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January Reads

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1. Solitaire by Alice Oseman Solitaire follows sad, introverted Tori Spring (sister of Charlie Spring - from the Heartstopper series) who is going through a mental health crisis (please read the trigger warnings of this book before you pick it up:  https://aliceoseman.com/extras/content-warnings/ ), while simultaneously dealing with an anonymous online group targeting her school, with pranks that get more extreme by the day. This book was everything. It broke me and somehow managed to put all the pieces back together. I felt understood and seen (and I think it's a really powerful thing when books can make you feel that way). Definitely hard to read sometimes (it is much darker than the Heartstopper series) - but Alice Oseman has managed to craft a world filled with real, hurt, and healing people, and I will forever love reading about it.  I was absolutely fascinated with Tori and the way her character is so carefully crafted - you feel like you know her from the very first cha...