

Villanueva’s new Middle Grade novel is the perfect book to launch myself back into reading MG. However, I haven’t read many of them since I started back reading again last year. I have always loved Middle Grade books and I still love them so much to this day. Please check out the rest of the Tour Schedule here! Villanueva, and Scholastic Press for gifting me an ARC of this novel. Thank you immensely to TBR and Beyond Tours, author Gail D. Villanueva that asks whether it’s ever okay to take away someone’s free will. Magic and reality mingle in this brilliant new middle-grade novel by Gail D. The magic demands payment, and it is about to come for Jolina in the form of a powerful storm… Controlling another person’s ability to love-or hate-will certainly have consequences.

In fact, Claudine doesn’t just stop bullying Jolina-now she wants to be Jolina’s BFF, and does everything and anything Jolina asks.īut magic comes with a cost, and bad intentions beget bad returns. The love potion conquers Claudine’s hateful nature.

Jolina brews a batch of gayuma, a powerful love potion.Īnd it works. Though Jolina knows she’s still in-training to use her grandfather’s arbularyo magic, she sneaks into his potions lab to get her revenge. Jolina can’t take Claudine’s bullying any longer! The taunts and teasing are too much. Can a bully be defeated by a magical love potion?
