whether I can fit Our Violent Ends in there as well, because it does fit in with the theme that I'm going for. And so I think I might fit in Our Violent Ends in there as well. But yeah, this was a great book and I really enjoyed it. My third favourite book of NUMBER_TOKEN was a piece of translated fiction that I had read. And that is Here the Whole Time by Vitor Martins. This one. Okay. Actually first of all, Vitor Martins has another book coming out, that's been translated into English and I'm so freaking excited for that because I've been dying to have more Vitor Martins in my life and now we're getting more. We're getting more and I love that for me. I love that personally for me, but like everyone else. Yes. If you haven't read Here the Whole Time, it is such a great book. I think it's called like NUMBER_TOKEN Days. I think NUMBER_TOKEN Days is like the original title. Basically, Felipe is like having this crush on his neighbour and his neighbour basically has to stay at his house for NUMBER_TOKEN days whilst his mother goes away. And over the course of these NUMBER_TOKEN days, the boys start to like get to know each other and like things begin to happen Felipe learns to love himself and like who he is because he doesn't really think someone like him can be loved because he's a bigger boy. It's slightly emotional, but very feel-good because this novel basically reinforces the idea of self-love and like reinforces the idea of like finding like the things about you that you love and finding things about you that make you different. And just worthy of love is massively important. And that's why I really like this book. I found the relationship between Felipe and his neighbour to be very, very cute and like his mum as well is just such a good character. And yeah, I just really enjoyed it. And that the translation by Larissa Helena as well was just chef's kiss. My fourth favourite book for NUMBER_TOKEN is one that comes to like no surprise to anyone. And that is Ace of Spades by Faridah Abike-Iyimide. This one is the Illumicrate hardcover like English edition, which is like the only hardcover that they printed the English cover on. I'm like, I love that, it's just so cool. Basically this follows Devon and Chiamaka who are basically the only black students at a private academy. And it basically Aces starts to send the messages to expose all of their secrets and basically Devon and Chiamaka have to like team up to find out who Aces is and this novel definitely has twists and turns. I really enjoyed this, but purely because it detailed a lot of like the racism that people face within academic institutions. It's something that I'm quite passionate about in terms of like these subtle, but also the overt racism that can be experienced within academic institutions. It's very interesting. And I love how Ace of Spades tackles it. This is definitely like a novel that can satisfy your dark academia cravings. I think it was a well-written novel as well, and I just love the characters of Devon and Chiamaka as well. Like they're very like multifaceted and I just very much enjoyed reading this story and like the twists, the twists. And I
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