Will Do Magic for Small Change
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"Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But at 5'10" and 180 pounds, she's theatrically challenged. Her family life is a tangle of mystery and deadly secrets, and nobody is telling Cinnamon the whole truth. Before her older brother died, he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderer, a tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform in Paris and at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. The Chronicles may be magic or alien science, but the story is definitely connected to Cinnamon's family secrets. When an act of violence wounds her family, Cinnamon and her theatre squad determine to solve the mysteries and bring her worlds together. "--Publisher website.
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2 primary books#1 in Cinnamon Jones
Cinnamon Jones is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Andrea Hairston.
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3.5 stars!!!
The concept of this book had me instantly interested but it kind of fell flat for me. I really enjoyed the chapters following the main character, a queer woman in the 1980s, but was less interested in the chapters following the “alien” (not sure that's what the character was, but it surely seemed like it). I enjoyed the overall book-within-a-book concept but I those chapters just pulled me out of the part of the story I was enjoying. I will say, this is a very light SciFi which was nice since I have a hard time reading very intense SciFi. The audiobook narator did a very good job and I was never confused about which POV I was following.
Thank you to RB Media, Recorded Books, and NetGalley for providing me with an Audiobook copy to review.
