Candy Bunny Reader

  Another cute romance manga I am kinda late to the party on!  The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity by Saka Mikami follows Rintaro, a boy who goes to a rather lowly public high school. The school is right next to a prestigious all-girls private high school. At Rintaro's family bakery, a girl who frequents there to eat their delicious cake is a girl named Kaoruko. Rintaro starts talking to Kaoruko and they hit it off pretty well, and they find themselves falling in love with each other. However, she goes to the prestigious all girls high school, and Rintaro wonders if they can even keep seeing each other if their respective friend groups have tension with each other since they come from rival high schools. The two teenagers find a way to make it work! I've only read the first volume so far but I am already obsessed. It's just like how I felt when I started A Sign of Affection (speaking of which, I need to read the second omnibus for that!). I've just really been cr...

Wow! This was awesome! I found a new favorite YA sapphic comtemporary book! The Dos and Donuts of Love by Adiba Jaigirdar is about Shireen, who signs up to be a part of this new reality tv show that will feature teenage bakers from all over Ireland in baking competitions. Aside from her love of baking, Shireen is also entering for the show to help save her parent's donut shop, if she wins the prize money. But then, she finds out her ex-girlfriend Christina Huang (who usually goes by Chris) is in the show, too! Things get super awkward when the host and judges (which includes Shireen's favorite celebrity chef, Indian-Irish Padma Bollywood) pair them up for the first couple of rounds. At the same time, Shireen becomes friends and starts to get close to one of the other contestants, a girl named Niamh. But then Shireen discovers things about Chris and later Niamh that'll change everything. Shireen and Chris also have to deal with a lot racist tweets on Twitter about them in t...

  Cake Pop Crush by Suzanne Nelson is a middle grade book that I bought back in middle school at a Scholastic Book Fair in 2012, when I was in middle school. That was 10 years ago! Only now did I decided to start reading it. And boy, was it a great idea! I'm glad I never gave the book away. Cake Pop Crush is about a girl named Alicia Ramirez whose family owns a small, old-fashioned bakery called Say it with Flour. Out of all the bakery items you can think of, Ali likes to bake cake pops, inspired heavily by her favorite celebrity baker, Renata DaLuca. Her family's bakery Say it with Flour has fallen under hard times recently, but they get even more competition when a popular coffee chain opens across the street from them, called Perk Up. Ali and her friends and family have to think up creative ways to save the business from falling under, usually involving Ali selling her cake pops. At the same time, Ali butts heads with the son of the owner/CEO of Perk Up, named Dane. But as ...