Xiaolong and Cuddle are your two Pond friends that read and review books!

Xiaolong, pink axolotl and Keeper of the Pond, and Cuddle, the Pond’s resident and cuddliest otter, love to read books! In fact, reading books and sharing their thoughts on them is a powerful form of magic at the Pond.

That’s why whenever you see them, they will most likely have a book review that they want to share with you, where they will tell you all about their latest read and their thoughts about them.

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View book reviews, sorted by recommendation

Review Count: 65

A

• A Match Made in Mehendi – Nandini Bajpai
• A River of Stars – Vanessa Hua
• A Spark of White Fire – Sangu Mandanna
• A Thousand Beginnings and Endings – Elsie Chapman and Ellen Oh (editors)
• A Thousand Fires – Shannon Price
• An Unkindness of Ghosts – Rivers Solomon
• The Astonishing Colour of After – Emily X.R. Pan
• Autoboyography – Christina Lauren

B

• The Best Lies – Sarah Lyu
• The Black Veins – Ashia Monet
• The Bromance Book Club – Lyssa Kay Adams

C

• Check, Please! Book 1: Hockey – Ngozi Ukazu
• Color Outside the Lines – Sangu Mandanna

D

• Darius the Great Is Not Okay – Adib Khorram
• Dragon Pearl – Yoon Ha Lee
• The Dragon Warrior – Katie Zhao

E

• Eliza and Her Monsters – Francesca Zappia
• Exit West – Mohsim Hamid 

F

• The Fifth Season – N.K. Jemisin
• Final Draft – Riley Redgate
• The Flatshare – Beth O’Leary
• Forest of a Thousand Lanterns – Julie C. Dao
• Frankly in Love – David Yoon
• Fresh Ink: An Anthology – Lamar Giles (editor)
• Front Desk – Kelly Yang
• Full Disclosure – Camryn Garrett

G

• Girls of Paper and Fire – Natasha Ngan

H

• Hungry Hearts – Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond (editors)

I

• Ignite the Stars – Maura Milan
• If It Makes You Happy – Claire Kann
• Internment – Samira Ahmed
• The Iron Will of Genie Lo by F.C. Yee

J

• Jade City – Fonda Lee
• Jade War – Fonda Lee

K

• Kingdom of the Blazing Phoenix – Julie C. Dao

L

• Lock Every Door – Riley Sager

M

• Magic Ramen: The Story of Momofuku Ando – Andrea Wang
• Moonstruck Vol 1 – Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle
• More to the Story – Hena Khan

N

• Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune – Roselle Lim
• Not Your Backup – C.B. Lee

O

• On The Edge of Gone – Corinne Duyvis
• Opposite of Always – Justin A. Reynolds
• Other Words for Home – Jasmine Warga

P

• Patron Saints of Nothing – Randy Ribay
• Pie in the Sky – Remy Lai
• The Poet X – Elizabeth Acevedo
• The Proposal – Jasmine Guillory

R

• Red, White, and Royal Blue – Casey McQuiston
• The Rise of Kyoshi – F.C. Yee
• Ruse – Cindy Pon

S

• Sadie – Courtney Summers
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo – Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Soft on Soft – Em Ali
• Speaking of Summer – Kalisha Buckhanon
• The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling – Wai Chim

T

• This Time Will Be Different – Misa Suguira
• Trail of Lightning – Rebecca Roanhorse

U

• Underdog – Tobias Madden

W

• Want – Cindy Pon
• We Are Totally Normal – Rahul Kanakia
• We Hunt the Flame – Hafsah Faizal
• The Weight of Our Sky – Hanna Alkaf
• The Wedding Party – Jasmine Guillory
• With the Fire on High – Elizabeth Acevedo
• Written in the Stars – Aisha Saeed