her mother died of cervical cancer when she was a young girl and now lives alone with father. When Kristin takes her relationship with her boyfriend to the next level on homecoming night, she experiences enough pain that she goes to the doctor. But what she finds out isn't what she was expecting: she is intersex, which means that she looks like a girl, but she has boy parts. This book follows Kristin as she struggles with her identity now that her gender is put into question and is found out by her classmates.  I was quite happy to find that one of the characters of this book has the name Faith. I'm a Faith and it's quite hard to find books ...