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Review of SOLO

Cover art taken from  http://kwamealexander.com/solo/ . How do you move forward when everything in your life is pulling you back? How do you establish your own identity if you don’t know who you are? These are just two of the issues that Blade is grappling with as he tries to separate himself from his father, a faded rock star in a downward spiral of addiction and bad publicity. The one person who makes him feel safe is his girlfriend, Chapel, but her strict Christian father forbids her from seeing Blade, thanks to his father’s notoriety. Blade’s already fragile world is shattered when Chapel dumps him and he discovers a family secret. Reeling from shock and heartbreak, he sets out on a journey to Ghana to find the answers he needs and learn how to move forward. The relationships he forges there will teach him about unconditional love, true happiness, and the meaning of family. “It’s as awkward as things can get. But I hear grace can feel that way at first.” – ...

Review of ALEX & ELIZA

Cover art taken from  http://melissa-delacruz.com/book/alex-and-eliza/ . Miss Elizabeth Schuyler is American nobility – descended from two of the most prominent New York families, she is an intelligent, beautiful, and spirited young woman. The dashing Colonel Alexander Hamilton is General Washington’s most trusted aide de camp, but he comes from nothing. He is immediately smitten with Eliza, but his role in her father’s court martial for the loss of Fort Ticonderoga thwarts any possibility of romance between the pair until their paths cross again two years later. As romance finally blooms between Alex and Eliza, Eliza discovers that her family’s fortune has been lost, and her parents are insisting on a marriage to the boorish son of New Jersey’s wealthy and powerful governor. Will the Schuyler family’s financial woes keep Alex and Eliza apart, or will love find a way? “There are families whose greatness lies in their past, and in their legacies… That is a quality much to be...