Jordyn Baker

Oct 27, 2024 | emporiagazette.com | Jordyn Baker

“I Feel Awful, Thanks” by Lara Pickle, Oni Press, March 2024, $8.02Joana has dragons inside her. Can she tame them before they burn her life down? Joana is a young witch who secured her dream job with a coven in London, her favorite city, where she can dedicate herself to creating potions, her favorite activity! However, she will soon discover the reality of city life is not so idyllic. Finding a flat is an ordeal, her “dream job” is stressful, and she’s totally alone.

Aug 25, 2024 | emporiagazette.com | Mariko Tamaki |Jordyn Baker

“Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me” by Mariko Tamaki, First Second, May 2019, $16.00. All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together was the best one of Freddy’s life, but nothing’s made sense since. Laura Dean is popular, and SO CUTE…but she can be really thoughtless, even mean. Their on-again, off-again relationship has Freddy’s head spinning — and Freddy’s friends can’t understand why she keeps going back.

May 4, 2024 | emporiagazette.com | Jordyn Baker

Reviewed by Jordyn Baker“Meet Me in the Fourth Dimension” by Rita Feinstein, Page Street YA, March 2024, $17.43NASA has assured everyone the passage of rogue planet Malachite will be safe, but Crosby’s been getting other messages-from a fortune teller and Malachite truther message boards. And now she believes that Malachite will kill everyone who doesn’t ascend to the fourth dimension-a higher plane that transcends physicality.

Feb 3, 2024 | emporiagazette.com | Jordyn Baker

Reviewed by Jordyn Baker“Confetti Realms” by Nadia Shammas, Maverick, October 2023, $14.39On Halloween night, when the moon is full, teenagers get up to mischief. But when an encounter with a giant, sentient puppet in a graveyard sends five teens to a mysterious dimension called the Confetti Realms, they must overcome obstacles in their own friendships — and collect the debted teeth owed to the puppet — in order to make their way home.

Aug 26, 2023 | emporiagazette.com | Jordyn Baker

Reviewed by Jordyn Baker“The Ritual” by Shantel Tessier, Independently Published, November 2021, $25.84I VOW. YOU VOW. WE VOW. Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one. People think growing up with money is freeing, but I promise you it’s not.