Allow Me To Introduce Myself by Onyi Nwabineli

 Hello my lovely readers!

I've been reading a lot more fiction than anticipated this year! Here's another novel that surprised me. Let's get into it.

SYNOPSIS
Ever since she was a child, Anuri’s life was chronicled and monetized by her influencer stepmother. Now an adult, she’s finally broken free. But when her stepmother starts preying on her young half sister, Anuri decides she must stop the cycle of abuse.

The House of Broken Bricks by Fiona Williams

 Hello my lovely readers!

I came across this on Libby and Hoopla and decided to randomly give it a listen. Let's get into it!

SYNOPSIS
Tess is a Londoner whose relationship with Richard transports her from a Jamaican diaspora in the city to the English countryside, where predatory birds hover over fields, buses run twice a day, neighbors barter honey for cider, and no one looks like her.

As Tess and Richard settle in, the dramatic arrival of their fraternal twins—one who presents as black and the other as white—recasts the family dynamic, stirring up complicated feelings and questions of belonging. Tess yearns for the comforting chaos of life as it once was, instead of Max and Sonny tracking dirt through the kitchen where cooking Caribbean food becomes her sole comfort. And Richard obsesses over getting his crops planted rather than deal with the conversation he cannot bear to have.

Sonny knows that something is stirring and as the seasons change and the cracks let in more light, the family might just be able to start to heal.