![]() ![]() Unlike Joe Biden, Amari doesn’t faint on discovering the strange things going on behind the scenes of the modern world. But one day she gets an invitation – to the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs… She’s getting bullied at school for being a Scholarship kid with a difficult home life. Except when the novel begins, Quinton’s already been missing for six months – perhaps because of some mysterious business he’s been involved with – and Amari is probably the only person who still believes he’s alive. In that case, somewhere out in the Rosewood Projects, Amari lives an unassuming life with her nursing assistant mother, and Quinton, the older brother she hero-worships. ![]() It really wouldn’t come as a surprise: this is a good old-fashioned slice of escapism, but it also feels decidedly contemporary. ![]() Perhaps that means Amari and the Night Brothers is taking place now, in January 2021, the very month it’s being published. The latest President of the United States was only just sworn in this week, but I was delighted to see him make a cameo appearance in the pages of this new kids’ book a headline in ‘Rumours & Whispers’ magazine reading, “Newly elected US President faints at first Supernatural Affairs briefing”. ![]()
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