SLAY follows Kiera, a young black gamer who attends high school as your average teenager by day, but by night runs the expansive online RPG world known as SLAY. I have been waiting for months to yell about this book, and the time is finally here! As soon as I saw the cover art and read the synopsis, I knew this story would be everything I ever wanted. Who can you trust and who can you betray is the name of this novel’s game, and the twisting turns of a girl discovering herself and hell-bent on saving her friend make this book the perfect prelude to autumn. Things get even trickier when Alice's best friend gets into a car accident, causing Alice to hone her skills in an alternate London called the Rookery, where her life is in danger at every turn. More specifically, that she's an aviarist, someone who can see magical birds called nightjars, which guard each human’s soul. Alice always seems to be surrounded by birds, and yet she has no idea why, until a man called Crowley tells her that she's special. That's why I am so excited for The Nightjar, Deborah Hewitt's latest work, which will make you think about life, death, and even birds in a whole new light. If you're at all like me, your daydreams often revolve around suddenly becoming privy to a world behind the one we already see, living with us but not among us.
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