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Frankly in Love

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 25 July 202025 July 2020 in Fiction, Realistic, Reviews

Our main character Frank Li calls himself a Limbo, his term for all the Korean-American kids who feel trapped between their parents’ traditional expectations and their Southern California environment. This internal conflict can be found in this one rule Frank’s parents have made up: date a Korean. Which proves to be impossible when Frank Li falls for Brit Means, his beautiful and smart and white classmate. Fortunately, Joy Song – a fellow Limbo – struggles with the same, and the two of them come up with the perfect plan to cover their interracial romances.

Far from the tree

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 25 September 20193 November 2019 in Fiction, LGBTQ+, Reviews

In this book we first meet Grace, a girl that doesn’t really seem to know how to pick up her normal life again after a teen-pregnancy. Being adopted herself, it is hard for her to let her own daughter go. This is why she decides it is time for her to meet her biological family …

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