Saturday, June 07, 2025

2025 book 97

 Vivian Valentine’s Beneath Strange Lights

This is set in 1954 and centers on a girl who’s been raised in a government facility due to her mysterious abilities, but now that she’s almost 18, she’s being allowed more freedom, and befriends a couple of girls in town (sidebar: this book is super queer, the protagonist is trans and one of the girls is her love interest). But they know a dude who’s working on a mysterious device and it’s bad or whatever, and they have to figure out what’s going on! I liked the friendships between the characters, though the romance was REALLY rushed, and the plot didn’t totally work for me. Too much fictional math/science/alien babbling. I might check out the next in this series and see how it is. B.

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