A Phoenix First Must Burn

Locations
Call Number: Teen Fiction / Phoenix, Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Caldwell, Patrice
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Teen, 1st Floor 4-week checkout	Teen Fiction / Phoenix	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Teen Books 4-week checkout	Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Caldwell, Patrice	4-week checkout	On Shelf

When life hands you a lemon fruitbomb / Amerie -- Gilded / Elizabeth Acevedo -- Wherein Abigail Fields recalls her first death and, subsequently, her best life / Rebecca Roanhorse -- The rules of the land / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- A hagiography of starlight / Somaiya Daud -- Melie / Justina Ireland -- The Goddess provides / L. L. McKinney -- Hearts turned to ash / Dhonielle Clayton -- Letting the right one in / Patrice Caldwell -- Tender-headed / Danny Lore -- Kiss the sun / Ibi Zoboi -- The actress / Danielle Paige -- The curse of love / Ashley Woodfolk -- All the time in the world / Charlotte Nicole Davis -- The witch's skin / Karen Strong -- Sequence / J. Marcelle Corrie.
Black girls, including gender non-conforming individuals, star in this collection of sixteen stories of fantasy, science fiction, and magic.

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I just can't do short stories, personally submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 18, 2021, 10:39pm Books of short stories make me crazy. It’s just a personal thing. I read to immerse in a storyline, and short stories almost always leave me hanging, wanting more, even when the stories themselves are complete.

I also never know how to write their reviews. A few of the stories I deeply loved, and wish would be turned into novels. Several of the stories felt incredibly juvenile and had characters, lines, or plots that were ridiculous or simplistic. But which were which? How would I know… it’s a book of short stories, and they all blend together by the end.

Meh. Give me a novel any day.