Hidden Gems: Books that aren't popular but worth reading.

 

These books might not be popular , or best sellers , but they are beautifully written and worth reading, totally!

6. The Girl in the Video: in this novella , Michael David Wilson merges horror, mystery and tech into this novella. It is a short read, and also an interesting read.

5. Conspiracy in the Capitol: A sweet second chance romance. It also has some mystery to it. It is the sequel to her first book, Live in the Capitol.

4. Home Home: a depressed Trinidadian teenager is sent by her mother to Canada to live with her lesbian aunt, she feels lonely and in exile. But with the help of her aunt, a gorgeous-looking boy, and her Skyping best friend ‘back home’, she begins to accept her new family and her illness. Then her mother arrives and threatens to take her back to Trinidad. Where then is home?

3. Mayhem: The uocoming book, from the acclaimed author of This Raging Light and But Then I Came Back, Estelle Laure offers a riveting and complex story. Set in 1987, the story centres around Mayhem a Brayburn. 

Roxy and Mayhem flee Lyle's house, one day when Kyle hurts Mayhem. Even though Roxy ,Mayhem's mother had been enduring battering from Lyle, touching Mayhem is the straw that breaks the camel's back. They travel down to Santa Maria, their hometown, where Mayhem discovers her magical identity. 

2. Summer at sea: Summer at sea will make you laugh and "awwn"!

   A twenty-six years old, living with her anxiety-ridden parents, and unwillingly booked by her brother on a weeklong cruise to Bermuda. Despite the nightmare of being trapped aboard a cruise ship with Mom and Dad, Summer sees a rare opportunity to fulfill The Prophecy – her mother’s declaration that she will live at home until she gets married. With two thousand passengers onboard, at least one of them must be husband material, right?

The only problem is Graham Blenderman – her brother’s best friend who is joining them for the week, in all of his tall, blonde, extroverted glory. Graham doesn’t believe Summer needs a husband in order to break free from her parents. He thinks she just needs a little bit of nerve. And to Summer’s introverted horror, he’s willing to spend the entire week proving that he’s right. 

1.The Opposite House:is a beautiful book written by British author, Helen Oyeyemi. Her unique beautiful style of writing, will make you cry! Helen Oyeyemi explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women and their search for the truth about faith and identity.

   Maja was five years old when her black Cuban family emigrated from the Caribbean to London. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja is a singer, in love with Aaron, pregnant, and haunted by what she calls “her Cuba.” Growing up in London, she has struggled to negotiate her history and the sense that speaking Spanish or English made her less of a black girl. But she is unable to find herself in the Ewe, Igbo, or Akum of her roots. It seems all that’s left is silence.

    On the other side of the reality wall, Yemaya Saramagua, a Santeria emissary, lives in a somewhere house with two doors: one opening to London, the other to Lagos. Yemaya is troubled by the ease with which her fellow emissaries have disguised themselves behind the personas of saints and by her inability to recognize them.