671 reviews for:

The Secret World of Maggie Grey

Granger

4.35 AVERAGE

rehashwithrae's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

diamond_catlin's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

beenicole27's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

afaithh's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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A-FREAKING-MAZING! BEST BOOK I EVER READ! CANT WAIT TO READ BOOK 2 & 3

esandmir's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

ashesanddaggers's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

cicis_library's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous challenging funny mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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this book was gooooodddd 😏 i gasped, laughed, cried, and screamed. many questions were had and answered, but of course we are left in a cliffie with this first book. it leaves us wanting to know more around the mysteries of the first family, and explained why that's the second book. 
the drama was sooo there and left me wanting to be apart of this world. it was so young and black with a touch of mythical weaved into the culture. i will be back for the next one! 

biblioluva's review against another edition

4.0

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This is a good book for people who are not familiar with fantasy and love urban fiction. There is a ton of character build up but was very interesting 3.5⭐️overall

tonimreads's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

lylesgirl2020's review against another edition

5.0

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DCU, the Underground, where the magic is melanated & the rules hit different!

“This the Underground. We don’t move like the rest of the world…”
And trust—they don’t.

A MAGICAL HBCU by Granger (yes, Desiree herself)? Oh, I’m locked in! If you know her pen, you already know she don’t write regular. She writes real-deal, creative, Black AF stories—and Drew Collins University is no exception.

Now lemme tell you—DCU is LITERALLY underground, right beneath ATL. That lil’ ATL Easter egg? Genius. If you know about “The Underground” back in the day, this hit different. Above ground: regular Black folks. But below? It’s a whole hidden world full of vamps, wolves, witches, sirens... and my man Quan (I love him fr).

What starts off as Maggie spilling tea from her grandma turns into a whole wild ride of magic, growth, and glow-ups. She ends up at DCU with her crew, tryna figure out who she is and where she belongs—and babyyyy, the journey is fire.

Granger snapped with this one. She built a whole universe, and if you peep the cameos from her other books? Chef’s kiss. We love a connected universe.

And the way she ended this? CLIFFHANGER had me ready to throw my Kindle. Then boom—she hit us with an author note that got me staring at the ceiling like… “Wait, WHO TF DID IT??”